Gem Rush

Dig through a changing mine by spending gem cards to construct rooms and expand the mine. Use room abilities to replenish your gems while carefully managing resources and building toward victory. Play competitively in a race for fortune, or cooperate to save the mine in crisis mode. Modular room tiles and flexible gemstone cards create a different layout and set of construction choices each game.

Players: 1–6 best 4
Playing time: 45 min
Age: 13+
Complexity: 1.8 / 5

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About the game

Design: Jeremy Lennert
Art: Clark Miller
Publisher: Victory Point Games

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Gem Rush: Skill Cards2015

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1.6/10

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Evan1.6
Quick, and works with anywhere between 2-6 players. You get these little makers, and pay gems from your hand to open up new passage ways, and when you do you score some points printed on that tile. The game has two modes, co-op where you are collectively trying to get to a certain score, and vs mode where it's just first to 20 ends the game (and then most points wins at the end of that round). The tiles should be thicker, or at least sleevable. They are printed on thin card-stock, and even though they are square, they are the wrong size for the Fantasy Flight Supply square sleeves. After many plays, I've gotten pretty tired of this game. There are too many turns where you just don't have an interesting choice to make.

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