Setup
Pour one of the little Chessex boxes of 36 six-sided dice in the middle of the table to make the pool.
Turns
Each player has a bank, zero or more dice kept face-up in front of them.
On their turn, a player first takes two or more dice from the pool and announces the count. Each other player may push one die from their bank forward, the number that player is “buying.” No more than one player can buy each number, with priority going in seating order.
Next the player actually throws their dice. If any two dice thrown sum to seven, the shooter has crapped out. All the thrown dice go back to the pool, pushed dice return to their owners, and no one scores. Otherwise, if a bought number was thrown, that bettor takes all thrown dice of that number into their bank. They also keep their pushed die. However if none of the thrown dice match the bettor’s bought number, the pushed die is lost to the pool. Finally, all thrown dice not bought by a bettor go into the thrower’s bank.
The game ends when fewer than two dice are left in the pool. Then total the number of pips in your bank, and the most wins.
Strategy
The more dice the shooter takes, the likelier any number lands. Back a shooter who takes four or more, and buy your highest die. You win the thrower’s matching dice, so a big throw feeds the bettors — the thrower can take fewer to starve them.