Eleven up

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Eleven high is a simple game of chance with two or three dice for two or more people.

Eleven high with two dice

The rules

The following rule is based on rule books from game collections from Klee-Spiele and West Side .

At the beginning each player pays one token into the cash register .

When it is a player’s turn he rolls two dice.

  • If he throws twelve eyes, he has to pay twelve tokens into the till or - according to another variant - double the contents of the till.
  • If he casts eleven eyes, he can withdraw the contents of the till, and each participant pays another token into the till.
  • If he throws ten or fewer eyes, he has to pay as many tokens into the till as he lacks in eleven eyes. H. if he throws around seven eyes, he has to pay 11 - 7 = 4 tokens into the till.

additions

If you play with doubling up, eleven is a very risky game for the participants: you usually only have to pay four to five tokens in a single round (on average you throw seven eyes, ie four eyes are missing for eleven) - it However, it can happen that no penalty is thrown for a long time, but several twelve are thrown and a player would then have to pay several thousand tokens into the till.

It is therefore absolutely necessary to agree a maximum with this type of game too, so that a player, if he throws twelve eyes, does not have to pay more than this maximum amount.

Eleven high with three dice

On the list of forbidden games of the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Justice from 1904 there is "Elf hoch (with 3 dice)" - the rules of this game, as given in Friedrich Anton's Encyklopädie der Spiele , Leipzig 1889, correspond to those of the Paschen dice game .

literature

For the game with two dice:

Rulebook for a game collection from the Kleespiele company, no year (approx. 1980)
Rulebook for a game collection from West-Side, no year (approx. 1980)

For the game with three dice:

Friedrich Anton Encyclopedia of Games , Leipzig 1889