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Article #157: Dice Sports Games That Are Fun; The Baseball Game

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This is the third installment in a world initial first inning roll. Each
of incredibly fun sports games played consecutive inning thereafter that the
with dice. In the first installment I player continues to perform a first odd
taught you how to play the college roll continues the no-hitter up until the
version of Dice Football. Then in the player finally rolls an even number. If
second you learned the Pro Football dice they fail to roll at least one even
game. Now it is Dice Baseball, which is number in nine innings that means you
the first dice game that I ever invented. pitched a no-hitter. Time to call
Just as in my football games you will Cooperstown!
need two dice, notebook paper and a pen So where are the homeruns? I bet you are
or pencil to play dice baseball. glad that I asked. Any time a player
You will recall that in the college rolls a double-dice roll, he has hit a
football game you got your box score set Homerun! That is all that it takes;
up so that you can begin the game and doubles aka, two of a kind. Better yet,
just take turns for four quarters. In the if there are any men on base then they
baseball game you will have to make a box score with the homerun. Yes, with the
score sheet that has nine boxes split in bases loaded a homerun is a grand slam.
half. These two halves represent the home This is an example of how the baseball
team and the visitors. Remember that in game can be played. Let us say the
baseball the home team always bats last visitors roll a 2+3 on his initial first
and should be on the bottom of the two inning roll. The visitors inning is
box halves. considered over and with no hits. The
As in real baseball each team rolls for home team rolls a 4+6 (10) on the first
nine innings. The exception of course is roll. That represents a base hit or one
the home team. If the home team is man on base. The home player then rolls a
winning after the visitor has finished 3+5 (8) thus getting a second man on
his half of the ninth, then there is no base. Then he rolls a 1+4 (5). The inning
need for the home boys to roll the ninth. is over. End result of the first inning
Just like in real baseball the game is is 0 to 0.
over and the dice can hit the showers. The visitor starts his second inning with
Batting is pretty simple. Each team gets a pair of threes (3+3). Boom, he hit a
to start their half of an inning by homerun. He then rolls a 2+5 (7), which
rolling the dice once. If the two die means the inning is over. The visitor has
total an even number then they can roll scored a run in their half of the second
again. That is because even dice totals and leads the game, 1 to 0. The home team
equal one single. An even dice total will starts with a 2+4 (6) single. Then on the
be one of the following combinations; next roll the home player rolls a pair of
1+3=4, 1+5=6, 2+4=6, 2+6=8, 3+5=8, fours (4+4). The home player has hit a
4+6=10. If the next roll yields an even two run homerun since there was a man
number then there has been another hit. already on base. The next roll is a 3+4
Now in baseball terms this means that (7) out and that ends the second inning
there are, two men on base. The rolling with the home team ahead, 2-1.
player now gets a third roll. As you can Now for the rest of the game neither team
see where this is going, another even scores again until the ninth inning when
number means that the bases are loaded. A the visitor strings together six
fourth consecutive even dice result will consecutive even numbers before rolling
bring home the first run and each the inevitable odd number. That means the
consecutive roll will continue to bring visitor scored three runs and now leads
home runners until the roller finally the game, 4-2. Then the home team follows
rolls an odd dice total. with three consecutive rolls of doubles
Any odd dice total represents the end of (homeruns); which means they won the
an inning. Thus, if a player rolls an odd game, 5-4. What a comeback!
number on his first roll, then that If the score ends in a tie after nine
inning is over. The odd dice totals are innings then just keep playing one inning
as follows; 1+2=3, 1+4=5, 1+6=7, 2+3=5, at a time until someone finally wins.
2+5=7, 3+4=7, 3+6=9, 4+5=9, 5+6=11. A That is what baseball calls,
really cool thing to do during this game extra-innings. In the next article I will
is to see if you can get a no-hit game. attempt to teach you about the college
You can do this by simply putting a dot basketball dice games. Till then, keep on
in the innings that a player rolls an odd rolling.
number. You can start this on their






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