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INTRODUCTION:
What is Greed? Greed is a fun
little dice game which asks the question how far are you willing
to stretch your luck in order to score points? The rules are simple
and the game requires ten 6-sided dice and a paper and pencil.
RULES:
Each player takes a turn. A
turn involves one or more throw of the dice. Every person taking
one turn is called a Round. The first player who takes a turn
is called the First Player. When a player begins a turn, he throws
all ten dice. He then scores points as per scoring below. If he
fails to score any points on his first throw, then his turn ends
and play passes to the person on his left.
After a player's first throw in a turn, he may decide to set aside those dice that scored points and throw the rest of the dice or to end his turn. If the player elects to end his turn, then he scores those points form his first throw. If a player elects to throw the remaining dice, then he scores points off of those remaining dice thrown. If the player scores no points from the second throw, his turn is ended and he scores NO POINTS. Otherwise, the player may continue to throw all remaining non-scoring dice over and over again until
If item #1, the player then
tallies his score and records it. If item #2, the player tallies
his score and then gets to start another turn immediately. If
item #3, the player loses all points for that turn.
If a player scores with all
ten dice, and then, while taking his bonus turn, he fails to score,
he does not lose the score from his previous turn. In addition,
if a player scores with all ten dice over the course of his bonus
turn, he gets another bonus turn, and so on for as long as he
keeps scoring with all ten dice.
SCORING:
If a single 1 is rolled.......................100
If two 1's are rolled.........................200
If three 1's are rolled.....................1,000
If a single 5 is rolled........................50
If two 5's are rolled.........................100
If three 5's are rolled.......................500
If three 2's are rolled.......................200
If three 3's are rolled.......................300
If three 4's are rolled.......................400
If three 5's are rolled.......................500
If three 6's are rolled.......................600
When dice are scored, they
are set aside and are not combined with dice scored from previous
throws. For exmaple, if on my first throw I roll a single 1 I
score 100 points. On my next throw, if I score two 1's, I get
another 200 points, I do not get to combine all three of my 1's
into 1,000 points.
In order for each player to
record his first score of the game, he must throw 1,000 points
in a single throw. If he fails to do this, his turn ends immediately,
and he must attempt to throw 1,000 points in a single throw his
next time up, lest his turn end. If a player does get his first
score by throwing 1,000 points or more in a single throw, his
turn is ended, but he records that score and plays normally from
now on. Thus, it is possible for a player to never throw 1,000
points for a first score and thus never score during the entire
game!
WINNING THE GAME: When one
player reaches a predetermined point total (usually 20,000), the
rest of the players throw to finish out that Round, and then the
person with the highest total wins.
EXAMPLE OF PLAY:
There are 3 players: Devin,
Sophie, and Judy. Devin is the First Player. The game begins with
Round 1.
Round 1:
Devin throws ten dice and rolls
1,1,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,5. That adds to 700, which is less than 1,000,
so Devin cannot record his first score. Sophie starts her first
turn. She throws ten dice. She rolls 1,1,1,2,3,3,3,4,4,5 for a
total of 1,350 points. Since this is more than 1,000, Sophie can
open. She records 1,350 points, and that ends her turn. Judy rolls
all ten dice and gets 1,2,2,2,3,3,5,6,6,6 for a total of 850.
This is below 1,000, so Judy cannot open.
Round 2:
Devin throws ten dice and rolls
1,2,2,2,3,3,3,4,5,5,6 for a total of 700, which is less than 1,000,
so Devin cannot record his first score. Sophie throws ten dice
and gets 1,1,2,2,2,3,4,5,5,5 which scores 900 using all but 2
dice. Sophie now must decide whether to roll the remaining 2 dice
or not. She chooses not to and records 900 points. Judy now throws
ten dice and gets 1,1,2,3,5,5,5,6,6,6 which scores 1,300 points,
which is above 1,000 so she can record her first score. Judy records
1,300 points.
Round 3:
Devin throws ten dice and rolls
1,2,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,6 which adds to 450 which is below 1,000 points,
so Devin cannot record his first score. Sophie rolls ten dice
and gets 1,2,2,3,3,3,4,5,5,6 which adds up to 500 points using
six dice. That leaves Sophie with four dice. She elects to roll
again. She rolls those remaining four dice and gets 1,3,4,4. This
scores 100 points, and since she scored points on this roll, she
may continue her turn or stop and record her score. She elects
to continue. She has three non scoring dice left and rolls them,
getting 2,4,5. This scores 50 points. Sophie has two dice left
and elects to roll, getting 5,5. This scores another 100 points.
Sophie has thrown all of her dice and scored with all of them.
Her turn ends and she tallies her turn's score (750 points). Since
she threw all ten dice, she gets a bonus turn. She throws ten
dice and rolls a 1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,4,6 for a total of 1,300 (she
does not get any points for the fourth 2, dice must be scored
exactly as shown in the point table above). She scored with seven
dice, leaving three left and elects not to throw any further.
So she scores a total of 1,300 for her bonus turn. Judy now throws
ten dice. She rolls 1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,6 for a total of 200 points
using three dice. She elects to throw again and gets 2,2,3,3,4,4,6
for no points! Since she scored no points, her turn ends and she
tallies no points at all for that turn!
I hope you enjoy this game!
I did not invent it. The game has been played since Elizabethan
times, although with various alterations and variants.
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