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Year Published
2009
# of Players:
2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 3, 5 players
Recommended with 3, 5 players
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Playing Time
60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
9 and up
User Suggested Ages
10
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Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
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Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Alea Iacta Est
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Players take on the role of Caesar and compete for the most prestige points. This happens by clever placement of his/her eight dice, which are placed on five different buildings.

At the Castrum (barracks), new provinces can be conquered, while patricians can be recruited at the Forum Romanum to be sent to those provinces. At the Senatus, cards can be won for bonuses that will be kept secret until the end of the game. The Templum awards prestige points directly from the Goddess Fortuna. Each die that does not win any of these ends the round at the Latrina, where it provides its owner with a “repete!” chip, which can be used to re-roll dice or can be traded in two-to-one for prestige points at the end of the game. Each building has special rules as to how the dice can be placed, allowing many tactical possibilities with any roll of the dice.

Each round ends when one player has placed his/her last die, and after 5 rounds (6 rounds with 2-3 players), the patricians are organized in their provinces, the senate cards are revealed, and the scores are totaled. The player with the most prestige points wins!

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The phrase "alea iacta est" literally means "the backgammon game has begun," though it is commonly translated as "the die is cast."

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2 Bonus Tiles reference ITA
A player aid with original graphic of the Bonus Tiles. ITALIAN: stampare su un foglio fronte retro le pagine 2 e 3. lo stesso testo del file di Tetsuo [LiF] ma con la grafica originale. solo la descrizione delle tessere bonus, NESSUN riassunto delle regole o del funzionamento degli edifici.
2009-09-10
3 Building summary
Simple table describing placement rules, and rewards, for the five buildings in the game.
2009-09-06
3 Portuguese Rules (with graphics)
Baseado na tradução da Dream with Boardgames com os "highlights" traduzidos à partir do arquivo postado pelo Kasey Relford.
2009-06-10
2 Portuguese Summary (with graphics)
Sumário em português baseado na tradução feita pelo blog Dream With Boardgames.
2009-06-10
7 Alea Iacta Est - Polish Rules/Polska Instrukcja
Polskie tlumaczenie regul gry.
2009-06-04
2 Riassunto delle carte S.P.Q.R. in italiano
Traduzione in italiano delle carte S.P.Q.R.
2009-06-01
2 Alea Iacta Est - Regolamento italiano
Traduzione non ufficiale del regolamento basata sulla versione inglese.
2009-05-30
2 Colosseum - Round Scoreboard
With a little cube you can see in which round you are :)
2009-05-25
4 alea iacte est speelhulpje (NL)
Player Aid in Dutch
2009-05-10
12 Alea Iacta Est - English Senate Cards Summary Sheet (translated)
This is the English translation of the "S.P.Q.R." Senate Cards Summary Sheet, included with the original German release of Alea Iacta Est. Jeffrey Allers was kind enough to verify my translation and made a few corrections.
2009-05-03
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 1293
Num Ratings: 305
Average Rating: 6.46
Standard Deviation: 1.16
Num Views: 17743
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Users Owning: 283
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Users Trading: 7
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