Another game of eXcape: Duke Gnome wins!

[Zag]

Stolen from dethwing and modified slightly

eXcape is a "Press your luck" dice game, for 3+ players. Players attempt to be the first person to move 30 spaces forward and eXcape.
The game uses two die, which are numbered thusly:

1, 2, 3, 4, 7, X
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, X

The game consists simply of a track numbered 0 to 30 which the players move on, and a "bidding table" numbered 1 to (N+1), where N is the number of players.

On your turn, you roll the dice by using a dice command with only an x in it, as below. (This special value was built into the dice command for our first game.)

[dice]x[/dice]

You create the largest 2 digit number you can from them. i.e. a roll of 3-6 is numbered 63, and a roll of 7-1 is 71.
An X on the first roll of your turn only counts as a 0. So 7-X is 70, and X-X is 0.
You may choose either:
(1). Keep this roll, and bid it on any of the empty spaces on the bidding table.
(2). Roll again, to try for a higher number.
You may re-roll as many times as you like, untill you keep, or untill you roll an X. If you roll an X, you go back 1 space [no penalty if you're still on 0], AND you lose your turn. On a roll of an X-X you go back 2 spaces.

Play then passes to the next person. If your bid is still on the bidding table by the time the game comes back to you, you move forward the number of spaces that you bid, and you take your turn again, after removing your dice from the bidding table.

Bidding Table
You may bid any number 0-5 provided:
(1). A player before you has not already bid this number.
(2). In order to bid higher than a previous bid, your die must be strictly greater than theirs.

Ex.
Suppose play passes to you and the bidding table looks like this:

5: Empty
4: 54
3: Empty
2: 32
1: Empty

You decide to keep your roll of 43, and not press your luck. You may not bid 4, or 2, as these are taken. You may not bid 5, as your roll is NOT greater than that of the 4-bid. You may thus bid 1, or 3.

If after any bid, an illegal position is reached, where a higher number has a lower bid, all illegal dice are discarded from the table. When that players turn comes around, they won't get to move.

Back to the example, bidding 0 in this case is silly. However, there is a choice involved between 1 and 3. With a bid of 1, you would knock out the 32 bid, and that player wouldn't move. A bid of 3 is worth more, but you won't knock any player out.

Hence, to bid 5, you must be supremely confident that no one following you will equal your roll, as any placement would knock you out.

Doubles
If at any time you roll 1-1, 2-2, or 3-3, you move forward a bonus number of squares, or 1, 2 or 3, depending on the double you rolled.

Interested? Sign up below. Please do so by using the special dice command for this game.

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x Fixed eXcape roll: 31 (orig: 3, 1)

Last edited by Zag on Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:24 pm; edited 31 times in total

[dethwing]

I'll give it another shot!

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 2X (orig: 6, 2)

[lexprod]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 33 (orig: 3, 3)

[lexprod]

Doubles! Do I start the game with 3 points?

[MatthewV]

I'll play again, but I would really like to see doubles (1,2, or 3's) score only 1 point.

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 31 (orig: 1, 3)

[Zag]

I had decided to go with the other adjustment that was suggested, but I don't feel strongly about it. We can vote on it if you like.

[sAbLLimINal]

so, this is using the original format?

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 32 (orig: 2, 3)

[Zag]

No. I changed the bidding table to go from 1 to N+1, rather than 0 to 5, and made the target score 30. This will lessen the effect of the doubles.

[Zag]

That's 5 players. (It is the same 5? I think so.) I'll leave sign-ups open for another couple of days and then we can start.

[dethwing]

Yep, same 5 so far.

[Duke Gnome]

I'll have a go.

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 72 (orig: 5, 2)

[Zag]

I guess we'll go with these 6. Here's the turn order, based on the rolls people did to sign up. (I flipped a coin between you and me, MV, and I won.)

Score and turn order:
0 -- Duke Gnome <----
0 -- lexprod
0 -- sAbLLimINal
0 -- Zag
0 -- MatthewV
0 -- dethwing

Bidding table:
7:
6:
5:
4:
3:
2:
1:

Duke Gnome, you're up!

[MatthewV]

But dethwing is lower than both of us!

[Duke Gnome]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 42 (orig: 4, 2)

[Duke Gnome]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 54 (orig: 4, 4)

[Duke Gnome]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 3X (orig: 3, 6)

[Zag]

[Duke Gnome]

I figured with no risk of losing any points, I could afford to aim a little high.

[lexprod]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 1X (orig: 1, 6)

[lexprod]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 63 (orig: 3, 5)

[lexprod]

Score and turn order:
0 -- Duke Gnome
0 -- lexprod
0 -- sAbLLimINal <----
0 -- Zag
0 -- MatthewV
0 -- dethwing

Bidding table:
7:
6:
5:
4: lexprod 63
3:
2:
1:

[sAbLLimINal]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 32 (orig: 2, 3)

[sAbLLimINal]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 73 (orig: 5, 3)

[sAbLLimINal]

Score and turn order:
0 -- Duke Gnome
0 -- lexprod
0 -- sAbLLimINal
0 -- Zag <----
0 -- MatthewV
0 -- dethwing

Bidding table:
7: sAbLLimINal 73
6:
5:
4: lexprod 63
3:
2:
1:

[Zag]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 71 (orig: 5, 1)

[Zag]

Score and turn order:
0 -- Duke Gnome
0 -- lexprod
0 -- sAbLLimINal
0 -- Zag
0 -- MatthewV <----
0 -- dethwing

Bidding table:
7: sAbLLimINal 73
6:
5: Zag 71
4: lexprod 63
3:
2:
1:

[MatthewV]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 21 (orig: 2, 1)

[MatthewV]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 2X (orig: 6, 2)

[dethwing]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 4X (orig: 4, 6)

[dethwing]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 21 (orig: 1, 2)

[dethwing]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 3X (orig: 3, 6)

[dethwing]

Back to Gnome...

[Duke Gnome]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 2X (orig: 6, 2)

[Duke Gnome]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 1X (orig: 1, 6)

[Duke Gnome]

0 -- Duke Gnome
4 -- lexprod <----
0 -- sAbLLimINal
0 -- Zag
0 -- MatthewV
0 -- dethwing

Bidding table:
7: sAbLLimINal 73
6:
5: Zag 71
4: lexprod 63 (Scoring)
3:
2:
1

[lexprod]

I burst ahead into the lead

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 2X (orig: 6, 2)

[lexprod]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 72 (orig: 5, 2)

[lexprod]

0 -- Duke Gnome
4 -- lexprod
0 -- sAbLLimINal <----
0 -- Zag
0 -- MatthewV
0 -- dethwing

Bidding table:
7: sAbLLimINal 73
6: lexprod 72
5: Zag 71
4:
3:
2:
1

:paints target on back:

[sAbLLimINal]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 41 (orig: 4, 1)

[sAbLLimINal]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: x eXcape roll: 21 (orig: 2, 1)