Hochstapeln

Hochstapeln consists of four dice and 24 diagonal cylinder pieces in four colors. Each player gets six diagonal cylinders and a die. Players roll dice, and the highest number starts. Then players roll dice and start to build a tower. Each round, cylinder pieces are added to the tower according to the dice roll. The dice have numbers from 1 to 3; on a 2 one can decide to challenge an opponent who has to stack one's own pieces or roll a two to defeat the challenge. The game ends when: one of the players has none of the cylinder pieces left without knocking the tower down. Other players count their left over cylinders and get a point for each. the tower is knocked down. The player who knocked it down gets one point for each cylinder in the tower and other players get a point for every cylinder they have left. The game is played multiple rounds which are determined before the game starts. After every round the points are counted and the player who has the fewest points at the end of the game wins.