Rolling Bones

By SimplyFun
Price $32.00
Age 7 +

Rolling Bones is an ingenious game that requires making strategic decisions as you go. The goal is to assemble a human skeleton by placing special bone dice into their proper places on the board. On your first roll, all 18 dice are used. After placing as many as possible, you may re-roll the remaining dice. But each subsequent roll requires a given number of unplaced dice to be taken out of circulation, reducing your scoring potential and eventually causing you to run out of dice. All dice placed on the board must be connected - no gaps. To avoid a gap, a bone can be placed incorrectly, but doing so costs you points. Also, in order for bones you've placed to be worth points, you must first roll and place a Checkmark, an act which ends your turn. Thus, a player is in a frequent quandary - to place the Checkmark now and take the current score, or go for more points and risk not getting a Checkmark, resulting in a zero. There's nothing dry about this game. It's tremendous fun, so much so that it's highly entertaining even when playing solo. The decisions players must make - whether the cost of placing a bone incorrectly is worth the gain, which bones to take out of circulation when re-rolling, whether to place a Checkmark and accept the current score or re-roll and risk no score at all - are part of what makes it truly exceptional. Both its entertainment and educational value are off the charts, and its replay value is endless. For 2 - 4 players.