Cover art for Scripts and Scribes: The Dice Game

Scripts and Scribes: The Dice Game

2012 · BGG
Avg rating
6.52
Bayes rating
5.64
Weight
1.59 (Light)
Players
2-5
Playtime
30 min
Ratings count
341

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Description

As a medieval monk, you are charged with increasing the prestige of the abbey's collection of historical and sacred texts. By acquiring the resources for manuscript illustration and reproduction, your abbey produces and sells its valuable works, thereby bringing in finances necessary for maintaining a fine abbey. Will you succeed in making your abbey the most prestigious of all? The goal of Scripts and Scribes: The Dice Game is to acquire gold and to collect resources – scrolls, manuscripts, pigments, quills, ink – to exchange for gold. The game is a dice version of Scripts and Scribes (aka, Biblios) and follows the same basic theme, but with interesting changes due to the use of dice. As in Scripts and Scribes, players compete in five different categories and the values of the categories change during the game. In addition, depending upon the dice roll, there may be many or few auctions during the game in which players auction their resources for gold or auction gold for resources.

Play mode

Competitive

How it plays

Auction & bidding Deduction & hidden information Dice rolling
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Push your luck Set collection & pattern building

Game type

Board game

What it’s about

Fantasy & myth Food, farming & craft

Publishers

Dr. Finn's Games

Designers

Steve Finn