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Freely available dice games, listed alphabetically
(click on the game's entry for more info)
[0-9]
- [10-Die Poker] -
A clever little poker game that takes gobs and gobs of dice.
- [30] -
Solitaire dice game in which you get to throw the dice exactly 30 times. If you are efficient with your
early tosses, you can use your saved throws to improve your score.
- [36d6] -
Board game using 36 six-sided dice -- each player tries to capture as many dice as
possible
[A]
- [All the Way Down] -
It is the dawn of time and the cosmic turtles are gathering. Each turtle wants to be the one at the top of
the tower that will eventually hold up the world.
- [Alphatian Roulette] -
The most violent game in the world (after chess, that is). Played with 5 six-sided dice, you attempt to
massacre your opponent by inflicting ten points of damage on him.
[B]
- [Bogart] -
A push-your-luck type dice game played with 4-sided dice and poker chips.
[C]
- [Cephalopod] -
Played on a 5 x 5 board, players take turns adding their dice to the board,
attempting to capture and place on the same turn. The player who occupies the
majority of the board when the board is filled wins.
- [Climb On!] -
A battle of ascension for 2 players where you try to score more points than your
opponent by climbing your largest dice as far up the mountain as you can before the
game ends.
- [CMYK] -
A Chinese Checkers variant played with 4-sided dice.
- [Conversion] -
A funky board game that uses dice as game pieces. Roll a die, place it on the board. If it’s higher than your
opponent’s adjacent dice, they’re converted into your dice. Whoever has the highest total results by the
time the board is filled is the winner.
[D]
- [Dadama] -
A checkers-like game for two that uses dice instead of checkers.
- [Dice Box] -
Object: To place colored dice on a grid in a way that maximizes your points and
minimizes the points that you must concede to your opponents
- [Dicefest] -
A strategic, abstract board game for two, three or four players who must manipulate their dice and get them to
the other side of the board to win.
[F]
- [Flip] -
A dice game where the object is to drive your opponent out of dice.
[H]
- [Himmel und Hölle] -
A battle between the forces of Heaven and Hell. Who will be the better general?
[K]
- [Katego] -
Reiner's exciting family game from his book Dice Games Properly Explained.
- [Kidult: The Game] -
Goal of the game: to build up the word Kidult using 6 dice.
- [Knatsch - Das Turnierspiel] -
Once a year the king organizes a gigantic tournament. The participants argue about the favor of castle and
about the profit of castles. But the life as knights is, as well known, not completely harmless. Who has too
many wounds has no hope for total victory by itself. The player with most points of fame wins the tournament.
- [Knucklebones] -
Perhaps the most popular game played among the Romans. It resembled the game of dice except that sets of
marked bones were used, called tali or knucklebones.
[M]
- [Mecha Dice] -
A free Mecha Combat dice game. Each player uses special dice to represent their
M.E.C.H.A (Machine Enhanced Combat Hazard Armor).
- [Monster in the Cabbages] -
Monster in the Cabbages is a quick-playing dice game for two to five cabbage
harvesters. Your goal is to harvest as many cabbages as you can.
[P]
- [Polywars] -
In this light tactical wargame, the players pit forces of dice against each other in
mortal combat. There are no miniatures; the dice themselves fight their own battles.
Now they can enjoy the glory of battle and so can you!
[R]
- [Reiner Knizia's Decathlon] -
Ten games in one! Reiner's ultimate game of armchair athletics, from the 100 Metres
to Pole-Vault.
- [Roll Out the (Gun) Barrels] -
Well, here's a very cheap way to simulate large battles without having to deal with maps and counters and
fifteen hours per turn. Also includes variants for fantasy/medieval battles (ROtGB: Mediveval Strife)
and for space opera-style star battles (ROtGB: Star Strife).
- [RYB] -
Mix colors with dice to capture goals from two to five players. Object: To complete
Goal cards and gain points by rolling different combinations of colored dice.
[S]
- [Saoirse!] -
To build scoring sets of dice – pairs, threes and fours – of 'suits' associated with
Irish Republican history.
- [Shannon] -
An elegant abstract game inspired by Sudoku and Triple Triad, a CCG mini-game in Final Fantasy 8 --
you place dice on a chess board, converting your opponent’s dice to your color hoping to score the most points
at the end of the game.
- [Statements] -
The Enron Game! You and your friends are part of a major corporate malfeasance scheme, together you build
up lots of money, blow the whistle on each other and desperately try to get as many beans as possible
before the feds catch wind of the cover-up.
[T]
- [Tipped Tacs] -
Tipped Tacs is a game of tic-tac-toe using die faces as the instrument of victory.
The die are not placed individually on the grid as in normal tic-tac-toe, but
'tipped' based on strategy.
[Y]
- [Yenta] -
Yenta is based on a game by Aaron Richards called 'Stoopid Cupids,' sort of a cross
between Liar's Dice and Go Fish.
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