Designer: Kenechukwu Ogbuagu
Publisher: Nibcard Games
1-8 players | 20 min. | ages 7+ | MSRP $24.99
Time to teach & learn: 2-3 minutes
Game Synopsis
Oya One More is a press-your-luck dice and card game. Players race to reach a point total by matching dice they rolled to the pattern on a card. Here’s the catch! You can match only a single die to a card or ALL the dice to a card. You can stop and bank your points, but if you want to keep going, you flip another card. Each card you score entices you to try for another, but if you bust, all your gains this turn are lost. Special cards may also entice you to keep going – allowing you to add points, steal dice, and manipulate or reroll dice. Bonuses for filling a card or using all the dice will have everyone chanting OYA ONE MORE as you decide whether to stop or keep going.
Why We Love Oya One More
Oya One More is a dice game that creates tension by how you spend your five dice instead of how you roll them. You roll only once each turn and then hope to apply the results on the dice to the card you have drawn. Sometimes a bust will happen right away. In this case, perhaps the dice gods really dont love you! In most cases, though, you’ll assign a single die to a card to score it or occasionally fill the card (which triggers a score multiplier).
Now the real fun and tension begins! Do you stop and bank your score or do you keep going? If you only have a couple dice left to assign, this can be a risky move, especially if they are the same value. Then again, it might be worth the risk, since bonuses for using all your dice or filling a card are tremendous. Special cards can also tempt you to continue since many of them help skew the odds in your favor. Oya One More is a game of relentless temptation. Can you resist?
Oya is the word for quickly in the Nigerian Pidgin Language and the game takes this word to heart. Turns are fast and furious. Every turn people are engaged. Everyone leans in to see whether a player busts or gets to keep going. Someone at the table will be cheering or moaning each time a card is drawn. Either the crowd will be cheering when another player busts, or the active player will be celebrating when they stop with a good score.
There are two other variants included, inspired by Blackjack and Poker, which add additional ways to explore and enjoy the game system – assigning dice to cards.
Press Your Luck games are accessible to such a wide array of players young and old. This can explain their popularity and success across many years. However, most press your luck games walk down a well worn road and fail to offer players a new or challenging experience. Oya One More creates a new approach for players to press their luck and in doing so carves a path straight to Major Fun.
Congratulations to designer Kenechukwu (KC) Ogbuagu
More information on Oya One More here
