2017 · Dice

The Castles of Burgundy: The Dice Game

Players expand estates across a personal board by filling hexes representing farmlands, castles, towns and special buildings. On each turn a central roll produces two color dice, two number dice and a timer die; each player selects one color and one number to mark a matching hex on their sheet, subject to adjacency and terrain-specific number rules. Completing regions scores points and grants rewards—workers and monks to modify dice, silver to buy extra actions, or goods to ship for additional points. A shared timer die advances a three-phase track; when the time track fills, the game ends and the highest-scoring player wins.

groupPlayers

1–5 best 2

schedulePlaying time

15–30 min

cakeAge

10+

psychologyComplexity

1.9 / 5