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Roll for the Galaxy

Roll for the Galaxy is a dice game of building space empires for 2-5 players. Your dice represent your populace, whom you direct to develop new technologies, settle worlds, and... (read more)
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Reviews
mostly positive, 75% of all reviews are favorable
Playtime
45 minutes
Published
2014
Age
14+
Publisher
Rio Grande Games
Players
2 to 5 players
Designers
Wei-Hwa Huang and Thomas Lehmann
Playstyle
Involved
Game's Categories
Science Fiction, Space, Rio Grande Games, Civilization, Variable Player Powers, Simultaneous Action Selection, and Thomas Lehmann
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Description

Roll for the Galaxy is a dice game of building space empires for 2-5 players. Your dice represent your populace, whom you direct to develop new technologies, settle worlds, and ship goods. The player who best manages his workers and builds the most prosperous empire wins!

This dice version of Race for the Galaxy takes players on a new journey through the Galaxy, but with the feel of the original game.

Components

  • 5 dice cups
  • 5 credit markers
  • 5 player mats
  • 5 player screens
  • 5 phase strips
  • 9 faction tiles (wide, numbered 1-9, with dark grey corners)
  • 9 home world tiles (with dark grey corners)
  • 111 custom dice:
  • 25 white Home
  • 22 red Military
  • 9 purple Consumption
  • 20 blue Novelty
  • 14 brown Rare Elements
  • 12 green Genes
  • 9 yellow Alien Technology
  • 55 game tiles (double-sided)
  • 1 cloth bag (to hold game tiles)
  • 33 victory point (VP) chips
  • 20 small 1 VP chips
  • 8 medium 5 VP chips
  • 5 large 10 VP chips
  • 5 phase tiles (with large phase symbols)
  • rulebook
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    Game's Categories

    Genre

    • Dice Game

    Themes

    • Economic
    • Science Fiction
    • Civilization
    • Space

    Mechanics

    • Variable Player Powers
    • Dice Rolling
    • Contracts
    • Deck, Bag, and Pool Building
    • Variable Phase Order
    • Worker Placement
    • Die Icon Resolution
    • Simultaneous Action Selection
    • Follow
    • Tableau Building
    • Action Retrieval
    • Dice Worker

    Publishers

    • Hobby Japan
    • Korea Boardgames Co., Ltd.
    • Portal Games
    • Rio Grande Games
    • Pegasus Spiele
    • Devir
    • Gigamic
    • Crowd Games
    • Games Factory Publishing
    • CrowD Games

    Designers

    • Thomas Lehmann
    • Wei-Hwa Huang

    Artists

    • Claus Stephan
    • Martin Hoffmann
    • Mirko Suzuki

    Thomas Lehmann

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