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Zock ‚n‘ Roll

Kniffel re-rolled

A version of Kniffel, played in stages of three rounds each:

Each player has a dice cup that is open on top and bottom plus two dice of his color. For round 1 of a stage all players throw their two dice into their cup and check the result by looking into the cup from the top, but do not lift the cup! Then the starting player rolls three white dice. Now each player tries to form the highest possible scoring combination with the result of the three white dice and of his two dice. When someone wants to quit, he lifts his cup, marks “quit in round 1” and also his combination on his board, always in the first free case from the left. In round 2, the starting player rolls a fourth white die and again all still in play decide on quitting + marking or on staying. In round 3 the last white die is rolled and then all still in play lift their cups – whoever can now form the combination of highest value marks it and also marks “3^rd round won” on the board.

When someone marks the 6^th case in a row, the game continues to the end of round 3 in the current stage and then you win with most points. You score the number of points at the end of a row for each tick in the row, one point for each „quit in round 1“ and as many points as there are players for each „3rd round won“. Whoever achieved the highest total score wins.

In the advanced version you use the backside of the scoring boards and three dice of your own, and can use maximum six dice for a combination.

Kniffel with cream, so to say, a very nice variation of the Kniffel mechanism with a large serving of risk of stay/quit, simple, fast and really very very good.

Players: 3-6

Age: 8+

Time: 40+

Designer: Jörg von Rüden

Artist: Anne Pätzke

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2016

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Dice, risk

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Well-working Kniffel version

High-quality components

Good rules

Includes an advanced version

Compares to:

Kniffel and other dice games on poker combinations

Other editions:

Currently none

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