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2017 Ranked #18,600

Dwarves: Dig, Delve, Die

This chaotic dice-placement game has miners expand a shared mine, uncover gold, and be first to collect five nuggets. Lowest-value dwarves trigger card effects, which can produce riches or let a dragon devour a stack.

Card Game Dice Worker Placement Dice Rolling

Players

2-6

Play time

5-30 min

Age

13+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

5.92

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

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?

Dwarves: Dig, Delve, Die is a fast and chaotic dice placement game. Play your worker dwarves - represented by dice - into the ever expanding mine and see what they dig up.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Worker Placement

Commit limited workers to action spaces before opponents occupy them.
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Dwarves: Dig, Delve, Die is a fast and chaotic dice placement game. Play your worker dwarves - represented by dice - into the ever expanding mine and see what they dig up. It could be a gold mine...or a dragon. Can you be the first player to 5 gold? The first one to do so is the winner! Each turn you roll and place your dwarves in the mine, which is represented by a deck of cards. After you place them the dwarf that has the lowest face up value finishes work and causes something to happen based on the card he is working on. Will it be a gold mine that earns you one gold nugget? Or maybe a dragon that eats tallest stack of dwarves? Or something else?

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Category

3
Card Game Dice Fantasy

Mechanism

2
Dice Rolling Worker Placement

Family

2
Creatures: Dwarves & Gnomes Crowdfunding: Kickstarter

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
3–4
Play time
5–30 min
Age
13+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
G. Kelly Toyama

Artists

1
Brandon Gillam

Publishers

1
Imbalanced Games LLC

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