Dice Pool Party

Dice Pool Party is a party game – of sorts – for 2-8 players. But unlike many party games that have cards that do wacky things, this feels more like a cross between a classic parlour game and a memory test by a persistent psychoanalyst.

Everyone gets a sheet and a pen or pencil. The dice are thrown into the box and the lid placed on top. Someone gives the box a rattle – you can take turns doing this – and then reveals the dice… but only for a very short period of time, counting down “3-2-1-splash” before replacing the lid.

During those few seconds, your objective is to get enough to a sense of what the dice offer to now choose a scoring criteria on your scoresheet. All the green dice? All the fives?? All the matching pairs??? What about the combined value of every single die???? Everyone chooses a category and then the dice a revealed again so everyone can score, before repeating the process. Like the classic dice-chucker Yahtzee, the game will continue until everyone has scored each category, although players will obviously vary in what order they fill them in. The colours, numbers and all-dice categories simply score their number value. The matching pairs (number and colour!) will score ten points per pair. And the player with the most points wins.