Cthulhu Dice is a
dice game
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released in 2010 by
Steve Jackson Games
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History
Founded in 1980, six years after the c ...
. It is recommended for 2-6 players, and the play time can be anywhere from 5–10 minutes. The game includes a 12 sided die, 18 glass marbles, and a set of rules.
Each player rolls the die to compete with other players to be the last sane person left.
Rules
Each player takes three glass marbles to represent sanity, and the rest of the tokens are set aside.
A person will cast the die, rolling it against another player, causing him/her to lose or gain sanity.
Signs
Cthulhu Dice uses many signs on the custom die that represent moves of the players. The signs are:
Yellow Sign,
Tentacle
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,
Elder Sign,
Cthulhu
Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first introduced in his short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published by the American pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'' in 1928. Considered a Great Old One within the pan ...
or an
Eye of Horus
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. The signs used in Cthulhu Dice are famous glyphs from
H. P. Lovecraft's
Cthulhu Mythos
The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent and protégé of Lovecraft, to identify ...
.
See also
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Game design
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References
External links
*http://www.sjgames.com/dice/cthulhudice/
*http://www.sjgames.com/dice/cthulhudice/img/CDRules_English.pdf
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