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Game of Dice

As simple and elegant is its name, a game with dice, on dice, about dice, featuring 121 dice, 40 each in blue, red and yellow plus on white die. For those dice the rules list four different variants:  

Raffzahn – a quick game of collecting as many dice as possible. Each player faces one side of the pyramid; one rolls the white die and all search their side for free dice showing that number, only with one hand and you can take only one die at a time. Abquetschen – three players add their dice to the pyramid and try to cover opposing colors; you roll the white die and add as many dice to the pyramid, always adjacent to at least one die already in the pyramid. Bunte Kuh – all try simultaneously to shed their dice; 36 yellow dice are placed in the base; you get 10 dice and in your turn you roll the three remaining yellow dice, add their numbers and try to find a gap in the yellow dice where the sides add up to the same number to place one of your dice there. If you find one, you call “Stop” and place any die. If there is no corresponding gap you call “blank” and can place a die, too. Eintrichtern – you must remember sums of dice and uncover the same number; 36 yellow dice in the basis are covered with red dice. You roll three blue dice, add their values and lift one red die; if the number of the yellow sides below it equals the sum of the blue dice you keep the red die.

Of course these are only some of the games that could be played with those dice! You are challenged to invent your own games. And if you do not want to play, the beautiful pyramid is a very stylish deco object, too.

Players: 2-6

Age: 6+

Time: 30+

Designer: Reinhold Wittig, Erika Wittig, Uwe Beul, Jens-Peter Steuck

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 32 Euro

Publisher: Abacusspiele 2011

Web: www.abacusspiele.de

Genre: Dice game collection

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition featuring a reduced number of dice

Four versions listed

Highly incentive for inventing your own games

Beautiful decorative object

Compares to:

Das Spiel (previous editions)

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0