Talk:Greed (dice game)

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This game appears to be a slight variation on farkle. The main difference is that in Greed a player's score is banked when they have (what in farkle is called) hot dice, so they don't risk it in rolling a fresh set of six dice. All of the other scoring and play characteristics fall within the range of variations reported for farkle. Also, the article is rather sloppy and has some grammatical errors. Given all that, one could argue for deleting with a redirect to farkle, as long as slight changes are made to the farkle page acknowledging greed as a name for a variant in which scores are not risked in throwing hot dice. Any thoughts on this?Jbening 01:49, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Farkle is a variation of greed, yes, or vice-versa. It has been difficult to track the origin to the game. I found that there are nearly a hundred different ways to play, ranging from differences in the number of dice to the ways you score. Yet, all of these games were similar enough to be considered a variant of play - just as Farkle is. - Trakx 06:41, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

I second the motion that this be absorbed into the Farkle page, maybe with a rehashing of the rule variants specific to this game. As I've played it, scores are risked when throwing hot dice. Also we required that all scoring dice be kept, as opposed to the rules of Farkle appear to allow you to pick and choose which dice to keep. Holyhamster (talk) 06:38, 20 December 2009 (UTC)


 * As someone who learned this game under the name of Farkle, I'm also sympathetic with merging this into Farkle, but I think the more stable approach would be to keep it the way it is. Already, the Farkle article gets edited from time to time by people who are determined that the rules of Farkle have to be the rules they learned--not accepting that as a folk game it naturally is played with a range of variant rules. My hunch is that some people who have learned the game under the name of Greed would object to the article being subordinated to Farkle and would periodically rename the page, reverse the redirect, rewrite a Greed article, etc. I wonder if it would be worth the trouble.Jbening (talk) 15:36, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Rather than absorb Greed into Farkle, why aren't both games absorbed into Dice 10000, and have Farkle and Greed redirect there? By and large, it seems like 3 pages duplicating essentially the same content, even going so far as to include the same variants. DriftwoodBadger (talk) 03:41, 31 January 2011 (UTC)