Drop Dead (dice game)

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Drop Dead is played with five dice

Drop Dead is a

dice game in which the players try to gain the highest total score. The game was created in New York.[1]

Five dice and paper to record players' scores are all that is needed. A player rolls the five dice and if the throw does not include a 2 or 5, they receive the score of the total numbers added together. That player is also able to roll the dice again. When a player rolls the dice and any of them contain a 2 or 5, they score no points, and the dice that includes a 2 or 5 is excluded from any future throws that they make. A player's turn does not stop until their last remaining die shows a 2 or 5. At that point, the player "drops dead" and it becomes the next player's turn.[2] The highest total score wins.[1]

The textbook Understanding Probability uses the dice game in a math question about simulation.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Robert Frederick Foster (1922). Foster's complete Hoyle. Frederick A. Stokes company. p. 619.
  2. ISBN 9780806987767
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  3. ISBN 978-1-107-65856-1
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