CubeMelt: Getting Dicey

About this board game

CubeMelt: Getting Dicey is a dice game for 1–5 players that plays in about 20 minutes. Each player guides an irresistible ice cube through a race for love and adventure before its short life melts away.

At the start, your love and adventure tokens begin at 0, while your CubeMelt token starts at 20. On your turn, roll all six dice, then choose which dice to reroll. You may reroll a second time by lowering your CubeMelt token by 1, creating a tempting choice between improving your results and preserving your icy life.

The dice feature four possible effects: heart eyes increase love, star eyes increase adventure, while a sad face and a droopy face each lower CubeMelt by 1. The way these effects are shared depends on the roll.

• If one face appears more often than every other face, your left and right neighbors receive the effects of those matching dice, while you receive the effects of all the other dice.
• If no face has a strict majority over each of the others, you receive the effects of all the dice you rolled.

Reach 20 love or 20 adventure to win immediately. But if your CubeMelt token reaches 0, the game ends: every surviving player scores the lower of their love and adventure tokens, and the highest score wins.

For a different experience, the advanced game adds costumed versions of CubeMelt. Each one brings a unique game-changing power, adding new possibilities to this fast, melt-before-you-lose dice adventure.