Jewel Box
In Jewel Box, players will be collecting and placing unique beetles from 5 different beetle families: Jewels, Longhorns, Scarabs, Ladybugs, and Weevils. Within each of the 5 families are 15 unique beetles. Each turn, players will roll the dice and take the corresponding beetle from the log.
Number of players: 2 - 6
Game duration: 21 mn
Complexity: 2 / 5
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Rules summary
Game Play
Roll die. Collect and place the Beetle matching your die roll into a 4x4 grid.
Rolling a 6 allows you to pick any of the 5 available Beetles.
2-Player variant - 5x5 grid.
Tools
Tools are single use.
Magnifying glass - choose any face-up OR face-down Beetle instead of rolling the die.
Forceps - Swap 2 beetles tiles in your Jewel Box. Can be used before or after collecting a Beetle.
Either - Can be used as either Magnifying Glass or Forceps.
Limit to using 1 token per turn.
Each unused token at the end of the game is worth 2 points.
Scoring Guide
| Scarabs | Score individually. A scarab on the edge adjacent to all different family scores 2 points. A scarab in the middle adjacent to all different family scores 3 points. |
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| Weevils | Gain points for an unbroken horizontal or vertical line (2 = 3 points, 3 = 6 points, 4 = 10 points).
Each weevil can only be counted once. |
| Longhorns | If total number of longhorns in your grid is a even number, score 2 for each longhorn. If odd number, score 1 for each longhorn. |
| Ladybugs | Score lady bugs which aren't adjacent to another lady bug.
2 = 1 point, 3 = 4 points, 4 = 8 points, 5 = 15 points. |
| Jewels | Scores when in non-adjacent pairs, each worth 5 points. More than 2 adjacent to each other - 0 points for all. |
(Note that in the BGA implementation it seems that all weevils will "try" to be scored: an L-shaped group of 5 weevils will score 9 points (3+2) rather than 10 (4+1).)