The History of Critter Roll
Rolling five dice up to three times and choosing where to score is an old dice game idea - here with animals instead of numbers.
A family of dice games
Critter Roll belongs to a family of dice games in which five dice may be rolled up to three times per turn and the result is written into one of several boxes. The oldest documented member is Yacht, described in a book of games in 1938. Related games are the English Poker Dice, the Latin American Generala and Yatzy, which is played above all in the Nordic countries.
This Version
Critter Roll was made for PaperGames, with its own rules: animals instead of numbers, a paw as a joker, eleven fields with pictures and no sums to work out. The animal drawings are the same as in Zoo Toss.