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Balut

Type of program: Dice Game
Supported platforms: Win 95/98
Company name: KSB-Software
Authors e-mail address: boldt@post3.tele.dk
Version: 1.1
Cost: 0
Installed size: 328 KB

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This is rather a strange dice game, kinda like yatzee. You get 3 rolls per turn, you play yourself, and there are 4 columns of what you need to roll. Unlike yatzee, the only needs are 4's, 5's, 6's, straights, full houses, choice, and Balut.

Ah, what's a Balut you ask? Well, that is one reason I don't care for the game. There is no help file. Personally, I don't care how easy it is to play a game, I don't think that it's that hard to write a small help file. In the file folder, there is a readme file, we discover that a Balut is worth 2 points, but we still don't know what it is! I would imagine that it is 5 of a kind, but I never rolled one, so I still don't know. 

I realize that the game is free, but I don't think a small help file is asking too much. The other thing I don't like about the game is that there are too few "needs", perhaps some would say that the less dice combinations you need to get the harder it is, but I like the diversity of the longer list of needs that yatzee and yatzee clones have. On the other hand, the price is right, huh?

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Reviewed by Stormy Strock


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