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Dig Mars

Dig up hidden treasures

Objects of unknown origin need to be dug up on Mars. You have three equipment tiles as well as markers for stations and equipment. Exploration tiles are stacked face down in a 4x4 grid, with three tiles in a stack. You begin with a randomly placed station on any stack. In a turn you have three actions in any order and combination, and can also do one action more than once - Dig, Carry, Move or Upgrade. Stations on stacks where you do an action remain on the stacks. Some tiles yield once-only bonus actions: Dig, Carry, Relocate Station, +1 Fortune Point or Inspect Ground. For Digging you choose a tile carrying one of your stations, with a digging value lower or equal to that of your digging equipment tile, and turn over the tile. If you want to Carry you choose an open tile with your station and corresponding carrying strength of your equipment tile and take the exploration tile, storing it face-down. To upgrade equipment you pay Fortune markers or Fortune Points from taken expedition tiles and advance the marker on the chosen equipment tile or place another station. Fortune Markers are used for change in payments. When there are several stations on one tile you can do actions exceeding your equipment value, each additional station gives you +1 for the equipment; Fortune Points are split. If you have 20, 30 or 40 Fortune Points in case of 4, 3 or 2 players, you can announce your victory in your turn.

Cozy and simple digging on the Red Planet, components and topic go well together, Aliens are absent and the only excitement is digging up some garbage, and even that scores you one point.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Oliver Sihiveer

Artist: Reinis Pētersons

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Brain Games 2013

Web: www.brain-games.com

Genre: placement, reveal and use tiles

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en + 7 languages

In-game text: no

Comments:

Components and topic nicely coordinated

Simple rules

Well-working mechanisms

Nice family game

Compares to:

Troia, Das Geheimnis der Pyramide, König Salomons Schatzkammer

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0