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I'm a huge fan of Descending Dice and thanks to Forever 87 for the post.
After playing this a few times, I've found that it's hard to get to the higher numbers. I've therefore amended this slightly as follows:
2 players are required. First decide on 8-10 dares (points 1-8/10), ideally incrementally harder. You can share a list, or have one each to match limits/likes.
Before starting, each roll a d6 to see who will start.
Now take it in turns to roll incrementally lower dice starting d20 (dice can be found e.g using bots on messenger - command is /roll {no. of dice}d{faces of dice} e.g. /roll 1d20).
Player 1: rolls d20
Player 2: rolls d19
Player 1: rolls d18....etc
Once a player rolls a 1, that player is the loser and has accumulated 1 point. The rolls keep going until either a d2 is rolled (d1 is not used) or the 'winning' player also rolls a 1 (this does not get counted as a point). At which point the round stops.
The difference - first 5 rolls are 3 dice, next are 2 dice, final ones are 1 dice each. This increases the likelihood of getting a 1 early. Once a player rolls a 1, the winning player switches to rolling just 1 dice and then has the chance to guess the roll they will get. If they match, that also increases the count by 1.
So theoretically the loser could have rolled several 1s before the game finishes.
The loser (say player 1) then gets the option to replay. This way if the other player loses in the next round, then player 1 can use any 1s player 2 gets to reduce their score, and perhaps player 2 now has the higher points tally! Warning though, if player 1 loses again, their points keep going up! Alt mode: you both just increase your scores cumulatively.
You can replay as many times as you want, with the current loser deciding whether you continue, but a minimum of 2 times must be played.
Each time, swap who goes first (starts with d20)
Example:
Player 1: 3d20 - 12, 10, 7
Player 2: 3d19 - 9, 7, 3
Player 1: 3d18 - 1, 5, 6 - Player 1 loses
Player 2 now rolls a 1d17 and they guess it will be 10. It is 10.
Player 1 now has 2 points
The game continues.
After playing this a few times, I've found that it's hard to get to the higher numbers. I've therefore amended this slightly as follows:
2 players are required. First decide on 8-10 dares (points 1-8/10), ideally incrementally harder. You can share a list, or have one each to match limits/likes.
Before starting, each roll a d6 to see who will start.
Now take it in turns to roll incrementally lower dice starting d20 (dice can be found e.g using bots on messenger - command is /roll {no. of dice}d{faces of dice} e.g. /roll 1d20).
Player 1: rolls d20
Player 2: rolls d19
Player 1: rolls d18....etc
Once a player rolls a 1, that player is the loser and has accumulated 1 point. The rolls keep going until either a d2 is rolled (d1 is not used) or the 'winning' player also rolls a 1 (this does not get counted as a point). At which point the round stops.
The difference - first 5 rolls are 3 dice, next are 2 dice, final ones are 1 dice each. This increases the likelihood of getting a 1 early. Once a player rolls a 1, the winning player switches to rolling just 1 dice and then has the chance to guess the roll they will get. If they match, that also increases the count by 1.
So theoretically the loser could have rolled several 1s before the game finishes.
The loser (say player 1) then gets the option to replay. This way if the other player loses in the next round, then player 1 can use any 1s player 2 gets to reduce their score, and perhaps player 2 now has the higher points tally! Warning though, if player 1 loses again, their points keep going up! Alt mode: you both just increase your scores cumulatively.
You can replay as many times as you want, with the current loser deciding whether you continue, but a minimum of 2 times must be played.
Each time, swap who goes first (starts with d20)
Example:
Player 1: 3d20 - 12, 10, 7
Player 2: 3d19 - 9, 7, 3
Player 1: 3d18 - 1, 5, 6 - Player 1 loses
Player 2 now rolls a 1d17 and they guess it will be 10. It is 10.
Player 1 now has 2 points
The game continues.
