Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia Fan Site

Rating:	6.4 Fair
Popularity:	19
Difficulty:	Medium
Year:	2013
Players:	2-6 players
Playing time:	60 minutes
Age:	13+

Official Site: Stonemaier Euphoria Official Page

Created by: Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone, Jacqui Davis

Published by: Stonemaier Games, ADC Blackfire Entertainment, ADC Blackfire Entertainment GmbH

Alternate Names: Euphoira: Cestou k Lepší Dystopii, Euphoria: Construindo uma Melhor Distopia, Euphoria: Construisez une Meilleure Dystopie, Euphoria: Die perfekte dystopische Gesellschaft erschaffen, Эйфория: Построй лучшую антиутопию

Description:

Euphoria is a worker placement board game. You Lead a team of workers (6 sided dice) and recruits (cards) in order to get control over the dystopian world. The workers will gather, harvest and build to increase your influence among the four factions.

But watch out when your workers become too intelligent and get aware of their horrible lives because then they will leave you. It's important to keep your workers happy and stupid at the same time.

You also have two recruits at your disposal but one has yet to be convinced by reaching certain milestones in the game or by letting other players unwittingly reach those milestones for you.

The board is occupied by 4 different factions: the Euphorians (the elite), the Subterrans (workers), the Wastelanders (farmers and historians) and the Icarites (traders), and each of them is waiting for you to rewrite history. Are you willing to sacrifice enough to make the future better than the past?

To win the game, you will need get area control (by land grabbing), you need also to construct markets and gathering rare artifacts. The dystopian elite are willing to give you tracts of land in exchange for them.

Prices:

Retail Price:	$55
Amazon:	$54
Ebay:	$35

Expansions:

Euphoria: Participate In The Game or Watch It Played

Awards:

Mensa Select Winner 2014
Golden Geek Best Innovative Board Game Nominee 2013
Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Nominee 2013

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Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia Game Rules

Game Components

48 unique recruit cards
36 artifact cards
6 ethical dilemma cards
1 game board
24 worker dice
6 heart-shaped morale tokens
6 face-shaped knowledge tokens
45 resource tokens
72 commodity tokens
4 progress tokens
3 miner meeples
60 star-shaped authority tokens
16 unavailable territory markers
18 unique square market tiles
6 multiplier markers
8 circular allegiance bonus markers
3 unavailable action space markers
Rulebook

Setup

Unavailable Territory Tokens: Place the unavailable territory tokens on each territory star so that the remaining spaces equals the number of players. Thus for a 4-player game, 2 tokens would be placed on each territory. â€¦

Tips to win Euphoria

Focus on one faction's area on the board when teaching/learning Euphoria to reduce the amount of initial information.

Basic Theme

You're a low-level manager in a dystopia, and you're trying to use your workers to take over. Workers are dice, and the numbers on those dice represents their knowledge. Because it's a dystopia, you want your workers to be dumb and happy.

Win Condition

Place all 10 of your authority stars on the board or on your cards, and you win. â€¦

Advanced Variants for Euphoria

Recruit Draft

At the beginning of the game, draft recruits instead of drawing 4 and keeping 2. Deal 4 cards to each player, pick one, and pass the rest. Do the same until you're out of cards, then pick your 2 recruits and discard the rest.

Doubles House Rule

If you begin your turn with more than 1 available worker of the same knowledge, in order to place more than 1 of those workers on the same turn, you must lose 1 morale for each worker you place beyond the first before you place it. â€¦