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Kniffel Dice Duel

Combinations and bonuses

A classic game among dice games featuring poker-related combinations has been newly interpreted. You use five dice; even numbers 2, 4 and 6 are red, odd numbers 1, 3 and 5 are black. The bottom of the tin is used for a dice tray and has seven positions holding four chips each in seven values: 5 for two pairs, 10 for a triplet, 20 for a Small Straight of four consecutive dice values, 25 for a Flush, 30 for Full House, 40 for a quadruplet and 50 for a Big Straight of five consecutive dice values. For all combinations but the Flush, the colors of the results do not matter; in a Flush, all results must show the same color, their values are irrelevant.

The active player rolls five dice and can re-roll twice to achieve one of the combinations and take the corresponding chip. If you rolled Kniffel - five identical values - you take a chip of your choice, but only from the dice tray and never from another player, and have another turn. If all have been active once in a round and nobody has achieved a combination and taken a chip, you set aside a chip of the currently highest value. If you roll Kniffel, you can also select on of those chips.

When all chips have been taken, you add your collected chips and bonuses - 50 points for one chip of each value; 20 points for six different chips; 30 points for all four chips of one value and 20 points if you took the last chip - and you win with the highest total.

Kniffel as we like and know it, and yet different enough to be of interest and fun to play; the points chips and the optional chip for Kniffel allow for some tactic and even a bit of strategy as regards the bonuses.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Thierry Denoual

Artist: designstudio1.de

Price: ca. 27 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2019

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Dice combinations

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Compares to:

All variant of Kniffel

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0