2025Jonathan McGarvey, Julia Schiller
- Videos
- 3
- Creators
- 1
2 - 4 players10 - 25 min

2014Tim Kings-Lynne, Julia Schiller
Mainly reviews. Hoard is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 8 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 3 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Can you gather and secure more treasure than your fellow-adventurers from the Hoard of the sleeping dragon? Can you defend yourself from their attacks and perhaps perpetrate a few of your own? And can you end the hunt at the most opportune time, perhaps by actually wakening the fearsome beast? Hoard is a dynamic game of hand management, set collection, and press-your-luck. Each turn players take one of four possible actions: 1) roll a custom die and move to take a new card, 2) secure a set of treasures or add to an existing set to score points, 3) affect the dragon, who wakes in stages from his tail to his head, by playing cards that soothe or rouse him, or 4) use a sword on an opponent or capture a used sword with a shield. The board is composed of 12 facedown cards surrounding the dragon. It changes as players remove and replace the cards. Dice rolls between 1-5 enable clockwise or counterclockwise movement and the special symbol allows access to all but one of the cards, so it is a game that rewards memory. Hoard is meant to be played in rounds, with scoring tokens obviating the need for pencil and paper scorekeeping.
Hoard has 16 videos from 12 creators: 8 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 1 playthrough, 1 unboxing and 3 other videos. They date from 2016 to April 2024.
To learn the rules, start with "Official Hoard How-to-Play video" by Cheeky Parrot Games, which runs 5 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Hoard Review - with Tom Vasel" by The Dice Tower. 8 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "DGA Plays Board Games: Hoard" by Dad's Gaming Addiction.
If you like it, try Glimstone Grab!, Granny Wars: A Game of Tit for Tat, Komodo and Manifest, also by Julia Schiller.
8 of 12
2025Jonathan McGarvey, Julia Schiller
2 - 4 players10 - 25 min
2013Amanda Milne, Julia Schiller, Brad Thompson
2 - 8 players20 minLight weight
2014Amanda Milne, Julia Schiller
2 - 5 players45 - 90 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Can you gather and secure more treasure than your fellow-adventurers from the Hoard of the sleeping dragon? Can you defend yourself from their attacks and perhaps perpetrate a few of your own? And can you end the hunt at the most opportune time, perhaps by actually wakening the fearsome beast? Hoard is a dynamic game of hand management, set collection, and press-your-luck. Each turn players take one of four possible actions: 1) roll a custom die and move to take a new card, 2) secure a set of treasures or add to an existing set to score points, 3) affect the dragon, who wakes in stages from his tail to his head, by playing cards that soothe or rouse him, or 4) use a sword on an opponent or capture a used sword with a shield. The board is composed of 12 facedown cards surrounding the dragon. It changes as players remove and replace the cards. Dice rolls between 1-5 enable clockwise or counterclockwise movement and the special symbol allows access to all but one of the cards, so it is a game that rewards memory. Hoard is meant to be played in rounds, with scoring tokens obviating the need for pencil and paper scorekeeping.
Designers
Tim Kings-Lynne, Julia Schiller
Artist
Tim Kings-Lynne
Publisher
Self-published
Mechanics