The best roll & write games 🎲🖋 2023
Roll&Write games are (usually) small and handy dice games 🎲🖋. The player rolls the dice and marks the results on sheets of paper or erasable boards. Another common factor is that marking decisions made in previous turns constrain a player's marking decisions in future turns.
Roll & Write games in a nutshell
- The forefather of roll-and-write games is Yahtzee). In Germany named "Kniffel" appeared in 1972, but in the USA under the name "Yahtzee" already in 1956. Since then many different kinds of games with many creative ideas have appeared.
- In contrast to Kniffel (Once on your turn, you may roll the dice 3 times to make special combinations of dice. The goal is to achieve the highest possible score at the end. Risky decisions are provoked to win the game), modern incarnations of roll-&-write games may involve more direct player interaction. Sometimes in the form of dice selection, but sometimes by being the first to trigger a particular event or by locking out other players.
- Often not only one player's dice result is active, but all players can use it to take an action. The waiting time is therefore much shorter than with Kniffel - especially with several people.
- The games in the Kniffel family and their generic version "Yacht" are subgroups of the Roll-and-Write family. So these games also belong in this overview.
- Roll & Write often contain an extra solo variant.
- Sometimes cards are used instead of dice - then the games are called "Flip-and-Write". Since the principles are so similar, we have included the flip-and-write games in this list as well.
The best Flip-/Roll-&-Write games 🎲🖋
But now to our overview with the best Flip- and Roll-&-Write games 2023
That's Pretty Clever!
Nominated for 8 awards and won 1.
⭐️ Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2018
More details for That's Pretty Clever!- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Edition
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Edition- 1 - 6 Players
- 20 - 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Qwixx
Nominated for 9 awards and won 3.
⭐️ Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres 2013
⭐️ Nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2013
More details for Qwixx- 2 - 5 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Encore!
🔥 Deal: 6% cheaper than the best Geizhals deal, likely for a short time only!
More details for Encore!- 1 - 6 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
🔥 Great price!9€ at.de
Video reviews for Encore!
Railroad Ink: Blazing Red Edition
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Railroad Ink: Blazing Red Edition- 1 - 6 Players
- 20 - 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Qwixx: Connected
- 2 - 5 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Qwinto
- 2 - 6 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Qwixx: 10 Jahre Limited-Edition
- 2 - 4 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Lost Cities: Roll & Write
- 2 - 5 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Railroad Ink Challenge: Lush Green Edition
- 1 - 4 Players
- 15 - 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Qwixx: Big Points
- 2 - 5 Players
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Qwixx Mixx
- 2 - 5 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Twice as Clever!
Nominated for 3 awards.
More details for Twice as Clever!- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!9€ at.de
Calavera
- 2 - 4 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
👍 Good price!10€ at.de
Video reviews for Calavera
Qwixx On Board
- 2 - 4 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Dizzle
- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Trek 12: Himalaya
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Trek 12: Himalaya- 1 - 50 Players
- 15 - 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Fleet: The Dice Game (Second Edition)
- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Qwixx: Bonus
- 2 - 5 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age
Nominated for 10 awards and won 1.
⭐️ Nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2010
More details for Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Rolling Realms
Nominated for 3 awards.
More details for Rolling Realms- 1 - 6 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Railroad Ink Challenge: Shining Yellow Edition
- 1 - 4 Players
- 15 - 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!19€ at.de
Fleet: The Dice Game
- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Roll Through the Ages: The Late Bronze Age
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Roll Through the Ages: The Late Bronze Age- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Knapp Daneben!
- 1 - 5 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Knapp Daneben!
Harvest Dice
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Harvest Dice- 2 - 4 Players
- 15 - 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Bravo!
Nominated for 2 awards.
🔥 Deal: 10% cheaper than the best Geizhals deal, likely for a short time only!
More details for Bravo!- 1 - 6 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
🔥 Great price!8€ at.de
Video reviews for Bravo!
Twenty One
- 2 - 6 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Twenty One
Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice Charmers
- 2 - 5 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Criss Cross
- 1 - 6 Players
- 10 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Criss Cross
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