It's all About Taste ~P.3 Dice Games.~

Dice Games

Some people just love Dice
D6, D12. D20, D100, D16, D13 (i'd like a few of these)
Dragon dice, destiny dice, wooden dice, volcanic rock dice, metal dice, combat dice, defense dice, scatter dice.

QUARRIORS!

OK that last one was a game not a kind of dice but this is about dice games so it fits.

Collecting dice just because would be quite the enjoyable task i think.  But I prefer my dice to have the context of a game attached to them.

Of course whats a dice game?  Some are obvious, Quarriors, Dice garden, Castle Dice, Rory's story Cubes, D&D.
It was brought to my attention though that there are games that seem to fit into other categories also fall into the dice game category, for example Descent, Arkham Horror, Battlestar Galactica.
With that in mind it makes it really hard to comment on all dice games, because i just haven't played them all, heck i haven't played all the 'all' dice games that i mentioned.  I want to but haven't yet.

But i'm not here to review all these games i'm just putting my thoughts on these kinds of games out there into the webisphere.
I like them, they're fun.  rolling dice adds an element of chance that is a lot of fun.  And like my first game of Quarriors last night it could just be that my luck sux, or like my second it could be a lot better.  There is a lack of strategy in the rolling of the dice but in some games like Elder Sign, and king of Tokyo there is some strategy in what you do with what you rolled and how effective it is at helping you in your game.

What can kids get from this?
Well for one they usually love rolling dice, that's just fun.
If the game is language independent then kids can 'get' the game easier as with 'Zombie Dice'
They can begin to develop and concept of chance
and then there's applying the concept of making what you get work for you, instead of being sad about what you didn't get.

Dice games can be expensive due to the cost of the components, particularly if the dice are custom made but in the end i think there's a lot of replay-ability in many of them and enjoyment is usually high.
It does of course depend on the game not all dice games would be worth the cost, but i think thoe that we have have been worth it.
I'm going to focus on Quarriors for our next Age Down Adaptation to see if i can bring this game to my girls sooner rather than later.   So stay tuned.