🎲 ROLL & WRITE ✏️

Shake the cup. Roll the dice. Break the rules.

🎲 β€’ ✏️ β€’ 🎲 β€’ ✏️ β€’ 🎲

Roll & Write is a Yahtzee-inspired roguelike where classic dice combinations collide with powerful Writing Tools, massive score multipliers, unpredictable upgrades, and increasingly difficult challenges.

Roll five dice, choose which ones to hold, and spend your limited rerolls carefully. Create familiar combinations such as Full Houses, Straights, Four of a Kind, and Yahtzees—but don’t expect the rules to stay normal for long.

Throughout each run, you’ll collect strange and powerful Writing Tools that can completely change how you play. Pencils, pens, markers, crayons, erasers, rulers, typewriters, and other stationery-themed items can modify dice, improve combinations, create multipliers, and unlock entirely new strategies.

Every run brings new tools, new choices, and new ways to create ridiculous scores.

🎲 Roll. Hold. Score.

Each turn begins with five dice and a limited number of rolls.

Choose which dice to hold, reroll the rest, and try to create the strongest combination possible. Once you’re satisfied—or you’ve run out of rerolls—select a scoring category and unleash your build.

Reach the target score to survive the round, earn rewards, and continue your run.

Targets become increasingly demanding, forcing you to improve your collection, experiment with new strategies, and discover stronger combinations before your luck runs out.


✏️ Build Your Stationery Arsenal

Writing Tools are the heart of every build. Each one provides a unique ability that can affect:

  • 🎲 Dice values and rerolls
  • πŸ”’ Held dice
  • πŸ“ Straights and matching numbers
  • ✨ Score multipliers
  • πŸͺ™ Coins and shop rewards
  • πŸ“ Scoring categories
  • 🌟 Rare combinations
  • πŸ”₯ Risk-and-reward strategies

Some tools work perfectly together, creating powerful combinations and build-defining synergies. Others completely rewrite the rules of the game.

Finding the right combination can turn an ordinary roll into a screen-filling score explosion.


πŸ›’ Visit the Shop

Earn coins by completing rounds and spend them between challenges.

Purchase new Writing Tools, improve your build, replace weaker items, and prepare for the increasingly difficult rounds ahead.

You might find exactly what your strategy needs—or be forced to improvise with something completely unexpected.

Will you create a carefully planned scoring engine, or build a chaotic pile of tools and hope everything somehow works?

⭐ Features

  • 🎲 Yahtzee-inspired dice scoring
  • πŸ₯€ Five animated dice and a shaking dice cup
  • πŸ”’ Hold-and-reroll gameplay
  • πŸ“ˆ Increasing target scores
  • ✏️ Collectible Writing Tools with unique abilities
  • πŸ”— Build-defining combinations and synergies
  • πŸͺ™ Coins, shops, upgrades, and rewards
  • 🧠 Multiple scoring strategies
  • πŸ’₯ Massive multipliers and satisfying score effects
  • πŸ“± Mobile-friendly controls
  • πŸ’Ύ Local save support
  • πŸ”„ Highly replayable runs
  • πŸ” Secrets, surprises, and unusual interactions

πŸ† Can You Create the Perfect Roll?

Play safely and construct a reliable scoring engine...

Or gamble everything on one enormous combination.

Every decision matters.

Every tool changes your strategy.

Every shake of the cup could save your run—or end it.

🎲 How far can you make it? 🎲


🚧 Development Notice

Roll & Write is currently in development. Features, balancing, visuals, sounds, and content may change as new versions are released.

Feedback, suggestions, and bug reports are appreciated!

Created using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Roll & Write is an independent Yahtzee-inspired game and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the owners of Yahtzee or Balatro.

Published 10 hours ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
AuthorNothatcher
GenreStrategy
TagsDice, Roguelike
AI DisclosureAI Assisted, Code

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