Gangster Dice: the 1920s dice game
- Released: 2015
- Theme: 1920s Prohibition gangsters
- Kickstarter: About 120 backers
Gangster Dice is a 2015 dice game set in 1920s Prohibition. Each player's dice are the evidence against them, and the first to get rid of all their dice proves their innocence and wins. Players fight over four tokens that let them gain, lose or change dice. It was funded on Kickstarter by about 120 backers and is out of print.
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Gangster Dice was the first game from Spider-Goat Games. The setting is the 1920s, when Prohibition turned bootlegging into big business. Your crew has pulled off one job too many, the police are closing in, and not everyone is going to walk away clean.
How it plays
- Each player starts with a set of dice that stands for the evidence against them.
- Four tokens sit in the middle of the table. Each one lets its holder gain dice, lose dice, or otherwise change the dice in play.
- Players compete for control of the tokens. The first player to get rid of every die is cleared and wins.
The catch is pacing. Dump your evidence too quickly and the others gang up on you, or you lose the tokens you need to shed your last few dice and get stuck with them.
History
The game was funded on Kickstarter in summer 2015 by about 120 backers. The publisher assembled every copy by hand, debuted the finished game at RinCon in Tucson in late September 2015, and had all backer copies in the mail by mid-October. A German-language video review followed a week later. The full timeline is on the history page.
An expansion followed. Owners found the base game and expansion barely fit in the original box, which led to the repacking tip in the questions below.
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Questions people ask
How do you win Gangster Dice?
Get rid of all your dice. Each die is a piece of evidence against your gangster, and the first player with none left is found innocent.
How do I fit the Gangster Dice expansion in the base box?
It only just fits. A BoardGameGeek user posted a repacking layout; search the Gangster Dice forums on BoardGameGeek for it.
Where was Gangster Dice made?
The publisher assembled the games by hand in Tucson in a single day in September 2015 and handed out local copies at RinCon, the city's gaming convention.