Roll for the Galaxy is a science fiction strategy game for two to five players designed by Thomas Lehmann and Wei-Hwa Huang and dated to 2014 by the Board Game Matcher listing. It is a dice version of Race for the Galaxy: where that game has players play cards at once, here each player secretly assigns dice to roles such as exploring, developing and settling, then reveals the choices together. The page files it under civilization, dice, economic, science fiction and space exploration categories, with dice rolling and worker placement using dice as workers. The description says it turns the card-drafting speed of its predecessor into a dice-allocation puzzle, and that games finish in under an hour, which the listing puts at about forty-five minutes.
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Playing Time PublisherGames Factory Publishing 2 Game Category Game Category Game Category Game Category Game Category Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game MechanicDeck, Bag, and Pool Building 2 Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game MechanicSimultaneous Action Selection 2 Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game MechanicWorker Placement with Dice Workers 2 Minimum Players Maximum Players Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sport
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1. Roll for the Galaxy (Board Game Matcher)
Game page details
Year 2014
Game page details [player-count]
Players: 2-5
Derived From: Race for the Galaxy, Game page description
Roll for the Galaxy transforms the card-drafting speed of Race into a dice-allocation puzzle
View the Source2. Roll for the Galaxy (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 45
- Designer: Thomas Lehmann
- Designer: Wei-Hwa Huang
- Publisher: CrowD Games
- Publisher: Devir
- Publisher: Games Factory Publishing
- Publisher: Gigamic
- Publisher: Hobby Japan
- Publisher: Korea Boardgames
- Publisher: Pegasus Spiele
- Publisher: Portal Games
- Publisher: Rio Grande Games
- Game Category: Civilization
- Game Category: Dice
- Game Category: Economic
- Game Category: Science Fiction
- Game Category: Space Exploration
- Game Mechanic: Action Retrieval
- Game Mechanic: Contracts
- Game Mechanic: Deck, Bag, and Pool Building
- Game Mechanic: Dice Rolling
- Game Mechanic: Die Icon Resolution
- Game Mechanic: Follow
- Game Mechanic: Hand Management
- Game Mechanic: Race
- Game Mechanic: Simultaneous Action Selection
- Game Mechanic: Tags
- Game Mechanic: Tile Placement
- Game Mechanic: Variable Phase Order
- Game Mechanic: Variable Player Powers
- Game Mechanic: Variable Set-up
- Game Mechanic: Worker Placement with Dice Workers
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 5
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