Tumblin' Dice

By: Kim and Devin

June 15, 2024

Tumblin’ Dice is a dexterity dice game for 1-6 players! In Tumblin’ Dice, players will take turns flicking, sliding, or bumping their dice off of a launch platform, with the goal of landing on lower levels of the play area for higher score multipliers. However, other players may use their own dice to bump yours off, so watch out!

Overview

The game plays over four rounds (or first to a total number of points). Every round, players will take turns launching one of their four dice, until everyone has used all of their dice. Then, points are tallied, the dice are cleared from the play area, and a new round starts.

Points are earned for dice still remaining on the board at the end of a round. The points earned by each die is equal to the face-up value of the die multiplied by the score bonus on each level of the board, with lower levels giving higher multipliers.

The only rules you need to follow when sending your dice a-tumblin’ are:

The die needs to make contact with the launch platform (the black section with the Eagle-Gryphon logo at the top), and
You must not make contact with the die once it leaves the launch platform.

Any dice that fall off the board (either because they were launched poorly or because they were bumped by another player) are out of play until the start of the next round! Your goal on your turn is to maximize your points while knocking other opponents’ dice out of play!

Thoughts

🟣Devin🟣

Tumblin’ Dice is designed by Randy Nash and published by Eagle-Gryphon Games (and Ferti games)! The game was originally released in 2004, but different versions have been produced from then all the way up to 2022 with the release of the Eagle-Gryphon Games version, which is the version we own.

The game board itself is made of high-quality wood with an attractive paint job that makes it a joy to play, and overall it doesn’t take up much more space on the table than any other board game, and it packs away neatly into a slim box for storage. However, we held off on picking it up for a long time due to the relatively high price. We’ve heard of folks making their own Tumblin’ Dice boards at home and just buying some colored dice to play with.

Personally, I find the game to be a ton of fun. It’s quick, exciting, and you’re always interested in what’s going on. You and your friends will alternately cheer and groan as perfectly placed dice are knocked completely off the board, or as a poorly positioned die is bumped further down the board and rolled to a higher value! Even with just the two of us playing at home, we had a lot of fun! It’s so fast that it’s easy to say, “Okay, just one more time!” until you’ve been playing for well over an hour! Tumblin’ Dice feels like a classic party game that adults and kids alike can have fun playing. It’s going to be a staple in our household for the foreseeable future as something we can bring to parties or bars, or even just play at home when we want to mix things up with a more active game.

🔴Kim🔴

We’ve been having such a good time with Tumblin’ Dice! Like Devin mentioned, the price put us off buying it for a while, but when we found it half off at a local game store we immediately purchased it. So far we’ve played it at 2, 3, and 6 player counts and it works great at all of them. The higher the player count, the more chaos that will happen with more dice on the board and players possibly accidentally (or purposely!) knocking off other players’ dice.

We played it with both of our families and everyone had a blast! This is the perfect game to play with your family and friends when you just want to have fun and play something very different. Everyone we played with even wanted a copy of their own for future get-togethers.

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