Dice king

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Dice king
Game data
author Nils Nilsson
graphic Gus Batts
publishing company HABA
Publishing year 2017
Art dice game
Teammates 2 to 5
Duration 20 to 30 minutes
Age from 8 years

Awards

Dice King is a children's game and dice game by the game designer Nils Nilsson . The game for two to five players, ages eight and up, takes around 20 to 30 minutes per round. It was published by HABA in 2017 , and in 2018 the game was nominated for the German Graf Ludo game graphics award for best children's game graphics .

Theme and equipment

In addition to instructions, the game material consists of six six-sided dice, each showing the eye values ​​1 to 6 in three colors (red, yellow and green), as well as 65 playing cards, including 15 location cards, 10 penalty cards and 40 citizen cards. In the game, the players try to throw their dice in a combination of dice given by cards and get the corresponding cards in this way. They try to get the most valuable combinations possible, which can be made even more valuable by combining them with the corresponding location cards.

Thematically, the players each represent a king who is looking for new residents for his kingdom and wants to found places. The citizen cards are the citizens who are to be persuaded, and the location cards are the localities to be founded.

Style of play

Before the game, the cards are sorted into location cards, penalty cards and citizen cards. The location cards are sorted according to the five card colors and sorted per color with the values ​​2 to 4 placed face to face on top of each other. The penalty cards and citizen cards are shuffled separately, then the penalty cards are placed as an open stack of cards on the right behind the location cards and the citizen cards as a hidden stack on the left below the location cards. The top five citizen cards are laid out face up under the location cards from left to right and a starting player receives the dice to begin the game.

Actions per game round
  • Select dice and dice
  • Take citizen card and possibly local card
    OR take penalty card
  • Place the card on the Kingdom pile
  • Refill card display

The game is played clockwise. The active player takes all dice and throws them up to three times, whereby he can put as many dice aside with each roll and add them to the next roll. In doing so, he tries to roll one of the dice combinations or values ​​shown on the lower edge of the citizen cards and thus win this card and the victory points recorded on it. If he succeeds, he may take the corresponding citizen card and if its color also matches the location above, the player also receives this location card with the corresponding victory points. Individual citizen cards can also have negative victory point values, which the player can assign to another player. In addition, the cards can enable special functions such as another move or the use of a fourth throw, which are carried out accordingly. All cards that a player wins during the game, he collects face up in a kingdom pile in front of him. If a player cannot fulfill any of the conditions of the citizen cards on display with his die result, he receives the top penalty card and also puts it on his kingdom pile and the last open citizen card is placed face down on the discard pile on the far right in the row. Finally, all cards are pushed to the right and the gap on the far left is openly filled with a new citizen card from the stack.

The game ends immediately when a player takes the last card from the draw pile of citizen cards, penalty cards or any pile of location cards. Then each player takes his kingdom stack and adds his victory points, minus points are deducted. The winner of the game is the player who has the most points. In the event of a tie, the player with the fewest negative points in the stack wins.

Versions and reception

The game Würfelkönig was developed by the game designer Nils Nilsson and was published in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch for the 2017 International Game Days at the publisher HABA, which specializes in children's games. In 2018 the game was also released in English (“King of the Dice”) and French (“Roi & Compagnie”) as well as in a Spanish (“El Rey de los Dados”) version.

In 2018 the game was nominated for the German Graf Ludo game graphics award for best children's game graphics .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e game instructions dice king ; accessed on September 1, 2018
  2. ↑ King of the Dice , versions at BoardGameGeek. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ GRAF LUDO 2018 - The selection list ( memento of the original from October 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.modell-hobby-spiel.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on September 1, 2018

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