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King's Gold

Pirates dice for booty

As a pirate you loot ships and rob other pirates, but the kings wants his share. It is your decision how far you will go to rob the king of his share and to become rich yourself. You roll five dice, can set aside dice and re-roll dice up to two times, that is, three rolls all in all, but you can only re-roll dice that do not show a red Crossbones symbol. Dice showing those are set aside for good in your turn. When you are don with your three rolls, there are the following possibilities: Coin symbol + Cannon - you take the number of coins indicated by the coin symbol from the treasure chest and then the same number again and place it in the King’s pile next to the chest. Coin symbol + Skull - you take the indicated number of coins from another player; only Coin symbols - you steal all Gold in the King’s pile next to the chest; only Skulls - you steal all coins from a player of your choice; only Cannons - you steal all coins that are left in the treasure chest, you need not share with the King. If you did not manage to achieve any of those combinations or if you rolled three or more Crossbones symbols, you must place three coins onto the pile of the King. If you achieve the same combination - Coin+Skull or Coin+Cannon - twice or both of them in your turn, you resolve the results accordingly. When the treasure chest is empty, you win with most coins.

Definitely nothing new, but a nice idea for a standard dice game, noticeably especially for its very pretty tin and for the big, classy coins that come with it. If you like pirates’ games and dice games for combinations and rewards, you will like King’s Gold.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Stéphane Maurel

Artist: Pierô

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Blue Orange Europe 2014

Web: www.blueorangegames.eu

Genre: Dice rolling

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl pt

In-game text: no

Comments:

Beautiful tin for packing

Standard mechanisms

Nice details

Simple rules

Compares to:

All dice games on combinations

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

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Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0