Full Years After the Original, Robo Rally Dice Is a Chaotic Spinoff Board Game With Some Fresh Mechanics

Robo Rally Dice brings the chaotic, programmed-movement spirit of RoboRally back 32 years after the original, but with a dice-based twist aimed at changing how turns are built. The design is credited to Kane Klenko rather than Richard Garfield, whose earlier work created the programmed movement subgenre later popularized by the robot-racing franchise. In the game, players pre-select actions as dice with custom movement symbols are added one by one to a personal mat. A player rolling a five-dice set stops after calling each six, but after three sixes any incomplete set must be used, ending turn planning under pressure. This shifts the challenge from perfect card forecasting to managing randomness and time constraints on a modular board.