Ozymandias is a dice game of pyramidal deconstruction for two players using a Das Spiel set. Ozymandias has much in common with Rummy-style games, but attempts to minimize luck by using a dice pyramid as a source of matching. The game consists of alternating turns consisting of two *takes*, except for the starting player who performs only a single take. A *take* is the act of removing some number of dice from the edges of the pyramid and scoring them according to their original orientation in the structure. A player may take a group of dice from the pyramid according to certain scoring sets: runs, 3 of a kind, 4 of a kind, additive (numbers add to a sum), multiplicative (numbers multiply to a product), and others. There are also takes that incur penalties, but that might be useful for setting up larger scoring sets. The players will continue to take dice from the pyramid until either they both take negative scores on successive turns or all of the dice are removed from the pyramid. The player with the highest score at the end is the winner.

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