Dice game
Encyclopedia
Dice games are games
that use or incorporate a die
as their sole or central component, usually as a random device.
Some collectible dice games include:
Game
A game is structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements...
that use or incorporate a die
Dice
A die is a small throwable object with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers...
as their sole or central component, usually as a random device.
Collectible dice games
Patterned after the success of collectible card games, a number of collectible dice games have been published. Although most of these collectible dice games are long out-of-print, there is still a small following for many of them.Some collectible dice games include:
- Battle diceBattle diceBattle dice is a dice game that uses small figures which represent superheroes that are placed inside a die, and then rolled. It was created by Genie Toys and licensed to Playmates and it began with the majority of the superheroes and supervillains from Marvel in 2006.-Purchasing:The figures can be...
- Cookie Fu
- DicelandDiceland (dice game)Diceland is a tabletop game played with collectible sets of dice designed by Toivo Rovainen and James Ernest and released in 2002 by Cheapass Games.Players roll paper cut-out octahedral dice into a combat arena....
- Dragon DiceDragon DiceDragon Dice is a collectible dice game originally made by TSR, Inc., and is published today by SFR, Inc. It is one of only a handful of collectible dice games produced in the early 1990s. In 1995, Dragon Dice won the Origins Award for Best Fantasy or Science-Fiction Board Game...
(SFR, Inc.)
External links
- Dice Play - rules and more for many dice games