Doodle Dice

We found a copy of Doodle Dice at a thrift shop in Black Canyon City.  It looked like it would be a Yahtzee style game but with shapes instead of numbers,  and that was exactly right.

There was a bit of a twist though.  The box we got only had five dice when there should be six.  This was not much of a problem though.  Just take out the purple cards, the only patterns that use all six dice.  The game played just fine with five.

Some of the patterns on the cards are really cute.  The game is just a matter of rolling and rerolling dice and trying to match one of the face up cards.  First player to score one of each color of card wins.

The rules had some gaps, from the feel of it.  They said you can't have more than one card of the same color in your "hand", but many hands go by before the color you need comes up and I can't see not scoring some other  cards until then.  Maybe the game should end when a player gets all 5 (supposed to be 6) colors and then the player with the most cards wins.  You could score the cards based on total number of dice it took to make the pattern.

It's easy to forget to PLAY a game, sometimes we're tired and just go through the motions to see what's next.  But here you should make the actual patterns on the cards.   Don't just push some dice off to the side.  It's fun to put the designs together, and easy to end up with the wrong dice.

This was some mindless fun, even with just 5 of the 6 dice.  Thumbs up.