Rattlebones Fun Strategy Board Game for Family Game Night

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1. Sclouser89 Verified Buyer – 12 August 2024

   I love to play this game! It’s somewhat difficult to explain to new players but they get the hang of it after a round two. The issue I have with the game is how it’s packaged!! It is NOT a game you can just unwrap and play – especially if you are compulsively organized like me. There are many small pieces. The little buttons for the die are all mixed together in one big bag. Just to give you an idea of what that’s like – it’s 180 m&m sized buttons that have to be separated into like 15 different categories. In order to organize it myself, I bought a few pill organizers and small Tupperware containers. It works well, but I hope that at some point they help players out by adding some type of organizing kit!

   

2. Matthew T. Young Verified Buyer – 5 December 2024

   I love this game. The board changes every time you play, so the strategies available to players change too. It’s easy to learn the basic rules and play a game in half an hour or less, which is my sweet spot for light gaming. The game parts are well made, but the organization in the box is very poor. I solved the problem by buying an organizer at lowes (Tough Box 16-Compartment Plastic Small Parts Organizer), which fits snugly inside the game box with no modification and allows all the parts to be available without a bunch of setup time (see pic). I have since slightly rearranged the die sides but otherwise this makes the game super easy to play.

   

3. Josh Farris Verified Buyer – 13 February 2025

   I haven’t heard of a dice building game before and was intrigued. It’s not very difficult to learn thought I don’t think all the instructions were super clear. We watch boardgame geeks play it on YouTube and it was easy going after that. Something about popping the pieces on and off is very enjoyable for the kids. The graphics are nice too. 10 out of 10 for uniqueness!
   

4. Ann K. Aucoin Verified Buyer – 16 March 2025

   This is a fun game the first few times.
   

5. J. Ferguson Verified Buyer – 7 April 2025

   As I usually say on these reviews, I have a LOT of games. I’ve seen a lot of them. This one has a beautifully unique mechanism that allows a family to literally build their dice (almost like Legos). The games starts off on the slow side and then ramps up to a beautiful conclusion. I have a 9 and 6 year old and they’ve really enjoyed the game. It’s just a joy to pick the new faces of the dice and watch as the face you just chose gets rolled and points start accumulating. The creepy little Rattlebones figure moves slowly forward and things go round and round until suddenly (within about 30-40 minutes) it slams to a close and a winner stands up. Whimsical, but not overdone, circus-like them that is sorely underrated by boardgamegeek.com euro snobs. Buy it if you have a family that like cool board games.