User:Berndpelo/Peloney

Peloney is a dice game for two invented by Bernd Peloney in 1953. It is among the most popular dice games in Hesse, Germany and was elected 'Wuerfelspiel des Jahres 1954' ('Dice Game of the Year 1954') by the German dice game journal 'WuerfelWurst '.

All you need for playing Peloney is five dices and a shaker. Players try to guess the numbers for each throw. After each throw the player closest to the actual result has the right to dictate a 'punishment' for the other player. Punishments can be chosen freely, albeit there are a few exceptions: punishments involving severely disabled people, eating fruit and running barefoot in the snow are prohibited.

The only other rule concerns the so called 'Peloney': A Peloney is a guess that is exactly true (eg. Player A bet on '17' and the following throw resulted in 17). After a Peloney occured the player who first cries 'Peloney!' has the right to dictate two punishments.

In some parts of southern Hesse people usually play a variant of this rule: Whenever there is a Peloney, the player that is slower in crying 'Peloney!' has to run barefoot in the snow whilst eating fruit and cursing severely disabled people in a political incorrect way. In these parts of Hesse the game used to be the traditional family game on Christmas Day.