Three Pips

Players: 2

Equipment: 8x8 chess board, two sets of 6 dice for each player (of different colors), and one more pair of dice (any color).

Setup: Arrange the 6 dice on the first row of the board. They should be placed in ascending order of 1-2-3-4-5-6 from left to right from their owner’s point of view. The one should be on the second square from the left and the six should have one empty space to its right. Hereafter, these dice are called dicemen.

Object: To use exactly two of your own dice and one of the opposing player’s dice to form a string of three consecutive numbers. This string of dice does have to be adjacent to one another either horizontally, vertically or diagonally.