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Eisenstein has stated that once the Peloponnes Box is available on the market, he'll release the art for the Victoria expansion so that those who already own the other seven expansions will be able to create their own copy.
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In Dice City, each player has their own grid along with five dice in the colors shown on the left-hand edge of the board. At the start of the game and the end of each of your turns, you roll the dice, then place them in the appropriate spaces in the grid, e.g., a white 1 in the upper left corner. On a turn, you take one action for each of the dice on your board, such as swapping out the location cards available for purchase, moving a different die to an adjacent space in the same row, or (duh) using the location where that die is located.
If you build your army's strength, you can attack bandits or locations on opponents' game boards. If you collect resources, you can export them via trade ships for VPs or purchase new locations that then cover those on your game board, thereby customizing your potential actions in future turns.
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It's interesting to see how each publisher puts its own spin on The Game's subtitle, which is the only thing that makes it possible to find The Game in Internet searches. IDW/Pandasaurus went with "Are you ready to play The Game?" while Oya has "Le Jeu n'est pas votre ami!" ("The Game is not your friend!") What would you suggest for a subtitle?
• Speaking of this design, designer Reinhard Staupe — who serves as editor for The Game publisher NSV — is conducting a survey of the tricks players use when they play The Game solo. Why? As he explains on his website, he's created a PC program that's played solitaire The Game thousands of times, always playing two cards with the smallest possible difference and using the plateau jump when possible, and on average this program loses with an average of twenty cards still to be played — a result far worse than most human players have. Thus, Staupe is asking people to submit detailed play records and explain when and why they'll play more than two cards and what else they do to perform better than the computer. (HT: Spielbox)
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