I wrote a (free!) web game I’m calling Thirty Dots. It’s based on an old dice game called Yacht, and has absolutely nothing to do with another game sold by Hasbro that might look similar.
I’m putting it here because it has ads, that I hope someday generates a small amount of revenue for me, so please, go, play, have fun and tell someone else if you are so inclined!
Assuming someone was completely unfamiliar with the other “game sold by Hasbro that might look similar” you may want to lengthen the instructions to talk about what each of those categories are, and how they’re scored (plus what it takes to hit the pip bonus).
Well if it’s similar to another game I played once “quinces” would be when all of the dice have the same number on it and you are supposed to yell out “Yah…I mean Quinces!”
A fun little time-killer, but I’ll echo the need for more complete instructions.
And to nit-pick, I wonder if the rolling of the dice could be a little more… kinetic? animated? Not sure the word I’m going for, but you know what I mean. Make it a little more visually interesting.
Well, I’ve added info to the instructions about how the game is scored, and I’ve added an alert when you finish to tell you how good or bad you did.
I think that’s my ADD going, I dislike games that spend a lot of time on animations that don’t actually have much to do with the game play. So I don’t think that’s going to happen.
Although I kind of like the game I’ve been playing that sprinkles stars along the path the moving piece moves…
Thanks for all the compliments, folks!
May I suggest that perhaps you add shading to every other row so it’s a little easier to to read across an entire row? I’ve come close to marking my score in the wrong place a few times when my eyes were a little tired.
Fair point, but allow me to expand on my comment. Say I’ve frozen 4 dice and click to roll the remaining die. If by 1-in-6 chance it falls on the same number as it did the previous roll, nothing appears to happen, and I’m left to wonder if something went wrong and my mouse-click didn’t “take.” So just some small visual cue that the dice are indeed rolling would be nice, IMO.
Like I said, though, it’s a nit-pick. I like the game, and the enhanced instructions are great!
291, blew the four of a kind. Enderw24, did you hit several quinces in one game? Each extra one is worth a bonus (as well as counting as a wild hand for the bottom half).
I just had four quinces in the same game. It’s not impossible, but it’s so unlikely that I have to believe that the randomization is broken. I took a quick look at your rolling code, and I don’t see any obvious bugs, but something is not right.
I’ve noticed that the randomization seems a bit off too. Especially when you reroll two dice and hit the exact same two numbers quite a bit more often than the 1 out of 36 odds.
I just scored 520 points with three quinces in a game. Also somewhat unlikely. But I think what’s really the tip off re: the randomness is that MOST games I’m able to hit every single entry (except for quinces) and earn that 37 point bonus for the top half when I’m highly unlikely to perform such a feat with such regularity with five dice in real life.
I’ve played quite a few games over the last week or so, and have never managed more than 1 quinces in a game.
I do sometimes notice the apparent repetition of numbers upon rerolls, but that in itself could just be confirmation bias; you notice when it happens, but forget all the times when it doesn’t.