Talk:Acey-deucey

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[edit] Rules

The way we always played Acey-Deucey, is that the opponent gets to use any number that you can't use.

Thus, if you are on the bar, you definitely need to get off the bar and come in; suppose you roll double fives, and the opponent has covered the 5-spot, what do you do? Nothing, because you are out of luck. Worse, the opponent gets to use the double fives, because everything rolled has to be used if it is at all possible, and he uses your double fives before he gets his turn.

Similarly if you have two men on the bar, and you roll something like a two and a three, and one of those points is already covered by your opponent, you can bring in only one of your men, but the other man remains on the bar. The way we play it, any number you can't use, ought to be used by your opponent. Hence, in the above example, you bring in one man but the opponent gets to use the other number.

When all of your men are in the home court, the numbers you throw relate to bearing men off, as moving the men from point to point is forbidden. This makes placement of the men an important matter before you bring that very last man home to your home court.

Finally, another house rule is something a little bit more serious: it makes the rule mandatory instead of optional; if you can't use a given number, then the opponent HAS to use the number!