Lucky Dice

The pitch

Sling the dice, merge the matches, and trigger huge chain reactions! Lucky Dice is the oddly satisfying merge puzzle where physics does the work. Pull a die back like a slingshot, take aim, and launch it across the board. When two matching dice touch, they merge into the next number — and that one flies off to find its own twin, kicking off a chain reaction. A single well-aimed shot can set off half the table in a cascade of merges. You won't be able to look away. 😌

Controls & how it runs

Aim, pull back, and launch dice across the board like a slingshot. When two matching dice touch, they merge into the next number and fly off to find their own match, triggering chain-reaction cascades. Each level gives you a limited number of throws and a target score to beat — plan your shots carefully to set off the biggest possible cascade and clear the board. Mobile Controls: Drag Back: Pull the die back to aim, like a slingshot. Release: Let go to launch the die in the aimed direction.

Getting a run going takes exactly one press: Press start, up top, and the game boots inside this page — nothing downloads in the background and no form wants your details before the first jump. The cabinet is drawn for a flexible screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture. Given a fullscreen button, use it — scores look better at full size, that's just science.

Pro tips for arcade cabinets

• Treat your first run as a scouting mission. Arcade cabinets hide their cruelty in the second minute, not the first — learn where the difficulty spikes before you start chasing numbers.
• Small scores compound. Grab the easy pickups on every pass instead of gambling the whole run on one heroic line; heroes respawn, banked points don't evaporate.
• Watch the edges of the screen. In classic arcade design the next problem almost always enters from somewhere you weren't looking — build the habit of scanning the borders.

Lucky Dice — quick-fire questions

Does Lucky Dice cost anything to play?

Not a token. The cabinet is free from the first run to the five-hundredth — no wallet, no sign-up, no toll booth hiding three levels in. The adverts around the page are what keep the floor's lights on.

What sort of game is Lucky Dice?

It stands on our Arcade row — that's the family it plays most like. The pitch above is the publisher's own rundown of what it throws at you and what it hands back.

Can I play Lucky Dice on my phone?

Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture.

Do I need to install anything first?

Nothing whatsoever. Lucky Dice is an HTML5 game: hit the start button and it boots on this page, and shutting the tab sweeps the cabinet clean behind you.

Before you wander off

Personal best banked, or still chasing it? Either way the full Arcade row is powered on and waiting — The main floor: 415 cabinets of pure arcade stock — the quick, the loud and the gloriously unfair. If it beeps, flashes and dares you to beat a number, it lives on this row.