Pipsmith

Each floor is a six-slot scorecard with a target score. Roll five dice, lock the ones you like, reroll up to twice, then bank the result into a category to end the turn. Beat the floor's target to climb; fall short and the run ends.

• Hold the dice you want to keep, then reroll the rest to chase a better combination.
• Bank your roll into an open category, each slot can only be used once per floor.
• Clear a floor to draft one forge upgrade: load a face, gild a die for double pips, or make one wild.
• Targets rise quickly with each floor, so your forged dice have to outpace them.

• Desktop: click a die to hold or release it, click reroll, and click a scorecard row to bank.
• Phone & tablet: tap dice to hold, tap reroll, tap a category to bank, the whole game is pointer-driven.

• Daily Climb, one shared tower of the same dice and targets for everyone that day.
• Endless, a fresh run with new dice and a new tower every time.

• Forge weak faces early; one wild or gilded die compounds across every later floor.
• Bank conservatively on easy floors and save your big categories for when the target spikes.

The scorecard is Yahtzee's exactly: five dice, up to three rolls a turn, and categories that can each be used only once. Edwin S. Lowe marketed it under that name in 1956, itself a development of older dice games including Yacht and Generala.

What is grafted on is the roguelike run: each floor sets a target score, beating it climbs, and missing it ends the run.

That single change fixes Yahtzee's known weakness. In the original a wasted category is a small arithmetic loss you carry to the end; against a floor target it can kill you immediately, so the decision that was always the interesting one — where to spend a mediocre roll — finally has teeth.

Pipsmith reimagines the classic five-dice category-scoring game as a roguelike tower climb, where upgrading your dice between floors is the whole strategy. It is an original, free browser game built in-house for PlayPendium.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.