{"id":1359,"date":"2026-10-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folla.fi\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:59:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:59:38","slug":"4200-points-lying-on-the-table-do-you-take-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folla.fi\/fi\/4200-points-lying-on-the-table-do-you-take-them\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u00f6yd\u00e4ll\u00e4 on 4 200 pistett\u00e4 \u2013 otatko ne?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link button primary wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/games.folla.fi\/10k\/\">Play now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4,200 points. Just lying there.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s the moment I love most in <strong>Ten Thousand<\/strong> (<em>Zehntausend<\/em>), the dice game I learned years ago in Switzerland. When the player before you banks, you may inherit their round: take over their points and their leftover dice, and keep rolling. Or bust and lose it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, playing with my wife and kids, one round just wouldn&#8217;t die. I inherited it, added my share and banked. Then it turned into a piranha feeding frenzy \ud83d\udc1f: my wife took it over, then my son, then my daughter, everyone biting off a little more and banking. My daughter pushed it from 3,600 to 4,200. Back to me, second chance to inherit. I took it, rolled, and&#8230; nothing. Not one scoring die. A full lap around the family, 4,200 points, and I was the one who ended it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The rules in 30 seconds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You roll 5 dice. Each roll, set aside at least one scoring die, then roll the rest again or bank your points.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A 1 is worth 100, a 5 is worth 50. Three of a kind is the face \u00d7 100, and three 1s are 1,000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Score with all 5 dice and you get to roll all 5 again.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Roll nothing that scores and the round&#8217;s points are gone. Three busts in a row halve your total.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Inheriting:<\/strong> when the player before you banks, you can take over their points and their leftover dice instead of starting fresh. This is where it gets exciting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First to 10,000 wins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From the table to the phones<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After that evening I wanted the game on our phones, so we could play anywhere (and I could practise). One thing led to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/media.folla.fi\/folla-main\/20261020093236\/10k-local.png\" alt=\"Ten Thousand in Local mode: five dice on a table above a painted village\" class=\"wp-image-1363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.folla.fi\/folla-main\/20261020093236\/10k-local.png 1000w, https:\/\/media.folla.fi\/folla-main\/20261020093236\/10k-local-7x12.png 7w, https:\/\/media.folla.fi\/folla-main\/20261020093236\/10k-local-768x1228.png 768w, https:\/\/media.folla.fi\/folla-main\/20261020093236\/10k-local-960x1536.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Local<\/strong> is one phone passed around the table, or you against the computer. The CPU comes in three levels; the hardest one plays the mathematically best move, and yes, it also weighs whether an inheritance is worth taking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"2151\" src=\"https:\/\/media.folla.fi\/folla-main\/20261020093502\/10k-empire.png\" alt=\"Ten Thousand in Empire mode: game code and QR code to invite players\" class=\"wp-image-1364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.folla.fi\/folla-main\/20261020093502\/10k-empire.png 1000w, https:\/\/media.folla.fi\/folla-main\/20261020093502\/10k-empire-6x12.png 6w, https:\/\/media.folla.fi\/folla-main\/20261020093502\/10k-empire-714x1536.png 714w, https:\/\/media.folla.fi\/folla-main\/20261020093502\/10k-empire-768x1651.png 768w, https:\/\/media.folla.fi\/folla-main\/20261020093502\/10k-empire-952x2048.png 952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Empire<\/strong> is for when everyone wants their own phone. Start a game, the others scan the QR code and they&#8217;re in. Lose the connection and it puts you back in your seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It runs in the browser: no app to install, no account, free. English, German, French, Italian and Finnish (and one more, if you find it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Under the hood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tiny game server on Cloudflare&#8217;s network rolls the dice, so nobody can cheat by &#8220;rolling&#8221; on their own phone. Each game lives in its own small room on the server, close to the players, and costs next to nothing to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s the same kind of work we do for our clients&#8217; websites: fast, secure, and no bigger than it needs to be. Just more fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Feeling luckier than me?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link button primary wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/games.folla.fi\/10k\/\">Roll the dice<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want something built for your own site, a game or not? <a href=\"https:\/\/folla.fi\/fi\/#contact\">Ota yhteytt\u00e4<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One round of Ten Thousand went around our whole family, and I was the one who ended it. Now you can play it, free.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mwseo_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","_kiss_seo_title":"","_kiss_seo_excerpt":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,44,42,43],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cloudflare","tag-dicegame","tag-sideproject","tag-webdevelopment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folla.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folla.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folla.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folla.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folla.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/folla.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/folla.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folla.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folla.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folla.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folla.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}