The Winter Olympic Games are full of fun, excitement and fierce completion. Your game night will be too with these five winter Games dice games that are inspired by the ultimate in winter sports.
This is the second set of Olympic inspired games, you can check out the first set here. And if you’re into physical games, check out our Winter Minute to Win it games that get you out in the snow.
For these games you don’t need to suit up for winter. You will just need some dice and things to keep score with. The games include events in both downhill and cross country skiing and, speed and figure skating. Let’s get to them!
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The Winter Games: Cross Country Skiing
For this winter games event, you will need 8 dice. The goal is to be the first player to get to 100 points. To start, you will roll all 8 dice. You set aside one set of doubles. Next, you will reroll all remaining dice. Now set aside another pair of doubles and reroll.
You keep rolling and setting aside doubles until you either have all the dice in pairs or you don’t roll doubles. If you do not roll doubles, your turn is over and you score for the round. On the other hand, if you manage to get all the dice into pairs, you get to roll again!
When this happens you will first, add up your score. Next, set aside two dice so that you’re rolling only 6 dice. Play again, setting aside doubles as you roll. If you don’t roll doubles on any turn, your turn is over and you add any score to your earlier core for the round. If you again mange to get all your dice into pairs, you will add your score and remove one set of dice so you’re rolling only 4 dice. Keep going in this manner until you have either no dice to roll or have not rolled doubles.
Scoring: Add up all of the dice that are in pairs. This is your score for the round. Add it to any previous rounds for your overall score.
The first player to 100 points is the winner.
Moguls
For this winter games event, you will need 5 dice of one colour and one for players to roll of a different colour. To start, you will set up your moguls course. To do this, roll all five coloured dice. Reroll any 6s. Next The Winter Games:, place them in line starting with the smallest number and working your way to the largest number.
On your turn, you will roll the dice and see if you can get a higher number than the first mogul. If you do get a higher number, your score is the difference between the two numbers. For example, if the mogul is 2 and you roll a 5, your score for that one is 3. If you roll the same number or lower, you score 0 for that mogul. Keep rolling until you make your way down the hill.
When you reach the bottom of the hill, add up your scores for that rounds score. It is now the next competitors turn.
At the end of the round reroll all of the moguls and place them in order. You play that hill the same as the one before and add your score for both hills together.
For the third and final hill, you will reroll the moguls again. You play as before and add you third hill’s score to your scores from hill one and two.
The player with the highest score after all three hills is the winner.
The Winter Games: Speed Skating
Get your speed skates on for this next winter games event. You will need 6 dice. The goal is to be the player with the fastest (lowest) score after four laps around the track.
On your turn, roll all 6 dice. Set aside any dice that fit into a sequence from 1 to 6. They do not need to be in order. Next, reroll any dice that are not in the sequence. Keep rerolling until all of the dice are in the sequence. Your score is the number of rolls that it takes you to get the dice in the sequence.
It is now the next players turn to take a lap.
On your next turn, you play the same way with your lap score added to your first lap’s score.
Example lap:
First roll: 1, 3, 5,6, 3, 6 (the extra 3 and 6 are rerolled)
Second roll: 1,2 (the 2 is added to the sequence and the 1 is rerolled).
Third roll: 3 (reroll)
Fourth roll: 2
The lap score is 4.
The player with the lowest or fastest score after four laps is the winter.
The Winter Games: Alpine Skiing
In this winter games event, you will be competing to see who can skiing downhill the fastest. You will need two dice and a countdown for each player that starts at 100. To play, you will roll the two dice and add them together and subtract that number from the 100. You will then reroll the dice and add them together. If the sum is small than your first roll, you will subtract that amount from your total and roll again. On the other hand, if your sum was bigger than the first, your turn is over.
On your third roll, your sum must be smaller than your second roll. If it is, then subtract the amount from your total. If it is not, your turn is over.
When you are starting the second round of turns, you roll the two dice together and subtract that amount from your total. Your second roll now has to be smaller than your first roll in this second round of turns. Continue in this manner.
The first player to reach zero is the winner.
The Winter Games: Figure Skating
For this game you will need 8 dice. The goal is to get the highest score as you work your way through the program with elements getting worth more as you go.
To start, you will compete in the short program. For this, you will need 5 dice. On your turn, you will roll all 5 dice. Now you will decide what number to set aside as your first element. The first element is worth times one of that number. You have to set aside all of that rolled number. For example, if you choose to set aside the number 1 and you have three rolled 1s, then you place all three 1s to the side.
Once you set aside a number, you won’t be able to set aside dice with that same number again in that program. So if you set aside dice with the number 1, then any rolled 1s are unusable for that program.
You will then roll all the remaining dice for your second element. The second element is worth twice what you’ve rolled. You will continue rolling and choosing until you have reached the fifth element or have used all your dice.
If you roll and have no useable dice, then you take a 0 for that element.
Scoring
To score, you will add up all the dice in each element and then times it by the number of the element. First element is x1. The second element is x2. The third element is x3. The fourth is x4 and the fifth is x5.
An example game: Element 1: one 1 worth 1 point. Second element: two 3s (add 3 +3 = 6 x 2) worth 12 points. Third element: one 4 worth 12 points (4 x 3). Forth element: one 5 worth 20 points (5 x 4). Fifth element is 0. Add all the element points together for a score of 45.
Free Skate
For the second round, or the free skate, you will need 8 dice. As before, you will roll and decide what numbers to set aside for the first, second, third element and so on. There are now six elements to skate.
The play and the scoring is the same with the sixth element being the sum times 6.
Example free skate score:
First element: one 1, 1 point. Second element: two 2s for 8 points (2 +2 = 4 x 2). Third element: one 4 for 12 points (4 x 3). Fourth element: two 3s for 24 points (3 + 3 = 6 x 4). Fifth element: 0 for no points. Sixth element: two 6s for 72 points (6 + 6 = 12 x 6). The score for the free skate is 117.
With the score from the short program and the free skate this player would have a total score of 162.
The player with the highest combined score for both programs is the winner.
And is Gold Medal Goes to…
You! These winter games dice games are great for a full night of fun or for playing while waiting for your favorite winter Olympics event to start.
To make game night feel more like the Olympics, you can get our Winter Games pack in our shop. You get the directions for these five games, instructions for playing 8 more games, a game board, country flags, and printable medals. Check out the pack in the shop.
Check out our 8 other Olympic games here – Bobsled, Luge, Ski Jump and more.
Looking for fun in the snow? Check out Winter Minute to Win Games here.
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