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The Dickens Game box art
1983 Ranked #21,422

The Dickens Game

Collect matching sets while timing when to score or trade them.

Novel-based Roll / Spin and Move Set Collection Admin: Better Description Needed!

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.67/5

Rating

5.64

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 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 3.5/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Players move from inn to inn, collecting characters to complete the 5 chapters of a Dickens novel. The rules state that the designer Mary Danby is a great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.

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Players move from inn to inn, collecting characters to complete the 5 chapters of a Dickens novel. The rules state that the designer Mary Danby is a great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Past Times is a chain store of cod repro English history, with games usually produced for them by Oxford Games, but this is a game they've published themselves and the rules are in English, French and Japanese!

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
30 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.7/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Mary Danby

Publishers

2
Milton Bradley Past Times

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