Glückshaus

Glückshaus, German for house of fortune, is a gambling dice game for multiple players, played with two dice on a numbered board divided into rooms. The modern board design was created in the 1960s by Erwin Glonnegger, who combined older German dice games with a staking layout borrowed from card games to give the game its current name and shape. Fields on the board are numbered from two through twelve, usually omitting four, and players stake coins on results as the dice are rolled. Rolling snake eyes lets a player collect every coin on the board except those staked on the seven; rolling a twelve wins every coin on the board outright; rolling a seven requires the roller to add a coin to a growing jackpot instead of taking anything; and the remaining numbers, three, five, six, eight, nine, ten and eleven, let a player either place a coin on that room or collect the coins already staked there. Play continues, room by room, until one player has collected every coin on the board. The game is documented across German, Russian and Swedish editions, reflecting its wide circulation in Europe.