Base price: $35.
1 - 4 players.
Play time: 20 - 30 minutes.
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Logged plays: 2
Full disclosure: A review copy of Dice Miner was provided by Atlas Games.
Alright, so this might be the closest I've gotten to being ahead on reviews in months, which is extremely exciting. Granted, I'm about to blow it all up and go to BGG.CON and then PAX Unplugged and then visit my family and then it's the holidays, so this is but a fleeting emotion, but boy howdy is it good while it's fleeting. You gotta appreciate the moments while you have them. I've had some weird personal stuff that I'll be vague about come up recently that's taken up a ton of my attention. Nothing bad, just, the kind of thing that takes up your attention for a while. So my mind's been elsewhere other than board games lately. It happens. But in the meantime, there's always more games to write about, so let's talk about Dice Miner!
In Dice Miner, after years of peace, the dragons have returned to do dragon stuff like immolating people you know and like, so you need to turn to the mines to get what you need to stop them. Whether it's magic for magic reasons or treasure for treasure reasons or beer for pretty obvious reasons, there are a whole lot of dwarves descending on the mine and only so much mine to go around. Naturally, there's a perfectly reasonable ordering to all of this, so you'll collectively start at the top and work your way down, adding the items you find within to your hoard. Over three rounds, you'll do this, score points, and then refill the mine to try again and see what you can dig up. The challenge isn't just in what you've taken; it's that what you take can get rerolled between rounds and potentially give you new strategies and new headaches. Will you be able to dig deep and get the points you need?
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