How to Play
If you can roll dice, you know the table. Each face moves a Buck; the final Buck decides who owns the table challenge.
How a Table Works
Set Starting Bucks
Every player starts with the same number of Bucks. The host picks 1 to 9 when setting the table.
Roll Your Dice
On your turn, roll one die for each Buck you're holding, up to three dice. No Bucks? Your turn is skipped.
Read the Dice
Each die resolves one Buck. The four faces are:
- One Buck slides to your neighbor on the left.
- One Buck slides to your neighbor on the right.
- One Buck leaves your stack and heads to the Pot.
- Keep that Buck in your stack.
Pass the Table
Pass the phone to the next player in pass-and-play, or wait for your turn across devices. Keep circling the table.
Last One Holding
The table ends when the final Buck is decided: one player still holds it, or it lands in the Pot. The mode decides whether that outcome is a privilege or a consequence.
The Two Modes
Win It
The Buck stops with the last holder
The classic frame. The last player holding the final Buck wins the table privilege. Strategy: hold steady — root for ✱ (keep) and hope the dice stay quiet.
Bucks are gameplay pieces and earned progress markers. They cannot be redeemed for money, prizes, gambling, or real-world goods.
Avoid It
Last holder owns the consequence
Same dice, flipped framing. The last player holding the final Buck owns the friendly consequence the host set. Strategy inverts: shed Bucks — root for L, R, and C.
The mechanics never change. Only the challenge changes: in Win It, the final Buck is good; in Avoid It, it's trouble.
Receipts
Win the proof
When a table ends, Pass the Buck writes a receipt: who the final Buck stopped with, the table prompt, the mode, the Pot count, and the date.
- Compete for it: In Win It, the receipt marks the player who earned the privilege.
- Prove the consequence: In Avoid It, the receipt shows who owned the friendly consequence.
- Share the story: Post the receipt, tag the table, and run it back.
Signed-in cross-device tables are saved under Receipts in Account, so the argument ends where the receipt starts.