Get to work designing a 4-star Manor! Using Dice, create the right design and place rooms in the best configuration to impress your boss and customers. When you give your final home tour, your creativity and marketing skills earn you prestige as the home designer most likely to succeed. As you gain sales and win creativity awards, you will be sure to earn a promotion and become your firm’s lead project engineer and win the Dice Manor Game as well!
After a simple game setup, Dice Manor takes place over four rounds during these phases:
- Bidding – Players take turns rolling dice and allocating them among bidding spaces for room pieces, advertising spots and spaces on their existing manor for home tours as they build it each round. Inspiration tokens are collected that are used to add or subtract dice values and reroll any number of dice.
- Collection – Rewards in the form of rooms to add to their manor, prestige points from advertising as well as manor tours are accumulated by each player.
- Building – Players add any rooms to their manor that they won in the bidding phase.
- Reset for the next round.
At the end of the game, there is a final grand tour during which players use their dice to place in adjoining rooms in their manor. If the manor has been built strategically, room flow will be conducive to earning the most prestige points. Additional points are awarded for having the most rooms in any one color, the most diverse room types, the largest manor and leftover inspiration tokens. The person with the most points wins!
This dice rolling, tile placement, bidding game is brilliant in its ability to weave a tight strategy, as well as luck and opportunity to adjust dice and time their use to win desired building pieces and advertising spots. Dice Manor is easy to teach, fun to play and moves quickly! For 2-4 players with a 30 to 45-minute game time.