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The first incarnation of Pennywise was called Fight. At first, that There is a pot in the middle of the table. Players will
game had multiple characters, but not like this version. The original take turns playing one coin into the pot. After you play a
coin, you may withdraw from the pot any set of coins that
characters were intended to be balanced for play against one another, adds up to less than the value of the coin you put in. For
but that balancing act proved nearly impossible, and the game was example, if you put in a dime, you can take back up to 9
eventually published using the Cody recipe as the only set of coins. cents. (You should always take back as much as you can.)
In this version, each different character describes a set of coins that The goal is to run your opponent out of coins. Your
score is the number of cents that you have remaining when
all players must use. This varies the game while keeping it fair. your opponent plays his last coin. Keep score over multiple
games, alternating who goes first.
After our original attempts to create multiple characters for
Pennywise, we tried again in a game called Zodiac, which eventually To play with more than two players, use the same
became the paper dice game called Diceland. In Zodiac, each basic rules, with the turn passing to the left. In this case,
when one player is knocked out, the game is over, and the
character was a differently numbered set of three 8-sided dice. player with the most points wins.
Eventually this dice-are-a-character concept was honed into Button Visit www.cheapass.com to find versions of these
Men, a mean little dice game where every character is a collection of characters formatted as trading cards. You can also print
roughly five polyhedral dice. It won some awards and stuff. your own coins, which is useful unless you have a lot of 2-,
3-, and 20-cent pieces lying around.
Coins: 1 2 3 5 10 20 25
Taylor: 3 2 1
Sugar: 2 2 2 1
Darlene: 3 3 2 1
Cody: 4 3 2 1
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