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Nitro Dice

Brake or rear end collision?

Nitro Dice is a new car racing simulation featuring 100-sided dice for cars! A race track is laud out with cards and each player is given 9 cards. A round comprises Speed Determination and Movement phases. For Speed Determination all players, starting with the one in the lead, can change the speed of their car by one level for free or by two levels at the cost of discarding any card, but never higher than the maximum card stated on the Vehicle Condition card. In the Movement phase you move as many steps as your car die shows. If someone is faster or equally fast as the car directly behind him in the same lane this car is pulled forward one step. If you move to another track card during movement you pay Handling costs by discarding cards, either a card identical to the new track card or any three cards. For changing track, braking, avoiding of collisions or rear end collisions you must use corresponding cards or take damage; not paying for movement also results in damage to the car. Each damage reduces maximum speed and thus the limits of card you can hold; at the end of the round you draw cards according to your position in the race, up to limit for cards in hand. If a player has accomplished the necessary number of laps for the race and crosses the finish line first or is furthest beyond the finish line he wins.

Nitro Dice is a nice addition to the range of car racing games with surprisingly few components for a well-working simulation; discarding cards when moving to another part of the track is a nice detail, as is the use of dice for cars as well as as speed indicators.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 60+

Designer: David E. Whitcher

Artist: Erik Lervold

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Minion Games 2011

Web: www.minion-games.com

Genre: Car racing game

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: en

Rules: en kr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard mechanisms with nice details

Dice are car and speed indicator at the same time

Nice movement mechanism

Compares to:

Other Car racing games

Other editions:

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