Panda Royale

Panda Royale is a dice-chucking game where the panda theme is entirely irrelevant! You spend ten rounds rolling dice, and hope to come out the other end with the biggest score.

Each player starts with a basic yellow die (six-sided) and in round one, that’s all you get. From round two onwards, the lowest scoring players will get a ‘pity die’ (twelve-sided) and a bunch of new dice are drawn from the bag, which are drafted by the players, adding one extra die to your supply. Blue dice (six, eight and ten-sided) score their pip value BUT if you have a sparkly six-sided blue die, you get to double the total. Purple dice (eight and ten-sided) always double. Green just score their pip value, but they are twenty-sided, so can potentially pay out big. White dice score their value but can be ‘traded’ – it’s a forced exchange – with another player’s die at the end of the round. And finally red dice are a high-risk, high-reward strategy: you score the pip total of all red dice multiplied by the number of red dice you have. The catch is that low numbers on the red dice have a negative value!

At the end of round ten, everyone will have ten dice each (plus the possibility of a pity die) and the player with the most points wins.