About Ridge Roll
Roll on or make camp? Ridge Roll is a push-your-luck dice game made for PaperGames, in the old family of dice games in which one more roll can cost everything.
Dice games with a risk
In many dice games you decide again and again whether to roll once more for a bigger gain or to keep what you have. The game designer Reiner Knizia calls them "jeopardy dice games" in his book Dice Games Properly Explained (1999).
Pig
A well-known example is Pig, first described in print by the American magician John Scarne in 1945. You roll one die as often as you like and add up the numbers; a 1 ends the turn and the points of the turn are lost. Whoever stops keeps the sum. The game is probably older than its first description.
This Version
Ridge Roll was made for PaperGames, with its own board and texts: seven ridges for the sums of two dice, the outer ones for three sums each, their own lengths set by measurement in computer games, camps and climbers, and a first player drawn by lot.