Zilch

Scoring table

Scoring table

The story

Zilch is a dice game of great skill and a little luck, as the author’s saying. Indeed, after you play it for a while you realize that on the long run, in order to win, you don’t need any luck at all. It’s much more important to know how to play your dices, to know when to roll again and when to stop.

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Gameplay

You play against the computer in turns. You roll your 6 dices and if you win at least 300 points you can chose to roll again or cash in. If you chose to roll again, you can be busted (or “zilched”) by getting no winning combination and lose the previous points in your current turn. If all your 6 dices are part of a winning combination, you get a free roll. This is very good because it increases your score very much. Who gets to 10,000 points wins the game.

Game in progress

Game in progress

There are 3 modes of the CPU: easy, normal and hard, and they are actually called reckless, cautious and realist. The realist mode makes you feel like you would play with a human player and not with a computer.

What’s great about this game is that it has awards, and it really has lots of them. This makes you want to play again and again to earn as many as you can!

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Awards page

Awards page

Conclusion

Although Zilch is a simple dice game, the realist CPU and the high variety of awards make it unique and fun to play.

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Click to play the game!

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RATINGS

GRAPHICS: 4 out of 5 stars

Pretty good for a dice game. Dice animation is also great

SOUNDS: 3.5 out of 5 stars

No music but the sounds are ok

GAMEPLAY: 5 out of 5 stars

Nice and very addicting

4.16
OVERALL: 4.16/5

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