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2016 Ranked #5,408

Dairyman

This push-your-luck dice game has players roll exact sums to collect milk and fulfill farm work. Failure ends a turn, while milk can spoil or be converted into more valuable products.

Family Games Dice Farming Push Your Luck Dice Rolling

Players

2-4

Play time

20-30 min

Age

14+

Complexity

1.13/5

Rating

6.31

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Moo, moo!! Milk a cow, produce some milk!

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Moo, moo!! Milk a cow, produce some milk! You are a dairyman, milking fresh milk everyday, working hard to fulfill the orders given by the farm owner. But be aware! If your milk spoils an entire day's work will go down the drain! Or maybe you can turn milk into cheese or ice cream products, increasing their value and prevent them from spoiling! Can you become the best dairyman of the farm? In clockwise order, players take turns to roll all dice, and must lock one set of dice that have a sum of exactly 10. They may repeat this process until they want to pass. They may then trade their dice of 10s for milk tile(s) of equal value. If they fail to roll a sum of 10, their turn ends immediately and they will get a snow token as a compensation, which may be used to flip the milk tiles later in the game to earn extra points or gain special abilities. When the stack of milk tiles is depleted, the player with the most points on their milk tiles wins the game.

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
20–30 min
Age
14+
Complexity
1.1/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Chih-Fan Chen

Artists

2
Chih-Fan Chen Katie Welch

Publishers

2
Homosapiens Lab Tasty Minstrel Games

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