Dicewar Flash Game

Posted by Alex in Flash Games on March 20, 2008 at 8:08 pm


Dicewars is a pretty old game, but I’ve never learned to play it and the website doesn’t have any instruction.

On the umpteenth time it’s suggested to Neatorama, I’ve finally played it for the first time … and I’m hooked!

Here’s how you should start playing it: select the 2 Players mode (you’ll be purple). When it’s your turn, click on a purple area, and then click a neighboring green area that has fewer dice. The computer will "roll" the dice for you and if yours come up higher, then the area attacked will turn purple. You can end your turn at any time, but it makes sense to attack until you can’t win anymore.

If this is too easy, then you can move to the 3, 4, 5 players and so on mode.

Link [Flash] – Thanks (and darn you for introducing such an addictive game) Jerse!


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13 comments to "Dicewar Flash Game"

  1. priscilla
    March 20th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    That's the game of Risk! It looks different but it's definitly the same. Risk is a board game with the 7 continents and each player is a different color and chooses different countries to conquer. Then you have to try and conquer the other neighboring countries by rolling dice with the higher numbers winning. Then you take over the world. Pretty cool.

  2. Jerse
    March 20th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

    One tip is to keep ending your turn after you've gotten a few spaces - maximize all of your dice on each square - and then start attacking the other guys

    That's what I usually do - but idk 80% of the time you have to fight off the other guys for awhile before your dice max out...

  3. sparge
    March 20th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    It's similar to Risk, but there are some important distinctions that make it different -- the main one being that you don't choose where your reinforcements go.

    There's a multiplayer version that was inspired by Dice Wars: KDice

  4. bob the builder
    March 20th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    The number of reenforcements is based on the number of contiguous spaces you have

  5. Maria Ozawa
    March 21st, 2008 at 12:53 am

    Ok, I', gonna try that game later when i get home ^_^

  6. Tom
    March 21st, 2008 at 1:53 am

    Seems to me like the game sways greatly in the favor of whoever goes first. I have won every time I went first, and lost every time I didn't.

    Maybe multiplayer won't be as lame.

  7. sparge
    March 21st, 2008 at 6:06 am

    Tom - the more opponents you play in a game, the less that will be the case. I usually play 8, although if you do go that high you'll need to accept the occasional misfortune of being killed before you even get a chance to move.

  8. bazik
    March 21st, 2008 at 8:23 am

    you should play kdice is more fun :)

  9. Eni
    March 21st, 2008 at 10:08 am

    Interesting... I've always found I do better when there are more opponents. I got slaughtered on 2-player mode, then I switched to 7-player and I won.

  10. MoonCake
    March 21st, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    that's funny, eni, that was the opposite for me. awesome game though; exactly like risk.

  11. Christophe
    March 21st, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    A, Risk! Nice game, good buildup until you have the Mother of All Battles where one of the player gets an unbeatable advantage. Pretty fun though.

  12. Tom
    March 21st, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    Sparge,

    Yeah, I started playing with 5, and had a great game, lasted almost two hours.

    I won. :)

  13. Alex
    March 21st, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    I've never played Risk, so I didn't realize the similarities. ;)

    The trick, at least for me, is to make sure that you have a lot of dice in the areas that border your enemies. Once you do this, then attack the areas that have a lot of dice, but less than yours (don't bother attacking the onesies and twosies, those can't possibly beat your dice-maxed areas).

    Once you have a lot of dice-maxed areas, then attack with abandon, but only do so knowing that the reinforcements will always "refill" the areas to maximum levels. Works for all player modes.


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