CONTENTS 6 dice cups 24 dice 120 game pieces or snake parts / nuggets in red, blue, yellow, green, black and white colours Score notepad Game rules Game board Rattlesnakes NUMBER OF PLAYERS All games can be played from 2 players up to 6 players at a time. 1. GOAL The goal of the game is to be the first one to play all dice away from your cup. 2. GAME TERMS Value: the value of the numbers on a die from low to high is 2-3-4-5-6-1. Joker: number 1 on the die is the joker and can be considered to be any number from 1 to 6. A thrown number 1 can also be played as a 1, in which case it is valued higher than a 6. This applies to all game modes of THINKABOXIN. Bid: a gamble or bluff on the total amount of dice of a certain value that are underneath all players dice cups (including one s own cup). Raise: raising a bid means that EITHER the amount of dice is raised (e.g. raising four twos to five twos, etc.) OR that the value of the aforementioned amount of dice is raised (raising three fives to three sixes or three ones) OR that both are raised (raising five fours to seven sixes, etc.). Lift: the player who calls a bid into question, lifts his own dice cup. Afterwards, all players (including the player whose bid had been called into question) lift their cups in order to check who is right through counting the amount of dice with the value named in the last bid. Won dice: after each round all players – except the player who was not right – can get one die out of their dice cups and put it away. The amount of dice put away is called won dice. Only the dice that can be put away from one s own cup count as won dice. Round: one played round (ends when the winning players have been able to put away one die). Set: all played and counted rounds. 3. GENERAL GAME RULES THINKABOXIN Before the start of the game, each player always receives a personal dice cup containing 4 dice. All players simultaneously shake their cups with dice, and each player looks underneath his own cup to see what he has thrown himself. Players may not ever see one another s dice (except for when cups are lifted). The youngest player starts the very first round. The rounds after that, the loser of the previous round or set begins bidding. Whoever starts a round always determines the playing direction. The player determines this through making a bid to either the player to the left or right of him. A bid that has been placed cannot be withdrawn or changed. Once a bid has been placed, the turn of whoever placed the bid is over, and the next player s turn is at hand. The next player either raises this bid in the given playing direction or lifts his cup if he takes the current bid into question. Raise: raising a bid means that EITHER the amount of dice is raised (e.g. raising four twos to five twos, etc.) OR that the value of the aforementioned amount of dice is raised (raising three fives to three sixes or three ones) OR that both are raised (raising five fours to seven sixes, etc.). Raising a bid has to be done in the given playing direction. In case of a raise, the previous bid no longer needs to be kept in mind. When someone lifts the cup to indicate that he takes the previous player s bid into question, this action is final and cannot be undone. When the bid has been taken into question and one cup has been lifted, all players should then lift their cups, and the dice with the values named in the last bid will be counted. When more than or precisely the amount of dice named in the bid are present, the bidder is right and the lifter is not right. When fewer than the amount of dice named in the bid are present, the bidder is not right and the lifter is right. Whoever is not right is not allowed to get any die out of his cup, all other players are allowed to get one die out of their cups. The won dice that have been put away from the cups have to be placed in front of the dice cups on the table in a way that is visible for

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