Drop Dead (dice game)

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 ⚁ or ⚄, 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 ⚁ or ⚄, they score no points, and the dice that includes a ⚁ or ⚄ is excluded from any future throws that they make. A player's turn does not stop until their last remaining die shows a ⚁ or ⚄. 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. Robert Frederick Foster (1922). Foster's complete Hoyle. Frederick A. Stokes company. p. 619.
2. Family Fun & Games. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. 1992. p. 88. ISBN   9780806987767.
3. Henk Tijms (June 14, 2012). Understanding Probability. Cambridge University Press. p. 68. ISBN   978-1-107-65856-1.