Gold Mine (board game)
Tile-laying game of mining, gold, and challenges.
Gold Mine is a tile-laying board game for 2 to 6 players, ages 8 and up, designed by Chris James and published by Stratus Games. Players excavate a maze of mine tunnels by placing tiles, then control miniature miners who traverse the mine collecting gold. The object is to be the first to collect a certain number of gold nuggets and exit the mine.
Quick Facts
- Subtitle
- The Game of Exploration, Riches & Peril
- Designer
- Chris James
- Illustrator
- Andy Kurzen
- Publisher
- Stratus Games
- Date
- July 2010
- Years
- 2010 to present
- Genre
- Family, Tile-laying
- Players
- 2 to 6
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Components
The game includes 100 game tiles: 1 Mine Entrance tile, 28 Gold Chamber tiles, 67 Mine Tunnel tiles, and 4 Cavern tiles. There are also 28 Gold Nuggets, 18 Gold Challenge tokens, 18 Bat Challenge tokens, 6 Miners, and 2 dice. The Miners are plastic miniatures about 1 inch tall and 1/2 inch in diameter, available in red, green, blue, yellow, black, and white, depicting a pudgy, faceless miner with overalls, boots, pickaxe, and helmet with headlamp. Gold Nuggets are durable plastic nugget-shaped pieces roughly 1/2 inch long. Each game tile is 1.75 inches square and 2 millimeters thick. Mine Tunnel and Gold Chamber tiles have various tunnel configurations with zero, one, or two exposed tunnels per side. Cavern tiles show a natural cavern with stalactites. Gold Chamber tiles depict a large room with golden floors and walls. The Mine Entrance tile shows an open space with a ladder and an 'Exit' sign; its reverse side shows an exterior mine entrance with an 'Enter' sign and a ladder leading down. Challenge tokens are 3/4 inches in diameter and 2 millimeters thick: Gold Challenge tokens show a gold nugget with crossed pickaxes, Bat Challenge tokens show attacking bats.
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