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First Phase – Build Your Network

During the first phase, you and your friends share the same goal: to acquire the largest connected set of territories.

Through auctions and confrontations, you must:

• Expand your holdings
• Block your opponents
• Set up your position for the next phase

This phase lays the groundwork for the balance of power to come.

Second Phase – Owners vs. Workers

Once the first phase is over, the game changes. Depending on your situation, you take on a new role:

The Owners

If you control enough connected territories, you become an owner.

Your goal is clear:

• Slow down the progress of other owners
• Contain the actions of the workers’ union
• And most importantly, be the first to connect 6 territories to achieve a monopoly

The Exploited

If you don’t control enough connected territories, you become an exploited. The exploited form a union and play collectively against the owners.

Their goal is to:

• Sabotage the mine
• Hinder the expansion of the owners
• Prevent anyone from achieving a monopoly

The game then becomes a tense confrontation between individual interests and collective action.

À La Mine is neither a solo game nor a duel. It is designed to fully leverage the group dynamics found in board games: temporary alliances, collective opposition, tension, and betrayal.

Gather 3 to 6 players, enter the mine, and see who will come out on top!

À La Mine is the first game from Studio Dés Kréatifs (S.D.K.). We are a small team of passionate developers aiming to create new indie game experiences like À La Mine.

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