Board&Dice Is Coming Soon to PHD!

Board&Dice Is Coming Soon to PHD!

Board&Dice designs, develops, and publishes expert and escape room board games. They aim to make interesting, deep, and diverse products, each being a unique experience, and each sporting its own flavor and an engaging theme.

And now they’re coming soon to PHD! Learn more about a few of their popular titles below, and then scroll down for the full catalog that’ll be available through PHD soon.

Windmill Valley

It’s the late 19th century, and more than 9,000 windmills dot the landscape of the Netherlands, some of them purpose-built to dry the lowlands, called polders. In the polders between these windmills are fields filled with colorful tulips—the flower that once was a part of the turbulent history of the first financial bubble but is now simply a quintessential part of the Dutch landscape, especially on the famous Bloemen Route (or “Flower Route”).

Windmill Valley
Publisher: Board&Dice
Item Code: BND0083
MSRP: $60
Coming June 2025

In Windmill Valley, a game inspired by the Bloemen Route, you and up to three other players take on the role of tulip farmers and entrepreneurs. You will build and enhance your windmills, look for new tulip bulbs in foreign trades or among local vendors to buy and plant, and try to get an edge with hired help and lucrative contracts. Let your blooming fields make your competitors green with envy!

During their turn, players choose the action by rotating the wheels on their windmill board. During the game they can:

  • Enhance their wheels, by adding enhancements, to build their engine.
  • Plant tulips in their fields, which will score VP at the end of the game.
  • Build windmills on the main board to activate rewards from adjacent fields.
  • Hire helpers that provide bonuses for certain actions.
  • Get contracts for endgame scoring.
  • Visit the local market and conduct a foreign trade.

All in all, Windmill Valley is a lightweight game with quick turns, a smart action-selection mechanism, multiple options to build your engine, and a lovely setting.

Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun

Four millennia ago on the eastern bank of the Nile river was laid the foundation of the Temple of Amun-Ra. Over the course of two thousand years, the temple complex was gradually expanded and became widely known as “The Most Select of Places” (Ipet-Isut), boasting the largest religious building in the world. Today, the site is known as Karnak, located at Luxor in modern-day Egypt.

Join ancient Pharaohs in creating and growing one of the most impressive sites the world has seen, honoring the Egyptian gods Horus, Ra, Hathor, Bastet, Thoth, and Osiris. You must carefully manage the balance of your actions, preparing for the reckoning by the goddess Maat.

Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun
Publisher: Board&Dice
Item Code: BND0050
MSRP: $70
Available June 2025

The game board in Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun is divided into six sections, each associated with an Egyptian god: Horus, Ra, Hathor, Bastet, Thoth, and Osiris. In the center stands an impressive obelisk (Tekhenu) that casts its shadow onto different parts of the board. As a result, the area around the obelisk is divided into sunny, shaded, and dark sections, depending on how the obelisk casts its shadow at that particular moment. As the game progresses, the sun’s rotation alters which sections are sunny, shaded, or dark.

Each round, players draft dice and perform actions associated with the value of the die and the section from which the die was drafted. You must consider not only the general availability of dice but also which value die to draft. You must also consider the purity of the dice to draft, as you must balance your Pure and Tainted actions if you want to have a more favorable position in turn order.

Two scoring phases occur during the game, during which players earn victory points based on the workshops, quarries, buildings, statues and pillars they have built, as well as the happiness of their people and production capacity of their resources. However, players must also keep a healthy amount of resources around to sustain their population or they suffer negative consequences.

Tawantinsuyu: The Inca Empire

The great Sapa Inca Pachacuti turned to his offspring and ordered them to worship Inti, the Sun God, and to expand the Inca Empire as far as the llamas roam. With Chinchaysuyu, Antisuyu, Qullasuyu, and Kuntisuyu—the four regions of the new empire—now ripe for conquest, the time has come for Pachacuti’s true successor to arise.

Tawantinsuyu: The Inca Empire
Publisher: Board&Dice
Item Code: BND0051
MSRP: $60
Available June 2025

Gather your people from the villages below, and use their unique abilities to strategically place them where they can perform the greatest tasks for you. Climb the steps of the Sun Temple, reaping the rewards of your piety. Build structures that both nourish your people and provide you with benefits no other has at their disposal. Muster an army and conquer villages in the four realms of Tawantinsuyu. Prove yourself a worthy successor to Pachacuti and lead the Inca to glory!

During Tawantinsuyu: The Inca Empire, players place workers onto various locations on the game board, performing actions, collecting resources (potatoes, corn, stone, and gold), constructing buildings and stairs, sculpt statues, expanding their military strength, and collecting weavings. While some locations will result in you being able to perform multiple actions, other actions and placements may be more desirable, especially since each of the five types of workers has a unique ability. 

Army cards allow you to send one or more units to conquer villages in nearby regions. You must compete against the other players for control of each region as well as for valuable rewards that can be gained as a result of military conquest.

The game ends when the worker pool has become exhausted, symbolizing the full incorporation of nearby regions and villages into the newly risen Inca Empire. You then score bonus victory points from reaching the top of the temple, from your woven tapestries, and from various buildings and resources you have accumulated.

Board&Dice Catalog

Code Description MSRP
BND0034 Escape Tales: The Awakening $30.00
BND0041 Teotihuacan: Late Preclassic Period Expansion $37.50
BND0045 Escape Tales: Low Memory $35.00
BND0047 Teotihuacan: Shadow of Xitle Expansion $20.00
BND0048 Traintopia $40.00
BND0050 Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun $70.00
BND0051 Tawantinsuyu: The Inca Empire $60.00
BND0052 Escape Tales: Children of Wyrmwoods $35.00
BND0053 Teotihuacan: Expansion Period Expansion $37.50
BND0054 Mandala Stones $40.00
BND0057 Zapotec $50.00
BND0058 Origins: First Builders $70.00
BND0060 Tekenu: Time of Seth Expansion $35.00
BND0061 Tabannusi: Builders of Ur $70.00
BND0062 Founders of Teotihuacan $50.00
BND0063 Tawantinsuyu: Golden Age Expansion $35.00
BND0064 The Book of Rituals $15.00
BND0065 Mandala Stones: Harmony Expansion $15.00
BND0066 Lootbox #1 $25.00
BND0067 Terracotta Army $70.00
BND0068 Tiletum $60.00
BND0071 Origins: Ancient Wonders Expansion $20.00
BND0073 Power Core: Call of Cthulhu $60.00
BND0076 Nucleum $70.00
BND0077 Books of Time $50.00
BND0078 Teotihuacan Deluxe Master Set $200.00
BND0079 Teotihuacan 5th Player Expansion $35.00
BND0080 Barcelona $60.00
BND0081 Side Quest: 7th Sea $16.00
BND0082 Side Quest: Nemesis $16.00
BND0083 Windmill Valley $60.00
BND0084 Nucleum: Australia $30.00
BND0085 Barcelona: Passeig de Gracia Expansion $20.00
BND0086 Reef Project $50.00
BND0090 Side Quest: Frostpunk $16.00
BND0094 Minos: Dawn of the Bronze Age $60.00
BND0103 Side Quest: The Isle of Cats $16.00
BND0105 Nucleum: Court of Progress Expansion $25.00
BND0106 Nucleum: Patrons Set Booster Expansion $8.00
BND0119 Tiletum: Prospect for Silver Expansion $30.00
BND0150 Windmill Valley: Blooming Sails Expansion $20.00
BND0151 Minos: Dawn of Faith Expansion $20.00

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