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Explorium: A High Stakes Mining Extravaganza

Explorium: A High Stakes Mining Extravaganza

49th West Games, Inc. · 2004
2–6120 min12+ yrs2.5/5 complexity5.9 BGG91Strategy
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Explorium puts you in the hot seat of the world’s most risky and rewarding business...exploration and mining! Role-play as chairman and president of a junior exploration company.

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Explorium puts you in the hot seat of the world’s most risky and rewarding business...exploration and mining! Role-play as chairman and president of a junior exploration company. You must acquire un-tapped resources of copper, silver and GOLD— the king of metals and the metal of kings!

The fluctuations of the Metal Market Index will test your presidential ability to keep profits soaring. Meanwhile your competitors will be working feverishly to intimidate and threaten your projects by playing that elusive ace up their sleeve...the Global News Wire card.

In addition to staking claims all over the globe and expanding your influence in foreign nations, keep your drills to the ground for rumblings of possible joint-ventures and hostile takeover opportunities. Acquiring select properties allows you to expand your empire and not only produce profits from your mines, but also from playing the Metal Market Index to your advantage. Do you have the savvy and grit to build your penny trading junior exploration company to a full grown mining powerhouse?

Selling Highlights

  • Fun introduction to gold market

  • Real-world events

  • Anticipation of finds

  • Classic bank/credit notes
    Appeals to

  • Budding geologists

  • Investors, miners and entrepreneurs

  • Stock speculators or risk-takers

  • Negotiators, bidders and table-talkers

    Explorium is the only official mining board game endorsed by publicly listed corporations.

game anatomy
Complexity2.5 / 5
BGG rating5.9 / 10
Vibe
Strategy
Language dependence
Moderate text — a crib sheet helps
Play time
120 min
Players
2–6
Recommended age
12+ yrs
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Q3How do you play Explorium: A High Stakes Mining Extravaganza?
Explorium: A High Stakes Mining Extravaganza is a bluffing game, for 2–6 players, taking ~120 minutes, featuring auction / bidding. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Explorium: A High Stakes Mining Extravaganza — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Explorium: A High Stakes Mining Extravaganza support?
Explorium: A High Stakes Mining Extravaganza is played by 2–6 players.
Q5How long does a game of Explorium: A High Stakes Mining Extravaganza take?
A game of Explorium: A High Stakes Mining Extravaganza takes about 120 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Explorium: A High Stakes Mining Extravaganza for?
Explorium: A High Stakes Mining Extravaganza is recommended from age 12.
Q7How complex is Explorium: A High Stakes Mining Extravaganza?
Explorium: A High Stakes Mining Extravaganza has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 2.5 out of 5.
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