Overview: Stacks
Stack
This game is a simple game of strategic defense & offence, coupled with a little luck.
Best played between 4, Stack gives each player 14 6-sided dice, with 4 colours (1 colour each). The players roll the 56 dice into the playing area, then take turns stacking dice on top of other players'.
Only dice of the same number may be stacked; in addition, no stack may be more than 4 dice high (though it can contain any permutation of colours), and players may not stack on their own dice. Once any one player cannot move at the beginning of his turn, the round is over.
The scoring system lends this game depth -- since scores are face-value for 2-6, but not for a 1 (1 being 10 points), players usually try to get lots of points with 1, 4, 5 & 6. With 2 & 3, they usually roll the die to obtain a new (and hopefully higher) face-value.
Also, since no stack may be more than 4 dice high, strategy emerges in that players are reluctant to be the 3rd die on the stack -- in case another player has the same face-value die & claims the stack for the round. Only when there was no immediate danger of losing the stack would the player set the 3rd die. Then, other players had the option of continuing with their own scoring agenda, or they would roll one of their lower-value dice to attempt to claim the stack.
Another strategy that emerged was that of stacking on top of certain other players' dice, in order to stop them scoring or to end the round quicker (make them run out of dice).
Stack is a fun game, and its strategy is helped by a requirement for luck at times. It is very cut-throat, and all the better for it.
This game is a simple game of strategic defense & offence, coupled with a little luck.
Best played between 4, Stack gives each player 14 6-sided dice, with 4 colours (1 colour each). The players roll the 56 dice into the playing area, then take turns stacking dice on top of other players'.
Only dice of the same number may be stacked; in addition, no stack may be more than 4 dice high (though it can contain any permutation of colours), and players may not stack on their own dice. Once any one player cannot move at the beginning of his turn, the round is over.
The scoring system lends this game depth -- since scores are face-value for 2-6, but not for a 1 (1 being 10 points), players usually try to get lots of points with 1, 4, 5 & 6. With 2 & 3, they usually roll the die to obtain a new (and hopefully higher) face-value.
Also, since no stack may be more than 4 dice high, strategy emerges in that players are reluctant to be the 3rd die on the stack -- in case another player has the same face-value die & claims the stack for the round. Only when there was no immediate danger of losing the stack would the player set the 3rd die. Then, other players had the option of continuing with their own scoring agenda, or they would roll one of their lower-value dice to attempt to claim the stack.
Another strategy that emerged was that of stacking on top of certain other players' dice, in order to stop them scoring or to end the round quicker (make them run out of dice).
Stack is a fun game, and its strategy is helped by a requirement for luck at times. It is very cut-throat, and all the better for it.
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