Dice Hospital First Impressions

In Dice Hospital you’re trying to cure those sick and injured dice.

Those ambulances just keep on coming…

In Dice Hospital, a worker placement game, players must treat as many patients as possible to appease the local authorities!

Players use their hospital staff to treat patients on their personal hospital player boards. However, players may also call in specialist staff to react to certain situations that arise to score more points with the authorities!

The game uses worker placement mechanics for the staff, dice as the patients where low scores indicate low health and a personal player board of actions to treat patients. The player with the highest reputation wins the game!

Dice Hospital Summary

I’m pretty sure I’ve only played one other Hospital-Themed board game.

Quarantine is a (flawed) game where you built a Hospital out of square tiles and cubes qued at the door to get a treatment room. The basic tiles were strangely more powerful than the special tiles which seems a little weird.

There are comparisons with Zooloretto (Also the Dice Game) in a way but only because you’re drafting into your play area. But also you’re punished if you draft too many. In Dice Hospital, you’re limited to 12 Hospital beds so if you haven’t played well when it’s time to draft, you’ll lose points from the overflow.

That’s a bit of a stretch I know but it’s the closest drafting game I can think of.

Continuing with the drafting, it’s fun. A low pick means a higher pick of Hospital Rooms or Specialists but the patients will take more work. You also need to look at the colours of the dice to see if you can do something with them.

You can have a specialist colour you do well with depending on which rooms/specialists you’ve managed to get.

The worker placement part is really fun. It’s restrictive with each room only usable once and each patient only treatable once. But it’s not a frustrating restriction, it’s a fun puzzle to solve.

Jesta ThaRogue