2021 · Economic

Riverside

Players act as tour guides for a small river cruise company in a remote winterland, planning excursions to villages along a modular river route. Each round, dice are rolled into a common pool and players simultaneously select one die color to fill seats on their personal guide-boat sheet, completing rows to sell group tickets of that color. Completed group tickets score points immediately and remain valid for the rest of the game, earning additional points each time that color’s excursion is visited. Dice colors represent tourist preferences; a transparent green die is a wildcard but always requires spending limited fire tokens to recruit. Longer rows and higher-value dice yield more points and require tougher resource choices, so players balance filling multiple colors versus maximizing a few to optimize their score.

groupPlayers

1–6 best 4

schedulePlaying time

15–25 min

cakeAge

10+

psychologyComplexity

1.9 / 5