Game Categories: Board Games / Card Games / Dice Games / Party Games
Dice Games
- Alba Longa
- $60.00
- Martian Dice
- $14.95
Dice have been around longer than recorded history and have long been a favorite method of randomizing results. It was inevitable that dice games would be popular. As dedicated gamers and game designers have desired more control over what they can do, dice have been shunned as being too random.
Yet dice games within groups of gamers still remain very popular. This probably comes from a desire to exert control over randomness, to feel in control. To achieve in the face of unfavorable dice roles.
Types of Dice Games
- Roll & Keep Dice Games
- Dice Drafting Games
- Push Your Luck Dice Games
- Bluffing Dice Games
- "Easy" Dice Games
Roll & Keep Dice Games
These games are characterized by rolling dice, choosing dice to keep, and rolling again. In this way, a player chooses sets of dice to keep and attempts to build a specific combination of dice. Games in this genre include Martian Dice and Yahtzee.
Dice Drafting Games
In dice drafting games, players will roll the dice and then proceed to use the results as they choose. For example, let's say a player rolls 3 dice and gets a 3, 4, and 5. In some dice drafting game, that player could choose to take the actions associated with the number 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 12 (or combinations thereof).
This allows for a diverse number of choices resulting from the randomness of dice. Games in this genre include, Alba Longa, Kingsburg, and Troyes.
Push Your Luck Dice Games
Push your luck dice games have the distinctive choice of scoring now or pushing your luck to get a better score. This can provide difficult choices, and plenty of opportunities to point out, "A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush." Games in this genre include Martian Dice and Farkle.
Bluffing Dice Games
Since dice are random, but more predictable than a deck of cards, bluffing games have resulted from dice. Liar's Dice is a good example of a dice game fitting into this category. In this game, players start with 5 or 6 dice and have to "guess" how many dice of a certain type there are total between all players. Eventually, somebody will call, and the player that is wrong will lose 1 die. This happens until there is only one player with dice left, who is the winner.
"Easy" Dice Games
These are games where you roll the dice and see what happens. That is what makes them easy. Games that fall into this category include, LCR and Craps.
- Alba Longa
- $60.00
- Martian Dice
- $14.95
Dice have been around longer than recorded history and have long been a favorite method of randomizing results. It was inevitable that dice games would be popular. As dedicated gamers and game designers have desired more control over what they can do, dice have been shunned as being too random.
Yet dice games within groups of gamers still remain very popular. This probably comes from a desire to exert control over randomness, to feel in control. To achieve in the face of unfavorable dice roles.
Types of Dice Games
- Roll & Keep Dice Games
- Dice Drafting Games
- Push Your Luck Dice Games
- Bluffing Dice Games
- "Easy" Dice Games
Roll & Keep Dice Games
These games are characterized by rolling dice, choosing dice to keep, and rolling again. In this way, a player chooses sets of dice to keep and attempts to build a specific combination of dice. Games in this genre include Martian Dice and Yahtzee.
Dice Drafting Games
In dice drafting games, players will roll the dice and then proceed to use the results as they choose. For example, let's say a player rolls 3 dice and gets a 3, 4, and 5. In some dice drafting game, that player could choose to take the actions associated with the number 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 12 (or combinations thereof).
This allows for a diverse number of choices resulting from the randomness of dice. Games in this genre include, Alba Longa, Kingsburg, and Troyes.
Push Your Luck Dice Games
Push your luck dice games have the distinctive choice of scoring now or pushing your luck to get a better score. This can provide difficult choices, and plenty of opportunities to point out, "A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush." Games in this genre include Martian Dice and Farkle.
Bluffing Dice Games
Since dice are random, but more predictable than a deck of cards, bluffing games have resulted from dice. Liar's Dice is a good example of a dice game fitting into this category. In this game, players start with 5 or 6 dice and have to "guess" how many dice of a certain type there are total between all players. Eventually, somebody will call, and the player that is wrong will lose 1 die. This happens until there is only one player with dice left, who is the winner.
"Easy" Dice Games
These are games where you roll the dice and see what happens. That is what makes them easy. Games that fall into this category include, LCR and Craps.
