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The Border

The Border

2022·Michael Kiesling, Reinhard Staupe

2 - 4 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

From BoardGameGeek

Your goal in The Border is to surround as many areas as possible as quickly as you can. Each player has an erasable game board that features nine areas, with each area being surrounded by a path of hexagons and with these hexagons being grouped in six colors. Most of these paths border two areas. Two hexagons are white and contain an X mark. On your turn, you roll five dice up to three times, keeping and re-rolling dice as you wish. Each die has a different color on each of its six sides. Once you stop, you can use the die results to X spaces on your game board, but only if you can X off all the spaces in that group. If you roll four orange and one red, for example, you can X off a group of two, three, or four orange hexagons, but not a group of five orange hexagons since you have only four orange on the dice. After you take your turn, each other player can X off one space on their game board for each die that you didn't use on your turn - but only if those spaces are adjacent to ones that are already Xed. If you marked off a group of three orange hexes, for example, then each opponent could mark off one orange and one red, assuming they are adjacent to previously marked spaces. When you mark off the final hex that borders an area, you score that area, earning 4-12 points depending on its size. Any other player who surrounds that area on a later turn receives only half as many points. As soon as a player completes their sixth area, you finish that turn, then everyone sums their points to see who wins.

The Border

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Learn to play

The Border, Hvordan Spilles & Første Indtryk9:55

The Border, Hvordan Spilles & Første Indtryk

Game4LifeBG

Game4LifeBG

Review

The Border - Michael Kieslings Awesome Roll and Write!9:11

The Border - Michael Kieslings Awesome Roll and Write!

Meeple University

Meeple University

Which video should I watch for The Border?

The Border has 3 videos from 2 creators: 1 review and 2 how-to-play guides. They date from 2022 to February 2023.

To learn the rules, start with "The Border, Hvordan Spilles & Første Indtryk" by Game4LifeBG, which runs 10 min.

For an opinion before you buy, start with "The Border - Michael Kieslings Awesome Roll and Write!" by Meeple University.

If you like it, try Azul, Wandering Towers, Azul: Queen's Garden and Heaven & Ale, also by Michael Kiesling.

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The Border - Michael Kieslings Awesome Roll and Write!Review9:11

The Border - Michael Kieslings Awesome Roll and Write!

Meeple University

Meeple University

The Border, Hvordan Spilles & Første IndtrykHow to play9:55

The Border, Hvordan Spilles & Første Indtryk

Game4LifeBG

Game4LifeBG

The Border, How to Play & First ImpressionHow to play11:30

The Border, How to Play & First Impression

Game4LifeBG

Game4LifeBG

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About The Border

From BoardGameGeek:

Your goal in The Border is to surround as many areas as possible as quickly as you can. Each player has an erasable game board that features nine areas, with each area being surrounded by a path of hexagons and with these hexagons being grouped in six colors. Most of these paths border two areas. Two hexagons are white and contain an X mark. On your turn, you roll five dice up to three times, keeping and re-rolling dice as you wish. Each die has a different color on each of its six sides. Once you stop, you can use the die results to X spaces on your game board, but only if you can X off all the spaces in that group. If you roll four orange and one red, for example, you can X off a group of two, three, or four orange hexagons, but not a group of five orange hexagons since you have only four orange on the dice. After you take your turn, each other player can X off one space on their game board for each die that you didn't use on your turn - but only if those spaces are adjacent to ones that are already Xed. If you marked off a group of three orange hexes, for example, then each opponent could mark off one orange and one red, assuming they are adjacent to previously marked spaces. When you mark off the final hex that borders an area, you score that area, earning 4-12 points depending on its size. Any other player who surrounds that area on a later turn receives only half as many points. As soon as a player completes their sixth area, you finish that turn, then everyone sums their points to see who wins.

Designers

Michael Kiesling, Reinhard Staupe

Artists

Oliver Freudenreich, Sandra Freudenreich

Publisher

Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag

Categories

Dice

Mechanics

Dice RollingRoll & Write / Paper-and-Pencil
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