Rules
On your turn:
- Roll 3 dice. The highest is set aside.
- Roll the remaining 2. The highest is set aside.
- Roll the last die.
Sum of the three set-aside dice is your round score. Best total over 5 rounds wins.
History
Going to Boston (also known as Newmarket or Yankee Grab in some traditions) is a 19th-century American parlor and bar-dice game, listed in Hoyle and dice-game compendiums of the period. It has largely faded from popular play - most modern dice-game collections treat it as a historical curiosity.
It’s a pure-luck game: you always keep the highest available die, so there are no real decisions. The bot uses the same algorithm.
A textbook variant - Multiplication Boston - multiplies the first two kept dice and adds the last. Almost nobody plays it.
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