Alea Elementis - An Element of Chance

A simple push-your-luck game based on the public domain game Pig.

On your turn, simply roll both dice and see what comes up.

• If it's two different elements, you bust and lose any score you had for the round.
• If it's two of the same element, you get 1 point.
• If it's an element and a number, you score the number.
• If it's two different numbers, you add the numbers together.
• If it's the same number twice, add them together and add 10.

That's basically it!

The first to 150 points wins, just be careful, the dice are quite punishing and have a bust-rate of almost 30%! Can you overcome the odds?

The two dice share most of the same symbols, but are still different. This is to ensure an unpredictable probability distribution, which makes certain rolls much harder to attain than others.

The game was born out of a blog post on BGG, in which I try to reason about a way to create a game similar to Pass the Pigs, but where the quality of the rubber would be entirely eliminated as a factir by instead switching to dice.

This game is the culmination of that work.