Cubitos Board Game

Cubitos In 2016 AEG released Automobiles a highly acclaimed bag building game. Bag building took the idea of deck building with cards and turned it into building up cubes, dice or meeples in a bag. Automobiles used cubes of different colours to race around a course.

Cubes were given different abilities depending on cards that were assigned to them. There was a huge amount of variety due to this, but the rally theme might have put some off. Cubitos takes the core bag building and variety of Automobiles and turns it into more streamlined game with less rules overhead and more craziness. Including that cheese on the cover.

Automobiles' cubes are replaced with dice. Dice have blank faces and faces that give money or movement and special faces that activate their special powers. Players don't actually have a physical bag in Cubitos rather they have a player mat with draw, roll. activate and discard sections. At the start of a turn all players will roll dice up to their roll limit. This starts at 9. In the beginning you will only have rubbish gray dice, which yield very little but will get you started.

Once you start getting other dice you will unlock more powerful movement and abilities. There is four course included and they are the perfect size. On some spaces are power ups including free dice and money you can save round to round. Money generated from dice usually on lasts one round. By stripping away the realistic racing theme Cubitos becomes a streamlined, fun and fast race game with tons of replay value.

Also Automobiles has been out of print for a long time so you may struggle to get hold of it. That doesn't matter though as Cubitos holds it's own as a fun, engaging race game.