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Dice Gambling Game: Pig
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Published: November 17, 2006
Pig is a simple gambling based dice game that only requires a die or two and a score sheet. Gambling and betting games are a favorite type of game, not only because they're fun to play, have simple rules and are easy to learn, but like Pig, some also provide educational fodder.
Mathematicians—teachers and students alike—and computer engineers find a muse in dice rolling gambling games because they offer an approachable, study of permutations and probability.
Although Pig isn't specifically a gambling game, it is a risk or jeopardy game because your turn total is always at stake on each roll. In some two-dice variations of the game, each roll not only places your turn total at risk but you’re gambling your game total
Like most local or folk games, Pig comes by many names and an equal number of variations.
The basic rules are easy. On each turn, a player continues to roll a die until she either rolls a one or the player holds, scoring the sum of the rolls. During a turn, the roller can do one of two things. Firstly she rolls a one, or she chooses to hold.
If a player rolls a one, her turn is over and she receives no points. If she chooses to execute her second option, to stop rolling, her point total during her turn is added to her total score.
An example of a turn would be rolling the dice once and earning a two. If the player chooses to roll, for example, five more times for 2-4-3-2-5-2, her total points would be 18. If she holds after sixth roll, her turn total is added to her game total.
On another turn he rolls 6 and continues to roll seven more times. In the end her rolls are 6-6-4-5-2-3-2. Playing it risky she decides to roll for an eighth, and the die comes up one. Despite rolling for 28 before her eight roll, since she rolled a one, she loses all the points she earned on her turn.
The winner of the game is determined by who reaches a game total of one-hundred points first.
A common variation is playing with two dice- known as Two-Dice Pig. In this variation, the game is played just as in one die version. The difference is that if a one is rolled the player scores zero and ends their turn. If both dice come up one, then the player automatically scores twenty-five points. Rolling any other double is doubled. For example rolling double two is worth eight, double three is worth twelve, double five, is worth twenty points, etc.
Common variations include two dice variations where throwing a six ends the turn with a zero score, and a double six sets the total for the game back to zero.
Dice Games. 2006. Erik Arneson/ About, Inc. 16 Nov 2006. www.about.com
Pig(Dice). 2006. Wikipedia. 16 Nov 2006. www.wikipedia.org
The Game ofPig. Todd Neller/ Gettysburg College Department of Computer Science. 16 Nov 2006. cs.gettysburg.edu
Although Pig isn't specifically a gambling game, it is a risk or jeopardy game because your turn total is always at stake on each roll. In some two-dice variations of the game, each roll not only places your turn total at risk but you’re gambling your game total
Like most local or folk games, Pig comes by many names and an equal number of variations.
The basic rules are easy. On each turn, a player continues to roll a die until she either rolls a one or the player holds, scoring the sum of the rolls. During a turn, the roller can do one of two things. Firstly she rolls a one, or she chooses to hold.
If a player rolls a one, her turn is over and she receives no points. If she chooses to execute her second option, to stop rolling, her point total during her turn is added to her total score.
An example of a turn would be rolling the dice once and earning a two. If the player chooses to roll, for example, five more times for 2-4-3-2-5-2, her total points would be 18. If she holds after sixth roll, her turn total is added to her game total.
On another turn he rolls 6 and continues to roll seven more times. In the end her rolls are 6-6-4-5-2-3-2. Playing it risky she decides to roll for an eighth, and the die comes up one. Despite rolling for 28 before her eight roll, since she rolled a one, she loses all the points she earned on her turn.
The winner of the game is determined by who reaches a game total of one-hundred points first.
A common variation is playing with two dice- known as Two-Dice Pig. In this variation, the game is played just as in one die version. The difference is that if a one is rolled the player scores zero and ends their turn. If both dice come up one, then the player automatically scores twenty-five points. Rolling any other double is doubled. For example rolling double two is worth eight, double three is worth twelve, double five, is worth twenty points, etc.
Common variations include two dice variations where throwing a six ends the turn with a zero score, and a double six sets the total for the game back to zero.
Dice Games. 2006. Erik Arneson/ About, Inc. 16 Nov 2006. www.about.com
Pig(Dice). 2006. Wikipedia. 16 Nov 2006. www.wikipedia.org
The Game ofPig. Todd Neller/ Gettysburg College Department of Computer Science. 16 Nov 2006. cs.gettysburg.edu
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