Dice Box

Dice Box

Designer: Jonathan Leistiko
Publisher: Invisible City Productions
Type: Dice
Status: Free
BGG entry: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/13450
Available at: http://www.invisible-city.com/play/59

Object: To place colored dice on a grid in a way that maximizes your points and minimizes the points that you must concede to your opponents.

I set out to make a game with the following premises:

• Uses six-sided dice.
• Plays like dominoes.
• Involves colors (red, yellow, blue, and white).
• Players have colors associated with them. At the end of the game, they get points based on the color that they’re associated with.

In many ways, this is a sequel to RYB. I like the idea of creating a strategic dice game, since dice epitomize the idea of randomness and chance for many people. Although I’ve been mulling over this game for over three months now, I’d assert that it really took about two weeks to go from conception to a rough approximation of what you see here.