How you play
Crickee Rules
A 20-over match, six dice per over, 10 wickets in hand.
🎲 The six dice
Every over you roll six dice — one per ball. Each face means:
- 1Dot ball
- 2Dot or Single
- 3Single
- 4Two runs
- 5Four runs
- 6Wicket chance
🧤 Wicket chances
A six is not an automatic wicket. It is a wicket chance: one extra die is rolled. A 5 or 6 (after any trait or event modifiers) is a wicket; 1–4 is a dot ball.
Tail-end batters (number 8 and below) dig in once per over, taking −1 off one chance roll.
🏏 The over
The batting side may attack an over for more boundaries at the cost of a higher wicket risk. The fielding captain picks the bowler: maximum four overs each and never two overs in a row.
Strike rotates ball by ball on odd runs, and at the end of each over.
🧑⚖️ Event cards
At the end of every over the umpire draws one card from the event deck. The card is applied to the six dice you just rolled — before any wicket chance is settled — so it can rewrite the over you thought you had.
What a card can do:
- Convert a ball — turn a dot into a four, or a single into a wicket chance.
- Add or remove runs — bonus runs go to the batter on strike.
- Add or drop a ball — a free hit, or rain cutting the over short.
- Change a wicket chance — cancel it, or shift the confirming roll by ±1.
- Gamble — reroll a ball, or flip a coin between two outcomes.
After the card resolves, the match centre shows a What it changed list plus three before → after figures: runs off the bat, wicket chances live, and balls in the over. A struck-through number is the over as it stood before the card. Wicket chances are rolled after that, so the final over total can still move.
Example. You roll 1 · 4 · 0 · 2 · 0 · wicket chance — 7 runs on the bat with one chance live. The umpire turns over Free Hit, which converts the chance into a four. Runs off the bat go 7 → 11 and wicket chances go 1 → 0, so the over finishes at 11 with no wicket.
Categories: Core (common swings), Tactical (captaincy calls), Special (rare, match-turning) and Flavour (colour, small effects).
⭐ Player traits
Squads are dealt from the player pool; many players carry a trait.
Batting
- · Power Hitter — converts one Two into a Four per innings
- · Anchor — cancels one wicket chance per over
- · Finisher — +1 run on boundaries in overs 17–20
- · Momentum — after scoring 4+, next ball +1 run
- · Wrist Technician — +1 run per ball against spin
Bowling
- · Swing Specialist — +1 to wicket-chance rolls in overs 1–6
- · Death Specialist — +1 to wicket-chance rolls in overs 17–20
- · Mystery Spinner — converts one dot into a wicket chance per over
- · Heavy Seamer — boundary → single, and +1 to one wicket-chance roll
- · Yorker Expert — rerolls one wicket-chance die per over
- · Aggressive Quick — converts one single into a wicket chance
- · Economy Master — converts one two into a dot
- · Spin Controller — −1 to one wicket-chance roll per over
🏆 Winning
The side batting second must pass the first innings total. All out or 20 overs ends the innings. If the scores finish level, a Super Over settles it.