Description

Three Dice Cricket is a solo sports replay game of test cricket. It uses real-life batting and bowling averages to rate players with a match playing out as batting partnerships until ten wickets have been taken, ending the innings. Each team has two innings with the higher aggregate score over both innings winning or, after five-days' worth of play has occurred without a result, the match being declared a draw.

Each batsman rolls the dice once and references a scoring chart to determine how many runs they score, with higher-rated batsmen likely to reach higher run totals. The game also includes ways of incorporating weather and pitch conditions as well as the important aspect of determining how each batsman was out and the bowler/fielder involved in the dismissal.

A full match can be played to completion in 90-120 minutes.

There is also a refinement of the charts to utilise percentage dice (2 x D10) which the designer refers to as "Percentage Cricket." The gameplay is the same, the charts just give slightly different results.