Dig Your Way Out: Dig In Expansion

2023-11-15T00:31:42-05:00

Vendor: Bannan Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer	David Simide
Publisher	Bannan Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	30-60 mins
Suggested Age	16 and up
Expansion For	Dig Your Way Out
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Dig In is an expansion for DYWO that introduces the prison warden and 7 new places. Bringing many novel options and strategies to the table, this expansion pushes DYWO’s already great replayability to its limits!

As its beautiful cover hints at, Dig In contains the prison Warden. This non-playable character walks around the board and sends bad-mannered inmates to solitary confinement. On the other hand, you can go to her office and bribe her in advance with cigarettes so she can help you get an edge over other inmates later.

This expansion also offers 6 new places that can be used as alternatives to existing places on the board. They change the actions available in each place and add many more options to dig your way out. Each of these new places is optional and independent from one another, allowing you to build a different and unique prison layout, every time you play.

In the Library you can rehabilitate yourself to get a new Background as well as get smart enough to spy on the hands of other players.

In the Gambling cells you can gamble using cigarettes but you can also plan (on toilet paper!) your next moves in advance.

In the Laundry joining a gang becomes easier and you can also get bandages to craft or heal yourself later.

In the Workshop you can hone your digging skills or upgrade the Tools that you already have.

In the Gym you can work out to be prepared for future fights, or even start a brawl with every player in the place!

Finally, if you send prisoners to the Psychiatric ward, they will get psychological Trauma that will hinder their actions, until they can heal it.

—description from the publisher

Dig Your Way Out

2021-09-02T05:58:43-04:00

Vendor: Borderline Editions
Type: Board Games
Price: 60.95

Designer	David Simide
Publisher	Borderline Editions
Players	2-6
Playing Time	40-45 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion	Dig Your Way Out: Dig In Expansion
Additional Info	266504/dig-your-way-out http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/266504/dig-your-way-out/forums/63

Dig Your Way Out is a game created by David Simide in which you play the role of an inmates trying to escape from prison. Be the first prisoner to dig your hole. Craft tools with salvaged materials, buy them with cigarettes, or extort them from other players, the end justifies the means!

The main goal is to reach the required tunnel points (which can change according to the number of player) representing the progress of your tunnel.

On his turn, a player has 2 actions, which he can choose to spend in:

Searching: he draws the number of Search cards indicated on the place he's in
Moving: he rolls the die to determine where he can go
Joining a gang if he has the matching accessories, and get their passive buff
Crafting if he has the corresponding cards
Playing an action card
Extorting another inmate (extortion is divided into 2 stages:

Intimidation in which the attacking player names the tools he wants to extort (a shovel, a pick or a spoon). The targeted player may then cooperate and give it right away, avoiding combat. Or defend himself, launching combat.

Combat: Taking turns, the two players play before them Weapon cards form their hand, beginning by the defender. Once a player can’t or won’t play a Weapon card, they loose the combat.

If the defender looses, they have to give to the attacker the Tool they ask for. If the defender doesn’t have this card in hand or if the loser is the attacker, the winner picks one card, randomly chosen, from the loser’s hand. The loser takes 1 Beating.

Some actions can only be performed in certain locations:

cell block: dig, place one and only one Tool card (Spoon, Pick or Shovel from your hand on your Prisoner board. You immediately score the number of Tunnel points indicated on the card.
recreation area: Buy and sell, the local currency is cigarettes.
infirmary: Heal, remove 1 beating.(a player with 1 beating can't perform the craft action, a player with 2 beating can't perform neither the craft nor the dig action.)
cafeteria: steal a spoon.

Dig your way out requires to permanently be aware of what other players have in their hand. Thus you can know who to extort and who is a threat for you.

Although picking up tools or weapon is visible to everyone, there are plenty of ways to prevent other inmates from being too pushy: action cards, gang passives and above all your background card.

Background cards are powerful one-shot abilities, which can change the game when used at the right time. And this is even more true when you belong to the relevant gang.

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Dig Your Way Out: Dig In Expansion

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