Helena Kling writes to tell me that the dice in the Cribbage board are "poker dice", five dice with sides 9 through Ace. The object of the game is to roll the best hand (after two or three throws, I guess).Humps and Horns is a rodeo board game that is also looking to sell it's own license. Price: $250,000 . "Humps and Horns" is a trademark, and apparently also a commonly used phrase in the cattle community.
The uberGeek comic strip User Friendly published a board game over the past three weeks: board, pieces, and rules.
A Salon writer describes an interesting variation on Clue that she used to play as a kid, where the object was to perpetrate, rather than solve, the murder.
Yehuda
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In my family, we typically played Poker Dice as a gambling game with 5-10 players. Ante up (we played a dime), the best poker hand would win the pot, and start the next round. The only real interesting choice was for the first player. They could set how many rolls (1, 2 or 3) everyone would get. So, if you rolled a straight on your first roll, that was usually enough to possibly make it around. Full house might be good enough with 2 rolls, depending on the number of players.
Thanks for the info, zaph.
Funny I didn't see any mention of "other" types of dice in Reiner's book on Dice Games.
Yehuda
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