Week 13 Story Planning: What're the rules to the famous "Dice Game"

The gambling match with dice is about to start and it will be interesting to see how different it is in a film rather than in text. The text didn't really explain how the game was played but now I will get to see how the game is actually played.

All of the sons of Dhritarashtra enter the room where the dice game will be held. It seems like a very formal occasion for all to be entertained by. Yudhishthira is getting in over his head and gambling everything he owns. He knows this man is a known cheater but he still plays. Why would his brothers sit by and let him do all this gambling?

After the dice game it is still unsure how this game is played and what the rules are.

(A dice with odd symbols.

Source: Web)

The above are some of the notes I took while watching a film the professor suggested me to watch about the Mahabharata. I'm doing a story planning post because I just do not enough time to write a good story. But for my story next week I want to do something involving the dice game in the Mahabharata. The story I'm thinking of would involve the a few Gods sitting down bored out of their minds and creating the rules for this game. The reason I would like to do this is because in the film version and the book version you never really know what the rules are to the dice game. You just know that Yudhishthira loses everything in seemingly 7 rolls of the a die(is that singular for dice?).