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Ninja Dice

#8157BGG ↗

2013 · 2-5 players · 30min · weight 1.30 · 1,068 ratings

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Rating
5.63
Users rated
1,068
Owned
2,722
Wishing
177

At a glance

What playing it feels like, broken down.

Core loop

Roll House dice to set challenges, roll Skill dice to beat them; re-roll to push luck but adds Threat dice from opponents.

What it gives you
How strongly each kind of experience comes through (0–3)
Sensation
1
Fantasy
2
Narrative
0
Challenge
2
Fellowship
2
Discovery
1
Expression
1
Submission
2
How it works (4 mechanics)
  • [3]push_your_luck_escalation— “remain and roll again - but each re-roll adds threat of the other Ninja, who can roll Threat dice to steal treasure”
  • [2]dice_mitigation— “players roll Skill dice to beat challenges including Stealth, Fighting, and Lock picking skills”
  • [2]_other:positional_dice_bonus— “Fortune faces boost dice only if the dice being boosted lie in specific positions on the table”
  • [2]escalating_threat— “play proceeds in three rounds of increasing difficulty with highest scoring player winning”
Under-the-radar score: -0.71

Raw extraction payloads

The JSON rows behind this page, before analysis turns them into candidate ranking signals.

V4 wide feature rowgame_llm_features_v4.raw_json · v4-wide · vocab v1 · 2026-05-03
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    },
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