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Button Men box art
1999 Ranked #5,073

Button Men

This dice-combat game has players roll unique character dice and capture opposing dice sides for the highest total. Each character’s dice create distinct combat abilities, so casualties change the tactical options during a duel.

Customizable Games Collectible Components Dice Push Your Luck Dice Rolling

Players

2

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

1.52/5

Rating

6.36

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

This game gained a quick following after one of the major gaming conventions of 1999. It features several characters, represented on actual stickpin buttons, that each have a unique allowance of polyhedral dice.

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This game gained a quick following after one of the major gaming conventions of 1999. It features several characters, represented on actual stickpin buttons, that each have a unique allowance of polyhedral dice. These dice endow each character with fairly unique combat abilities. Players roll the dice against each other and take their opponents' dice as casualties. The object of the game is take out the most die 'sides' during the combat. It's quite simple, quite inventive, and deeper than it would seem at first.

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Play and group

Players
2
Best with
2
Play time
5 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.5/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
James Ernest

Artists

3
Pete Abrams Gerald Brom Phil Foglio

Publishers

1
Cheapass Games