Played a pretty cool dice game tonight: all you need is 6d6

[thewayne]

A friend learned it at a steampunk con in San Deigo from a bunch of pirates and taught it to us tonight.

Take six 6-sided dice, throw them. The objective is lowest total score. You must set aside at least one die every throw, so you'll throw them a maximum of six times. Any thrown 3 counts as zero, so the lowest possible score would be zero or 1. Pass the dice to the next person, they throw to try to beat the first person's score.

That's all there is to it. It's pretty fun, and very quick to play a round.

[ETA that you must set aside at least one die every throw]

Comments

[lovelyangel]

You're saying you must set aside at least one die every throw, correct? So if you threw six 3s the first throw, you're done. And the lowest possible score is just zero.

[thewayne]

That is correct, I've edited my post to (hopefully!) clarify the point.