The Castles of Burgundy: The Dice Game

A "dice" version of The Castles of Burgundy. The famous strategy game now in pure dice game! As influential sovereigns, expand your estates through trade and commerce. Combine the dice to your advantage and find the strategy that will lead you to victory. Like the board game, the idea is to get the most points, mostly by filling as many spaces on your board to complete color regions. The game comes with 5 dice: one timer die, 2 number dice and 2 color dice. The game is played using a "roll and write" mechanic, where one player rolls the dice, and from the results, each player picks one color die, representing a type of hex on the board, and one number die, and uses their chosen combinations to fill hexes on their own board. Each player starts with one castle space filled in; from there, a hex can only be filled on the board if it's adjacent to an already-filled hex. Each type of hex has its own rules for which numbers can be used to fill it, and its own reward for completing the entire color region. When completing a region of hexes, you score points and get a reward, such as workers, monks or silver coins that you can later use to manipulate the dice to your advantage or take extra actions. In addition, bonus points are awarded to the first and second players to fill in all hexes on their board of each color. The timer die sets the pace of the game. When it is rolled, players mark a number of boxes on the time track equal to the number of hourglasses rolled on the timer die (one or two). This progresses the game through three phases of ten time boxes each. When all time boxes are filled, the game is over and the player with the most points wins.