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AZBOARDER13 said:
I love this! I am confused on the sentence about get confused about scratching the 9 horse but discarding 6s? Regardless, will be checking Amazon shortly for this game, just like I did for the shut the box game suggested to get the gambol on. In your experience, what's the max/ min number of players to make this work well?
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Typo. I edited my post to explain you discard nines if nine is the scratch.

I tested the game out with my kids and we played three handed. It worked and was fun but I think I’d modify the rules if short handed. Maybe only play with red cards or something. Having 14 or 15 cards per person is a lot. 5-9 is better I think.

Last night we played with anywhere from 5-9 players and they were all fun.
 
wonderpuddle said:
Typo. I edited my post to explain you discard nines if nine is the scratch.

I tested the game out with my kids and we played three handed. It worked and was fun but I think I’d modify the rules if short handed. Maybe only play with red cards or something. Having 14 or 15 cards per person is a lot. 5-9 is better I think.

Last night we played with anywhere from 5-9 players and they were all fun.
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We play this game all the time as a family. One of our favorite games. We lower the stakes to .25/.50/.75/$1. Pretty much play all night for $20 for the big loser. We also say if 2 or 12 is scratched, you have to pay double if rolled.

This game is the reason I had custom dice made by @LeGold
 
Littleluck55 said:
We play this game all the time as a family. One of our favorite games. We lower the stakes to .25/.50/.75/$1. Pretty much play all night for $20 for the big loser. We also say if 2 or 12 is scratched, you have to pay double if rolled.

This game is the reason I had custom dice made by @LeGold
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Well shoot. Looks like I'm throwing something else on my bill now too. Glad to hear everyone enjoys it and the expected won/ loss range!
 
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fave $25 chips finally in play
 
wonderpuddle said:
League event #2 was a $20 rebuy tourney with 14 entrants and 53 rebuys so it ran super long and got almost my entire set on the felt. Fun night even though I busted right before the bubble when I shoved 1010 into @TricycleClub ’s JJ. Greg ultimately takes it down.

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Then cash after was mostly just horse racing. This was a blast.
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Got in a couple orbits of dealers choice at the end. Peyman hits quads on the the last hand of the night.
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14 * $20 = $280.
$20 * 53 = $1060.

$280 + $1060 = $1340. You had $1340 in prize money for a $20 14-person tournament!? Crazy! If you did a lenient 50%/30%/20% breakdown, that's $670 for first! $402 for second, and $268 for third. Insane!
 
AZBOARDER13 said:
Well shoot. Looks like I'm throwing something else on my bill now too. Glad to hear everyone enjoys it and the expected won/ loss range!
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Littleluck55 said:
We play this game all the time as a family. One of our favorite games. We lower the stakes to .25/.50/.75/$1. Pretty much play all night for $20 for the big loser. We also say if 2 or 12 is scratched, you have to pay double if rolled.

This game is the reason I had custom dice made by @LeGold
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How long do games take?

Got to say, that does look like fun! I wonder if I could squeeze in a game during a tournament break...probably not. But I'm always looking for pure luck-based games to have a chance to pay out some of the players who don't normally cash.
 
legonick said:
But I'm always looking for pure luck-based games to have a chance to pay out some of the players who don't normally cash.
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Nightly "Bad Beat" bonuses are a good way to do this. Best losing hand of the night gets paid (usually less than a full buy-in to keep someone from calling when they know they are beat). We also use other luck-based bonuses. PM me for details if interested, to avoid derailing this thread.
 
legonick said:
How long do games take?

Got to say, that does look like fun! I wonder if I could squeeze in a game during a tournament break...probably not. But I'm always looking for pure luck-based games to have a chance to pay out some of the players who don't normally cash.
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I think most games were 10-15 minutes.
legonick said:
14 * $20 = $280.
$20 * 53 = $1060.

$280 + $1060 = $1340. You had $1340 in prize money for a $20 14-person tournament!? Crazy! If you did a lenient 50%/30%/20% breakdown, that's $670 for first! $402 for second, and $268 for third. Insane!
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Yeah we had $1340 in the pool, but paid out four places (40/30/20/10) so basically $540 to first place. Our degenerates love rebuy tourneys. Lots of blind shoves early on.
 
wonderpuddle said:
I think most games were 10-15 minutes.

Yeah we had $1340 in the pool, but paid out four places (40/30/20/10) so basically $540 to first place. Our degenerates love rebuy tourneys. Lots of blind shoves early on.
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After only doing freeze out style tourneys for the first year or so we recently started doing rebuys and our prize pool has shot up an insane amount. Everybody loves a good rebuy (or three).
 
wonderpuddle said:
I think most games were 10-15 minutes.

Yeah we had $1340 in the pool, but paid out four places (40/30/20/10) so basically $540 to first place. Our degenerates love rebuy tourneys. Lots of blind shoves early on.
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megarises said:
After only doing freeze out style tourneys for the first year or so we recently started doing rebuys and our prize pool has shot up an insane amount. Everybody loves a good rebuy (or three).
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Yeah I'm still toying with offering a single re-buy...also considering the popular pre-buy. The last 2 games I had 2 different players (1 each game) who busted a bit early wonder about a re-buy. I also like the re-buy because some of my cheap-ass players...well, really this 1 guy who seems to attend about every other game and grumbled when we went from $15 buy-in to $20 buy-in...can bust and call it if he wants to. He doesn't need to spend the extra $20. But some players who think they can make a deep run or just don't care about another $20 but want to keep playing can toss in another shot. And with a pre-buy I'd have to cut my starting stack down in size, as the pre-buy becomes an add-on at some point, but with a pure re-buy, I wouldn't need to. And limiting it to 1 re-buy likely means I'd hopefully keep the same skillful, tight play.
 
wonderpuddle said:
Basically you deal out all the cards with the aces and kings removed. Those cards represent your bets on horses. Then you roll the dice to determine 4 scratched horses. So say you roll a 9. The 9 horse is scratched and everyone with a 9 card pays $1 and discards their nines. You roll for three more scratched horses that will cost $2, $3 and $4 each. Then the race starts. The first player rolls. If the number rolled matches a horse that was scratched, you pay the $1/2/3/4 cost and past the dice. If not, you move the horse forward a peg. Keep doing that until a horse reaches the finish line. Everyone with a card of that horse wins a quarter of the pot. So if the 11 horse wins, everyone with a jack wins. If you have two jacks, you get half the pot.

Here you can see the 4 horse was scratched in the $4 position. So every time someone rolled a 4, they paid $4 to the pot.

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Super fun game. Definitely got loud as the horses approached the finish line.
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I was introduced to that game at a Super Bowl party. We started at halftime. Didn’t watch the 2nd half at all!
Super fun game!
 
wonderpuddle said:
Basically you deal out all the cards with the aces and kings removed. Those cards represent your bets on horses. Then you roll the dice to determine 4 scratched horses. So say you roll a 9. The 9 horse is scratched and everyone with a 9 card pays $1 and discards their nines. You roll for three more scratched horses that will cost $2, $3 and $4 each. Then the race starts. The first player rolls. If the number rolled matches a horse that was scratched, you pay the $1/2/3/4 cost and past the dice. If not, you move the horse forward a peg. Keep doing that until a horse reaches the finish line. Everyone with a card of that horse wins a quarter of the pot. So if the 11 horse wins, everyone with a jack wins. If you have two jacks, you get half the pot.

Here you can see the 4 horse was scratched in the $4 position. So every time someone rolled a 4, they paid $4 to the pot.

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Super fun game. Definitely got loud as the horses approached the finish line.
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$20 on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Hey-Play-Wooden-Horse-Strategy/dp/B076X8M42Y
 
legonick said:
Not to poopoo, but some of the other ones look nicer. Having dedicated pegs makes it easier to see what spot a horse is in. Having the finish line be a single line instead of staggered per lane seems nicer to me. That said...price can't be beat I'd guess!
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I saw the same one posted for $82... It's certainly available (and nicer), but I posted this one as the cheapest option I found.

I'm not opposed to modifications to improve it once I see it.
 

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