Help Your Neighbour Dice Game Rules
Help Your Neighbour is a dice game for 2-6 players. A game typically takes 10-20 minutes, and the recommended age is 6+.
Rules for Help Your Neighbour: Everyone owns a number, and every time your number shows up on the dice it costs you a chip.
Setup
Help Your Neighbour is played with three dice and chips, and suits two to six players. Each player starts with ten chips. With six players, everyone gets one number from 1 to 6. With fewer, the numbers are shared out as evenly as possible: three players take two numbers each, two players three numbers each. With four or five players, one or two numbers are left without an owner and simply do nothing in the game.
How to play
Players roll the three dice in turn. For every die showing your number, you must put one chip in the pot in the middle. If your neighbour rolls 4-4-2 and you own the four, it costs you two chips.
So it is the other players' rolls that hurt you: on your own turn you can at worst hit yourself. Hence the name, best read with a wink. Your neighbours are only too happy to help you empty your stack.
Winning
Play continues until only one player has chips left. That player wins and takes the pot. A round rarely lasts more than fifteen minutes, so play several and let whoever wins the most rounds take the evening.
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