How to play Roll the Bones
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2024
- Learn the rules to the dice game Roll the Bones quickly and concisely - This video has no distractions, just the rules.
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RULES:
The object of the game is to collect all the dice. Give each player 10 dice and one 12-sided “bone” die. At the start of each round in a 4-6 player game, each player must ante any 1 die from their collection into the center of the table, forming a center pot. In a 2-3 player game, players ante 2 dice instead. When a player runs out of dice, they are eliminated from the game. Each time a player is eliminated, increase the ante amount by 1.
There are no turns, all play happens simultaneously. After anteing up, every player rolls one die from their collection. To roll the bone die, you must announce it before everyone rolls, after which, other players may choose to announce a bone die as well or decide not to roll their bone die if they had already announced to roll it, which they must announce as well. If you fail to announce your bone die before everyone rolls, then you automatically lose the round and your bone die goes to the center pot.
The player with the highest number collects the center pot, and all the rolled dice from the other players, and adds them to their collection. If there is a tie, then all players add their dice to the center pot and the tied players ante again. then roll again, with a new die from their collection. Repeat this process until 1 payer has the highest die roll, who then collects the pot and the other rolled die. Each tiebreaker roll can be with any type of die, regardless of what you rolled previously. Each bone die must still be announced.
If, during a tiebreaker, one of the players runs out of dice to roll, then their final die does not go into the pot from the tiebreaker round, but, instead, both tiebreaker players keep their last rolled die and they roll again. The player with multiple dice may still swap to a different die if they want. If the tie is between more than 2 players, then side pots are used. If a player is unable to ante the full amount, then they ante what they can, while retaining 1 die, and the other players ante the remaining amount to a side pot.
Whenever a player is down to their last die, they must keep it. If the player with the one die wins, then they collect all the rolled dice and all the dice in the center pot if they had ante’d to it that round; then the player with 2nd highest roll collects the dice in the side pot.
If the player with 1 die did not ante to the center pot and has the highest roll, then they only collect the rolled dice from the other players. The second highest die would then collect everything else. Otherwise, the player with the highest roll collects all the dice rolled in both the center and side pots.
For a simpler game with younger players, don’t play with side pots, but rather when a player can’t ante the full amount, then all the other players match whatever that player could ante. When a player loses all their dice, they are eliminated from the game and the ante increases by 1. The last player remaining, wins!
I like this idea... it's also super easy to play with generic dice if someone knows the rules, too!
How does a game involving two types of dice sound so confusing
It does not sound confusing to me. Pretty straightforward.
It's poker without hand rankings
Pirate!
Just wait till you hear about dnd. They got 7 different types of dice over there.
Why are we here? Because we're here. Roll the bones, roll the bones.
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Why does it happen? Because it happens. Roll the bones.
This game seems to be 99% luck, the only real ‘strategy’ is deciding if it’s worth using the bone dice or not
Can you guys do Insane Monopoly next?
Okay, that wording really confused me. There ARE turns, it's just that the actions in them are simultaneous. You can't just keep rolling die faster than anyone and outroll everyone.
he said that, all turn simultaneously
It might be easier to think if it as a ‘turn’ is for a single person, and a ‘round’ is for all players, so there are no turns since the entire round happens at once
So essentially gambling but with dice
More or less. It's just Poker betting, but with no way to fold.
Why wont you use always the bonete die?
If you lose the round, you lose that die. It may not be a good idea if many other players are also rolling bone dice and the chance of losing is higher. That's why the pre-round declaration mechanism is there; all players go into a round with full knowledge of everyone's odds.
Risk versus reward, and the more player play with bone dice, the more problematic it can be. Theore bone dice wage in, the more one player has bone die, meaning they become more powerful. That bone die need to be considered.
Because if you are not the highroll, you not only lose the die in the pot, but also the die you rolled, meaning you now lost your bone die.
So does the bone dice do anything different?
I see the bone dice have zero face, maybe they have number between 0-11?
Also i dont believe he covered it in the video, whats stopping me from rolling the bone die every turn to get the best odds?
@@aperson3787 hard to say, but I think if you roll the bone dice, that bone dice can be think of as a pay to other player too(just like a normal dice in game)
@@aperson3787 It's a risk reward thing. If you use the bone die because you want a higher number, you risk losing the bone die for the rest of the game.
Nope. It just has more faces than a 6-sided die. You can use it to win fairly often, but the faces are numbered 0 to 11, meaning that even if no one else rolls the bone die, you only have _5_ chances instead of 6 to outright steal the pot, and there's always a small but definitely non-zero chance that you'll fail _catastrophically_ and roll a zero. And of course, rolling too low on the bone die means losing your most powerful die and having to pray for the luck to win a new one.
Why does the dice look suspiciously like my bones?
Can the next video be chinese chess?
is that a chonny jash reference
A 0% skill, 100% luck game. How sad
That is the entire reason dice were even invented
You mean like every dice game?
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Why are we here? Because we’re here.
*The rules are the same as rolling human bones except for these changes*
Sorry the rules are irrelevant but it just sounds like it
How's that yu gi oh video doing
It's all fun and games until someone brings the d20
Roll the Bones... sus name
Why are chess variants getting so old 😢