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The Curse of the Black Dice

#170437BGG ↗

2015 · 2-4 players · 40min · weight 1.74 · 267 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
170437
Name
The Curse of the Black Dice
Year
2015
Rank
12754
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
40
Min playtime
20
Max playtime
40
Avg weight
1.7368
Num weights
19
Bayes avg
5.55392
Average
6.1181
Users rated
267
Num owned
356
Wanting
6
Wishing
90
Num comments
72
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Dice RollingSet Collection
Categories (5)
AdventureDiceFightingNauticalPirates
Description (1148 chars)

The Curse of the Black Dice is a pirate-themed dice game driven by a random mission generator and four possible mission types. The missions are generated by rolling a handful of black dice to determine the difficulty of each part of the mission. By rolling their own player dice and with the help from the pirate crew, the players try to get at least the same amount of dice to each mission part to fulfill this part. Each part grants rewards and penalties, and each mission has another endgame trigger condition: Each mission gives a reward if the crew fulfills it and punishment if they don't. What's more, if pirates don't fulfill the mission, they also risk that the next part of mission will be more difficult because of the curse of the black dice. In the end, only the player who has captured the most amount of gold wins — that is, if the ship doesn't sink and take all players to the bottom of the ocean with it. Sail together to find treasures, board ships, plunder villages, or even kill the mighty Kraken...and betray the other players when they don't expect it. There can be only one winner, but all players can lose together!

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.