Diamant (2005)

Diamant is a quick, fun game of push-your-luck. Players venture down mine shafts by turning up cards from a deck, sharing the gems they find on the way down. Before the next card is turned up, you have the chance to leave the mine and stash your finds, including any gems you get on the way out.

Why would you leave? Because the deck also contains hazards, scorpions, snakes, poison gases, explosions and rockfalls. When a duplicate hazard turns up (such as a second scorpion), anyone left in the shaft is killed and loses the gems they got this turn. The trick is, the more players that leave, the bigger your share in the next card will be.

Re-implemented by:

• Incan Gold
• Risco Total (omitting original authors and probably unauthorized)

Awards

• 2006 BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Winner, Best Light/Party Game.
• 2005 Spiel des Jahres Recommendation.
• 2005 Japan Boardgame Prize Winner, The Best Foreign Game for Beginners.
• 2005 A la carte 4th Place, Fairplay Magazine prize for card games.

Microbadges

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Online Play

• BrettspielWelt (real-time)