Triple Showdown

Triple Showdown is a competitive 2-player poker dice game variant of Showdown. The goal is to roll and re-roll dice to form poker hands and triplets to score more points than your opponent.

This game uses 2× and 3× multipliers that rewards scoring subsequent poker hands and triplets.

This game is a Junior original, created by Louie Mantia.

Dice

Poker dice § Dice

This game uses five six-sided poker dice.

9	10	J	Q	K	A

Setup

Track progress with a Triple Showdown scorecard.

Choose a player to begin.

Gameplay

Goal

Roll the dice to form poker hands and triplets.

Your Turn

When your turn begins, roll all five dice. After rolling, you may choose to re-roll once or twice more, with any or all dice.

Next, choose a row to score your turn. Each row can only be scored by one player. After scoring a row for yourself, score zero points in your opponent’s column for that same row. The next player to score in that row gets double points. The player who scores in that row for the third time gets triple points.

If your roll isn’t ideal or doesn’t meet the requirements of a row, your turn ends without scoring any points.

After rolling and scoring, your turn is over. Now it’s the next player’s turn.

Continue until all rows and columns are scored.

Ending

The player with the highest total score wins!

If the players have identical scores, rejoice in the shared victory!

Scoring

For each row, you must roll what’s displayed or described to score that row’s points.

Triplets									Points
					Aces				3
					Kings				3
					Queens				3
					Jacks				3
					Tens				3
					Nines				3
Poker Hands									Points
					Four of a Kind				8
					Big Straight Five in a Row				7
					Small Straight Four in a Row				6
					Full House Three of a Kind, One Pair				5
					Maiden One Queen, Four Pips*				4
					One Pair				2
Bonus Points
					Bonus If Triplets Total is 54+				15

“Pips” refers to non-court faces, like Nine, Ten, and Ace.

Strategy

In the normal version of Showdown, players are rewarded for being the first to score a row. However, in Triple Showdown, players are rewarded more for subsequent scoring in a row. In this example, Louie scored a Full House the first two times, and Manami scored a Full House for the third time. Both players scored exactly 15 points, but Louie spent two turns to accomplish the same score that Manami accomplished in one.

In this game, you’ll balance choosing to score the rows that come most easily with the rows that score the most points.

Related

See also

• Poker dice
• Junior Royals
• Junior

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