Featured Game - Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game

Featured games are our way of teaching new games and highlighting something we think our players may enjoy or take note of. We'll explain from scratch how to play the game with a detailed description and demonstrate a few turns, then break into tables to actually play it. Each week it'll be something new, but will run the spectrum of different lengths, complexities, themes, and game mechanics. So if this week's game doesn't interest you, feel free to look again next time around!

Terraforming Mars: The Dice game is a spinoff of the original Terraforming Mars, this time using dice. You know, as the name implies. Dice come in multiple colors and are primarily used to play different cards that represent projects towards terraforming, each of which could provide dice production, support actions, or immediate actions towards making the planet habitable. Each turn, you'll either take an action turn to acquire or reset a die, then play a card or a standard project, or take a production turn to draw more cards and collect more dice based on what you've played already. A successful player will need to measure which cards are most useful and the most efficient way to get the dice needed to play them.

Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game is a game for up to 4 players and should take experienced players about 45 minutes to play. It has a weight of 2.41 on BoardGameGeek, making it medium-light complexity compared to games typically played here.

If you want to learn more in advance, read the rules here: https://fryxgames.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TMDG_RULES_ENGi.pdf
Watch a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UeOlubyWbY

If this is your first time with this group, you should see a link to our Discord group once you've signed up for this event. You may join any time before the event begins to get to know people, but once this event starts, we'll typically join the Lobby voice chat, then move to another voice chat once we've gotten started. Note that I, as the game teacher, will share my screen to show how the game works, but all other interaction will be voice only, no video, so no need to look presentable first. The game itself will be played using Board Game Arena - please create an account on this site beforehand.