Liars Dice

Hello everyone, let’s see if I can ramble about this for a little bit longer then last week’s blog. 

This week’s board game was about Liars Dice.  It involved editing the feedback loops to see if we’d be able to make the pretty simple game any more enjoyable.  I believe we succeeded, though dice games in the first place can’t exactly cause crits for me, but I digress.

The rules on Liars dice I won’t both writing out, I’ll just direct you to here and then you can come back and check out what we added.

Back? Okay great! Now let me briefly covered what we considered to be the positive feedback loops in this game.

The triggering action: Player loses a die. This being caused from failing a bluff, or missing a bluff call.

The loop: The player loses a die -> The player’s chances to loose increase. This being that the less die you own, the less accurately you can guess the amount on the table.

The way I thought we could make the stakes more interesting is to simply add more dice to the mix.  This particular addition doesn’t solve anything directly, but I feel that adding more dice to the pot increases the amount of available numbers on the table, making the numbers one could guess far more diverse and interesting.

My rule is more contributing when combined with my teammates rule additions. They’re as followed:

·         Limit the number of players from 2-6 to 2-4 – to allow less competition for the losing player.

·         Add the addition of the “house cup”. This cup has 7 dice that all players can see to add to the guessing pot. (The player must call any value more than what is shown by the house cup. For example: if the house cup is showing 3 twos, 2 threes, 1 four and 1 six, then the player can call 4 twos or 3 threes etc.) – help the losing player to call by providing him 7 additional dice (though, those dice are also seen by the other players!).

·         Finally if a player only has 1 die, he can gain 2 of his dice back if he correctly catch another player’s bluff – this will gradually increase his winning chance.

That’s it! Cheers.

-Jordon