Right---I changed the ending condition to be first to 100. We lost the rule book on a family road trip. I'm interested in both versions. Maybe there's an argument that the komi is smaller for one version rather than the other in the two person game? On 8/26/07, Michael Kleber <michael.kleber@gmail.com> wrote:
Nice question! Did the folks who solved Pig, the fundamental game in this family, say what the komi was?
Poking around for rules on-line, it looks like the win condition is slightly more complicated: once one player reaches 100, each other player gets one final chance, and the winner is whoever has the highest score. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/1683302
--Michael Kleber
On 8/25/07, Thane Plambeck <tplambeck@gmail.com> wrote:
Target is selling a game called Toss Up. It comes with 10 identical 6-sided dice and a rulebook. Each die has 3 green faces, 2 yellow faces, and 1 red face.
http://www.areyougame.com/Interact/item.asp?itemno=PA7367
On a player's turn, he starts by rolling all 10 dice. Dice that come up as green are added to the player's score, one point per die, and are put aside. The player then has the option to roll again with the remaining dice. If at least one is green, all the just-rolled greens are then put aside, he gets that many more points, and he has the option to roll again, etc.
If ever the player fails to roll a green and also has at least one red, he is bankrupted. His total accumulated score becomes zero and all the dice are passed to the next player. If alternatively he manages to score ten points, he gets to start over with all ten again. Finally, a player can also decide to stop at any time, passing the dice on to the next player at any point.
Whoever is the first to score 100 points wins.
In a two person game, it's presumably got to be advantageous to be the first to roll. But suppose the second player is given a "fair" initial positive score X (ie, a komi) to compensate for that.
What is X?
-- Thane Plambeck tplambeck@gmail.com http://www.plambeck.org/ehome.htm
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