Designed by: Chris Leder
Roll For It is a very simple game of rolling dice and claiming cards.
A bunch of cards are laid face-up on the table, and each one shows how many dice (and what numbers) are needed to claim it: it might be relatively simple (two dice) or rather tricky (six dice) and on your turn, you roll your dice once, and assign them however you like to the cards: dice assigned to a card stay there until the card is claimed by somebody. If you complete the card either immediately, or on a subsequent turn, you take it and everyone gets their assigned dice back. Each card has a points value, and the game is played until someone hits a victory point margin (usually 30 or 40 points)
There's no targeting or arbitrary nastiness at all, just the potential downside of someone nabbing the card you'd invested a lot of dice in....
Very low. Turns are simple and fast.
Not so much a burning as a warm glow.
The cards come out randomly and the dice obviously roll with a mind of their own. It's not a game that changes at all, other than in the beat-by-beat moments. They're enough to make Roll For It fun, but possibly not one to play over and over in the same sitting.
2-4
Players
6+
Years
15-30
Mins
Sam says
Hard to say whether this is too simple, or simple genius. The first time we played the immediate effect was underwhelm: roll dice, with less control or decision-making than Yahtzee. But the benefit of the highly restricted turns - there's no re-rolling - is that the game moves rapidly, and from a slightly pedestrian opening, accelerates into a place where everyone is yelling like desperate casino-dwelling gamblers, hoping and praying the number they need will come up. That's not to say Roll For It is a bona fide hit - it's extremely one note. But that note is a boisterous and resonant one.