Celebrity Piggy (Milton Bradley, 1978)

Another thrift store find up in Riverside.  This was in that basket of bundled-up vintage games, and I already knew what it was going to be.  It's just the old kid's game of Greedy Dice or Piggy Dice, but somehow it got sold to Milton Bradley with a guy's name boldly on the package as if he had invented the idea.

The one difference is that in the royalty free game we counted the ones as the bad rolls, here they made custom dice with pig icons where the ones should be.  Here's the game: roll 3 dice as many times as you want on your turn and score all those points, but if you roll a piggy you score zero and your turn is over.  If you roll two piggies, your score for the entire game is negated, you start over at zero points.

First player to 100 wins.  We ran through a game, then Anne said we should just play to 200 instead of starting over, but that's a mixed decision because it means the stakes are higher: those two piggies can now cost you well over 100 points.

There's always some fun tossing dice around, and this is a simple but classic one.  It really didn't need any special packaging.  It's just Dice 101 to seasoned gamers.