Happy Birthday¸ Robot!
A storytelling party game appropriate for children. Each player takes turns starting a sentence to the story¸ using a limited number of words based on a die roll and passed coins. Every story starts with the same first sentence: Happy Birthday¸ Robot! On a player's turn¸ they roll up to three dice to roll using d6s where 1-2 is AND¸ 3-4 is BUT¸ and 5-6 is blank. The player keeps blank dice¸ passes BUTs to the left and ANDs to the right. The player can continue to roll until either neighbor has four dice. The player then writes a sentence where each die is a word¸ and the word Robot can be used once for free. Then the right neighbor can add words equal to his dice using and once for free; and the left neighbor can add words equal to his dice using but once for free. The storyteller player collects coins (heads up) for each blank die used. A heads-up coin can be passed to another player to be used as an extra word in a sentence¸ turned tails-up. The game ends when a player has ten or more coins and there is the epilogue. The rulebook includes optional rules as well as a number of sample stories written by playtesters. - A description fromdarkshire.netwith kind permission of John H. Kim