My Selfie (Dice Game)

We wanted to check out a few more games this weekend, but I was down for most of Sunday with a nasty headache behind my eyeballs.  Probably the usual eye strain, but how do you rest your eyes when there are so many things to do?  So many things that need to be done ...

I did recover enough after dinner to try a few games of My Selfie with Anne.  Like usual, I read the rules once or twice in the days before playing, and look for online video playthroughs if it looks at all complex.  This one looked like a simple Yahtzee-style dice-matching game, and I was not wrong.

Note: I saw at least one other completely different version of this game where you actually place tiles onto shelves.  The version we got is the dice version.  It had the quickest setup time we've seen in ages.  The box has just these things: 6 dice, 4 score cards, 4 dry-erase pens, and a tiny rulebook.


Each turn, you roll the 6 dice and try to match up to the sets you can score.  You can only use one wild symbol in a match, and the wild symbol on its own can't be used at all.  You might get 4 cats and 2 books.  So circle the spaces on your score card for the 4 cats and 2 books.  That's about it.

As the card fills up, your options become limited.  If one player completes a row, the other player has to cross out any unmarked items on that same row on that card.  So that item is effectively done for the game.  If you end up unable to score any combo at all, you have to choose a row and cross out all remaining unmarked squares.

The game ends when any player has two completely marked rows on their card.  Technically, you would keep playing until it comes back round to the first player.  You can mark the first player using the checkbox at top left of the score card, which was handy, but with two players we didn't really care.

It plays in about 7-10 minutes.  Quick & easy.  You choose which combos to score, but the dice might betray you in the end.  The final scoring is simple: for any row or column with more than 2 marked squares, add up the point values of those square and put the score in the number at the bottom or right.  Out total scores were in the 50-70 range.

It's not clear who's winning until the actual totals are done.  I suppose we could be keeping a mental tally the whole time and make more complex decisions to outscore each other.  But we were just trying to make the best combos we could make in the moment.

The butt end of the pens were perfect for erasing the marks.

A fun little game.