Rice Dice
BGG rank
BGG #15,053
BGG rating
6.0

Rice Dice

2018

Rules assistance for Rice Dice

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 1–5 players
  • 30–45 min
  • 10+
  • Complexity 2.0/5

For 1 player

Rules assistant for Rice Dice

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Rice Dice is a board game released in 2018 for 1–5 players, 30–45 minutes per game, and ages 10 and up. It was designed by Philip duBarry and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling and Worker Placement.

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About the game

In Rice Dice, a streamlined version of Spirits of the Rice Paddy, you roll the custom dice and choose one action based on the results: add rice paddy cards to your field, run water through your paddies, assign laborers to plant and harvest, or add weeds to opponents' fields. Harvesting gains players rice, which is essential to win, but paddies with weeds produce less rice, so it's essential to assign laborers to keep paddies clean. A harvested paddy can once again be flooded using a water action, then the cycle of planting, draining, weeding, and harvesting begins again. The first player to collect 100 rice (via harvesting, or other special abilities) wins! Like Spirits of the Rice Paddy, Rice Dice rewards a player's ability to optimize the process of flooding, planting, weeding, and harvesting — but it plays in just a fraction of the time!

Publishers

  • APE Games

Questions and answers

Rice Dice supports 1–5 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.