Back to the Future: Dice Through Time (35th Anniversary Playthru)

Here's the setup for playing Back to the Future: Dice Through Time on "Easy" mode. You play as your own year's version of Marty and Doc with your own time machine. Your objective: restore the time stream by returning items to their proper locations and years as depicted in the movies, keeping Biff out of your way in the doing.

The game uses a clever, family-friendly mix of dice pools, event management, and light strategic board movement to capture the fun feel and flow of the BTTF Trilogy.

After 1 round of play, we took care of 2 of the 3 events on the board, punching 1955 Biff out of the way, and the "OUTATIME" marker only moved one space. (If the OUTATIME marker reaches the end—space 12—that's game over!)

By the end of round 2, we managed to return the first two of the required eight items (Easy mode) to win: the Fax Marty received in 2015, and the Video Camera from 1985.

A few more rounds into it, we cleared enough events to claim all the items from 1885 and 1955, the latter becoming our problem year as evidenced by the 3 events that appeared on it. Returning items also yields random "Einstein tokens" (depicting Doc's dog), the reverse side of which essentially give you extra dice actions to take during your turn.

A round later, we were hit with a special event that places "Paradox tokens" (the round clocks) on events at locations where Biff is (if they don't already). Paradox tokens speed up the rate that the OUTATIME marker can move, but fortunately the game gives you a couple ways to deal with them.

Near the end, we're sitting pretty with all the items claimed from their respective timelines. All that remains is to return them to where they belong.

Here's the final state after winning! Cooperative games increasingly are my favorite to play, and sharing this inaugural experience with my wife (also a BTTF fan), and ultimately our kids, is sure to be replayed over and over, much like the movies.