Robin of Locksley

Two-outlaw duel: grab loot tiles with a knight's move, sell them for gold and race your bard round the fame track.

2 players
25–40 min
2 / 5 · Light

Set up the game

0 of 6 steps

Tick each step as you complete it.

1Sort the components: 60 loot tiles, 16 small fame tiles, 8 large corner tiles, two Robins and two Bards in player colours, and the race track around the grid.
Game setup
2Shuffle the loot tiles gold side up and build a 5x5 grid. The youngest player takes one corner tile and the other player takes the opposite corner. Each flips theirs to the gold side and keeps it as starting gold.
Loot tiles
3Put each Robin in one of the now empty corners. The rest of the loot tiles, gold side up, form the draw pile, with room beside it for the discard pile.
Grid, draw pile and discard
4Set up the fame corners: "The Beginning" and "Long Live the King" go together in one corner, with the start tile in the inner corner. Shuffle the other corners and place three in the remaining corners; use the day tiles in your first game.
Start and goal tiles
5Shuffle the small fame tiles and place three between every two corners. In your first game use the day tiles. These are the tasks that let you advance without paying gold.
Fame tiles on the track
6Place each Bard beside the start tile in its colour. Check that each player has a Robin in a corner, a Bard at the start and their starting gold.
Bards

What it is about

Robin of Locksley runs on two rhythms that feed each other: the Robin's jump decides which tiles you get, and those tiles decide how far your Bard can run. Neither board works alone.

The grid is imperfect information: empty spaces refill at random, so plans are always two turns deep. The track, by contrast, is pure arithmetic: every coin is a space and every met task is a free space.

Winning needs either a lap or two laps plus four coins in hand. Both conditions reward the same thing: not spending your gold at the last moment without having set up the position.

BGG page Official rulebook

Source note

The manual covers setup, the L-shaped move, selling collections, the fame track and the ending. Fame tiles carry their own task text.

EN rulebook (Wyrmgold, 2019) · Reviewed: 23 Oct 2026