Drop Dead

What Drop Dead is

Drop Dead is an old family dice game with a nicely grim name. You start with five dice. Throw them all: if no die shows a 2 or a 5, add up the faces and keep that score. If any die shows a 2 or a 5, those dice drop out for good, and that throw scores nothing.

Keep throwing whatever dice are left until the last one has dropped. A run of clean throws with five dice builds a fat total quickly; once you are down to one or two dice, every throw is a coin-flip for survival.

There are no decisions in Drop Dead; the dice do everything, which makes it a good layer to watch. The final total is matched to the paytable. About two rounds in five finish under ten points and return nothing.

Playing a round

1. Pick a stake of 5, 15, 25, 75 or 150 px.
2. Press Throw five dice. Throws repeat on their own until every die has dropped out.
3. Clean throws add their total; throws with a 2 or a 5 lose those dice and score nothing.
4. The final total is matched to the paytable.

Paytable

What each result returns. Multiply by your stake, or by the line or column stake where the table says so. The table is printed from the file the game reads.

Fair play

Every shape, picture, card, die and token is drawn by your browser's cryptographic random source at the moment you press the button. Nothing adapts to you, to your pixels or to how long you have played, and no round remembers another. The paytable on this page is printed from the same data file the game reads. Pixels carry no cash value, cannot be bought, and there is nothing on the site to spend them on.

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