99 Balloons

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99 Balloons is a push your luck with dice and card shedding for points game. On a players turn you will roll the three modified dice to see if the number matches any cards in your hand. You discard matching number cards for points until someone reaches 99 points or more to end the game. The modified dice have certain numbers blacked out to represent wind. Wind allow other player to discard cards even when it is not their turn. If you are unable to discard any cards or buy cards from the market you will bust and be left with negative points of the cards in your hand plus an extra random card from the deck. Game takes around 20 minute even at different player count. Game can be played with 2-5 player. Home made copies can easily be made with two standard playing card decks and 3 dice that have pips that can be blacked out. More detailed instruction can be found with the rule to the game.

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