Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game
Compete with rival CEOs to make Mars habitable and build your corporate empire.
Number of players: 1 - 4
Game duration: 43 mn
Complexity: 3 / 5
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Rules summary
You have two options on your turn:
- "Produce" or
- Take a "Supporting Action" and a "Main Action"
Produce Turn
When you produce, the following happens:
- Discard all but 3 of your resource dice (wild tokens are not dice).
- You may discard any number of cards from your hand.
- If you have less than 5 cards, draw until you have 5.
- Take and roll all the dice indicated in the brown boxes on your corporation card and green project cards in play.
- Ready any previously used blue project cards. These cards may now be used again.
Action Turn
You take one supporting action, and one main action, but the main action can be a second supporting action.
Supporting Actions
- Gain and roll 1 dice of your choice from the dice pool.
- Pay any resource to turn another dice to any of its sides.
- Pay any resource to draw 2 cards.
- Use an action on one of your blue cards. (Can only be done once until you "Produce" again.)
Main Actions
- Play a card from hand, paying its cost in resource dice.
- Perform another support action.
- Pay 3 heat resources to increase temperature 1 step.
- Pay 3 water resources to place 1 ocean tile.
- Pay 4 plant resources to place 1 forest tile (and increase oxygen 1 step).
- Pay 3 city resources to place 1 city tile.
- Pay 3 MegaCredit resources to immediately gain 2 VP.
- Use an action on one of your blue cards. (Can only be done once until you "Produce" again.)
Dice Faces
Yellow Dice
Common (3 faces): Megacredit
Uncommon (2 faces): Science
Rare (1 face): Earth
Green Dice
Common (3 faces): Plant
Uncommon (2 faces): Microbe
Rare (1 face): Animal
Blue Dice
Common (3 faces): Energy
Uncommon (2 faces): Water
Rare (1 face): Oxygen
Grey Dice
Common (3 faces): Steel
Uncommon (2 faces): Titanium
Rare (1 face): City
Red Dice
Common (3 faces): Heat
Uncommon (2 faces): Event
Rare (1 face): Nuclear
Game End
When two out of three of the following "Terraforming" conditions are met, it triggers the end of the game, and then all players get one last turn (including the player who just ended the second parameter).
- The oxygen track is completed.
- The temperature track is completed.
- All ocean tiles have been placed.
Players add victory points from any Awards, Milestones, and played Cards to those they gained throughout the game, and whoever has the most wins.