Inkwell Dice

A 1930s rubberhose cartoon dice roguelike. Roll five elemental dice, chase combos, stack relics, and outscore your rival, solo or head to head with a friend.

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The Pitch

Every run is a deck building puzzle. You start with plain dice and grow a roster of relics that bend the scoring rules in your favor. Read the board, commit to a strategy, and push your luck. One bad round and the boss takes a heart.

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Modes

• Solo Run. Roguelike campaign across multiple acts. Beat the per blind threshold, visit the shop between blinds, survive the boss. Lose all lives and the run ends.
• Multiplayer, Classic. Both players race the same seeded blinds with a shared threshold. First to clear wins the round. First to run out of lives loses the run.
• Multiplayer, Battle. Fast 1v1 PvP. Draft 3 relics from a 5 card starter pool, then 1 new relic between each round. Both players score simultaneously. The lower score drops a heart. First to zero hearts loses. Ties replay with a fresh draft.

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Core Loop

1. Five dice roll onto the table.
2. Click any die to hold it, then reroll the rest (up to 3 rerolls per round).
3. Hit submit to score your best combo plus element bonuses plus relic effects.
4. Pass the threshold (solo, classic) or outscore your rival (battle).

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Combos (highest to lowest)

Relics stack score modifiers on top: flat bonuses, multipliers, per combo triggers, end of run powerspikes.

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Curses

Was the game too easy? Play with curses to add extra difficulty to your game. Choose up to 3 curses at the time. This is only available after passing Solo Run at least once.

Controls

                                                                                                        
   Action                 |  Keyboard       |  Mouse                                                                                                                  
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   Reroll                 |  R              |  Click the wooden cup                                                                                                   
   Submit                 |  Enter          |  Click the wax seal                                                                                                     
   Hold or release a die  |  1 2 3 4 5      |  Click the die                                                                                                          
   Help booklet           |  ?              |  Click the book icon                                                                                                    
  

In multiplayer Battle, a 60 second timer runs each round. At 0 the round auto submits with whatever is on the board. Do not sit on it.

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Getting Started

1. Open Main Menu then Solo Run to learn the dice, combos, and relics against the campaign.
2. Open Main Menu then Multiplayer and pick a display name (optional).
3. Launch Server to host (share the 4 character code) or Join Match to enter a friend's code. Choose Classic or Battle in Match Config.
4. Win by beating thresholds, running your rival out of hearts, or just having the bigger dice night.

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Tips

• Hold aggressively. Three matching dice plus a reroll on the other two is almost always better than rerolling the whole hand.
• Read the relics before drafting. A relic that doubles pairs is wasted if you keep chasing five of a kind.
• Match elements on purpose. Full Element is a huge swing, and a lot of relics key off elemental counts.
• In Battle mode, variance is your friend when you are behind. Reroll more, chase upside.

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Good luck. The dice remember nothing.