Roll For It

2-4 players (best with 4) // 30 mins // Easy

Just a small deck of cards and 6 small dice per player, so it’s easy to carry with you and needs very little table space. Try to roll your dice to match the dice shown on one of the three cards before others do. Repeat until one player hits the points needed to win.

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Official Website
=> Rules
=> Lens Rules Summary (v1)

=> Video Playlist

How to Play (with partial playthrough)

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Planet Unknown

=> BoardGameGeek
=> GameFound Fullfillment
=> Deluxe Reprint Kickstarter (July 2023) // Original Kickstarter
=> Rules
=> Complete “official” online FAQ // Planet Unknown FAQ

=> Len’s 1 page Rules Summary (v1)
=> Planet Unknown Score Sheet v2

NOTE: several reviewers suggest not using the optional Event Deck for multiplayer games.

=> Video Playlist

Dice Tower Review and Explanation (he gives it an EXCELLENT rating) [original version]:

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Red Rising

=> BoardGameGeek
=> Official Website / Official Rules and FAQ
=> Rules (online pop up) / Rulebook
=> Lens v4 Rules Summary

=> Video Playlist

Notes:

  • The game designer has recently stated: “a score over 200 is very good, and scores over 300 are incredible!”
  • You only get the location bonus for placing a card with the SCOUT action. You do not get the location bonus when placing a card at other times.
  • You cannot gain a card without first deploying a card from your hand (LEAD action).
  • You can’t discard a card in Red Rising. Also, when you take the Lead action, you deploy a card and then you must either gain the top card of a location or the top card of the deck. When doing this, you always end up with the same number of cards (because you deploy one and gain one)
  • Most cards have a core value over 10+, and the only penalty for having >7 cards is -10 points. So focusing on getting as many cards as possible is the way to win.
  • Some cards have an end game ability to gain a banished card. You DO get to use the end game ability of that card as well.
  • If a card’s end-of-game ability lets you take a card from a location, that card’s end-of-game ability or/and end-game bonus DOES trigger!
  • Clarification: “top non-Gold card at a location” means if the very top card is Gold, then the top non-Gold card might be the 2nd or 3rd card in the location.
  • If Apollo triggers “end game”, everyone gets one more turn (because Apollo was the first player and does get that extra turn at the end).
  • The Apollo house card has you just add a card to a location (ie, you do NOT get the placement bonus)?
  • Some gray cards let you choose to set it to another color. It then is gray plus that color.
  • A “non-Gold” card includes colorless cards (ie, face down cards).
  • When deployed sometimes you get to move another card (from top or from anywhere in a location stack?) => Discussion (with comments from two game designers)
  • Official Variant for Multiplayer Games: When choosing one or more opponents to banish, potentially banish, or steal a card from their hand without the immediate ability to regain a card, you may only choose players who have more cards in hand than their starting hand (most starting hands are 5 cards; for House Ceres it’s 6). You can still deploy cards with such abilities, but any abilities related to choosing an opponent won’t trigger. This applies to Aja, Antonia, Arlus, Karnus, Roque, and Tactus.

How to play (with a two player playthrough):

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Rules are in ALIEN (all symbols) – City of Six Moons

I ordered this game December 17, 2024. It might take up to two months to receive it as each game is individually packaged.

It’s like someone discovered this alien board game and now we want to play it … but the rules aren’t in English … they are in ALIEN!

It would seem that most of the fun of the game will be just figuring out HOW to play the game. The game designer and publisher have stated that they will NOT answer any rules questions!

Here are some articles (reviews?) of the game(?)

  1. Designer Diary (background on the game written by the designer)
  2. Three Phases of Six Moons (written by someone who actually IS a translator of dead languages (ie Biblical))
  3. The Alien board game people are spending months translating (Polygon) first article I read about this game
  4. “People have spent 20 hours solving” City of Six Moons, the board game you must learn an alien language to play (Games Radar)
  5. BGG – Forum – Possible Errata (nope, it was correct – but the thread is interesting)

SIdenote: one of the “blue” cards looked a tad bit purple … the game designer has confirmed that this was a printing issue, and the card really should be the regular blue color!

A fairly short look at the “game” (or whatever you might call it):

Back of the box:

Promotional photos provided on the game designers / game publishers website:

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Metal Coins

December 2024 I ordered some thick heavy coins! These will be added to my collection of other lightweight metal coins.

I will get two bags of the coins of two types: Gold and Silver .. each bag has 15 and 30 coins of each type (total for two bags is 30 and 60 of each type). Here is info on these interesting coins:

=> Coins for Games (thick heavy) (PDF)

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