Dandelions

From Allplay:

Transform into a dandelion and float through the clear blue skies!

A roll-and-move game? In 2024? Yes! And, we think it's the best roll-and-move game you'll ever play.

Dandelion is a dice-rolling, area-majority game with a little direct-competition edge. Your quest is to find the best spots for your seeds to grow across a variety of vibrant, beautiful, and cozy gardens.

Along the way, you can harness the power of the wind with three special actions — float, puff, and gust — to get the most points. The game ends after all the dice are used, and whoever receives the most victory points as combined from two different scoring methods wins.

How to Play

Roll Your Dice

• All players roll all 11 of their dice and sort them in front of themselves.

Move and Float

• Each turn, pick one of your dice, and move your pawn that many spaces. If you land on the same space as another player, don't stop there. Repeat your movement.

Plant and Gust

• Put the die you used in the garden you land in. If that garden already has other dice with the same number, blow those dice into an adjacent garden.

Repeat these steps until you've used all 11 of your dice.

Score Two Ways

• Score each die based on the value of the garden it is in. Additionally, for each garden, if you have the most dice, score your pips.
  
  

The rules might sound simple, but the interactivity and the two scoring conditions make for interesting strategy and decisions.