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A working example of the Player Board in Pay Dirt. (Not necessarily the final art or graphic design)
The very handy Voit Excavator
One of the many hardships you'll face mining for gold in frigid Alaska.
The FlimCo line of equipment available in Pay Dirt. Be careful, while FlimCo is an inexpensive way to upgrade your equipment's efficiency if a piece of FlimCo equipment is at full wear at the end of the work phase it is destroyed at the end of your turn.
These are the three personnel in Pay Dirt that allow you to avoid specific hardships. Very handy personnel to hire.

Pay Dirt (2014)

Players
2–5
Best: 4
Playing time
90–90 min
Age
13+
6.66
Average rating
748
Ratings
2.56/5
Weight
#5206
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Designer:Tory Niemann
Artist:Darrell Louder, Naomi Robinson
Publisher:Crash Games
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 4, Interaction 7, Complexity 5.1, Theme 5
Strategy7.0
Luck4.0
Interaction7.0
Complexity5.1
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

Pay Dirt is an engine-building, worker placement game set in frigid Alaska for 2-5 players. Players are competing to manage and grow their entire mining outfit while acquiring the most gold before the ground is too frozen to dig. The Alaskan countryside is an inhospitable environment, so players will face hardships that affect their entire outfit – not to mention the ever-dropping temperature that will shut down their operation.

In Pay Dirt players start with a small basic crew, an unimpressive claim, mediocre equipment and just a little bit of cash to make a go in one of the toughest competitions this side of the globe. Gold mining isn’t cheap and players will have to sell their gold throughout the game to keep the equipment running and their workers happy. Through clever use of their equipment and workers, players can make their mining outfits more efficient and dialed in to their preference of play. Will you recruit heavily and stack your camp with workers or will you keep your eyes on better and more efficient equipment? Will you have what it takes to hit to strike it rich and hit pay dirt?

Expansions

Pay Dirt: The Last Frontier Mini Expansion
Pay Dirt: Spectral Mini-Expansion
Pay Dirt: Old Timer, 1899er Mini-Expansion
Not available yet

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