New Game: LOW BLOW - A dice game for 3 to 4 players

The objective is to have the lowest score after three rounds.

Best for 3 to 4 players.

The game is played in 3 rounds.

For a 3 player game the board is a 5x3 grid.

For a 4 player game the board is a 5x4 grid.

You will also need…
15 - d6 dice for 3 players in three colors and 30 counters.
20 - d6 dice for 4 players in four colors and 40 counters.

A pot to keep your communal counters in. Keep them visible to all players.

Pencil and paper for keeping score.

A 4 player game

Place the board so that all the players can reach it. The board starts out empty.

Each player owns a row. They keep the same colored Row as their home row for all 3 rounds.

Players get 5 dice (all 5 the same color, matching their 'Home' row) and 10 counters apiece at the start of the game.

The youngest player rolls first.

You get a maximum of three rolls per turn.

You begin your turn by rolling all 5 dice, you may have more or less dice, of other player's colors mixed with your own, to roll as the game progresses. Then select any of the dice you've just rolled placing them aside. You can keep all the dice and proceed to play a die or keep none of them and re-roll them all.

During your second roll you may set aside more dice and roll the remaining dice one last time. Once you set a die aside, it may not be re-rolled that turn.

Now you need to decide what to do with one die you've set aside. One die MUST be placed on your turn if you have any.

So on your turn you place your selected die using these conditions;

One - You play it to any empty space on the board. ALL the remaining dice you give to the player on your left and you then put ALL of your counters into the pot.

Two - You play it to any empty space on the board, the Ones (from all dice you possess, whether set aside in roll 1 or 2, or part of the last roll not set aside) you give to the player on your left and the rest you keep and you also put two counters into the pot.

Three - You play it to any empty space on the board, the Ones you give to the player on your left and the rest you keep and all the players put one counter into the pot.


Four - You play it to any empty space on the board, the Ones you give to the player on your left and the rest you keep and you take one counter from the pot, provided there are some to take.

Five - You play it to any empty space on the board, the Ones you give to the player on your left and the rest you keep and you take two counters from the pot, provided there are some to take.


Six - You play it to any empty space on the board, the player whose row you played on (even your own) gets to take all the counters in the pot, provided there are some to take and ALL your remaining dice you give to the player on your left.

Play then continues clockwise.

You are not out of the game if you are out of dice or counters. Dice may be passed to you, or conditions may have you move counters.

The round ends when the board is full.

You then score the round and then remove all the dice from the board and return them to the players, no change is made to the Counter Pot. The youngest player once again starts the next round. Game is over after the 3rd round's counters are scored as explained below.

Scoring

Add up the dice in each home row individually ignoring dice color.

Then you subtract 1 point for each die within your home row in your color, write down your scores. Do not use the counters until the end of round 3.

One counter is worth -1 point the second counter is worth -2 points the third counter is worth -3 points etc.

At the end of the third round total your rows as above and add up your scores for each of the three rounds then subtract the number of counters you have for a final score. Ignore any counters left in the pot. The player with the lowest score after 3 rounds is the winner.



PDF of PnP Board and player aids