Method and apparatus for playing a dice game
OwnerEduardo Factorinventor
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Abstract
The game of Olé is a dice game played between at least two players using a pair of conventional six-sided dice. All possible combinations of the values of upturned faces of the pair of dice are exhaustively ranked. A session of play consists of a number of turns, wherein in each turn, each player rolls the pair of dice. The value of each player's rolled dice is ranked and a losing player is determined to be the player having rolled the worst-ranked combination. The losing player then deducts a point from a collection of points assigned to him at the start of the game. Turns are played until only one player has at least one point remaining, and is declared the winner.
Claims3
A method of playing a game comprising the steps of:
- (a) exhaustively ranking all possible combinations of upturned faces of two dice, each die having six faces with each face being marked with a dedicated value between and including one and six and wherein the exhaustive ranking of the upturned faces of the pair of dice from best to worst are, two and one, six and six, five and five, four and four, three and three, two and two, one and one, six and five, six and four, six and three, six and two, six and one, five and four, five and three, five and two, five and one, four and three, four and two, four and one, three and two, three and one;
- (b) in a turn played between at least two players,
- (i) rolling the dice by each player,
- (ii) comparing the rank of each player's rolled pair of dice to determine a losing player, the losing player having rolled the worst-ranked combination,
- (iii) deducting a point from a number of starting points from the losing player,
- wherein a player having deducted all his points may purchase additional points of pre-determined value from a central bank, the additional points of a number not exceeding the number of points possessed by another player having the lowest number of points greater than zero at the time the purchase is made;
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- (c) playing a plurality of turns until only one player has at least one point remaining, and is thereby declared the winner of the game.
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