King of Tokyo without a scorekeeper: you pick the winner, Teamzy keeps the leaderboard
Teamzy picks who starts, you pick the winning monster at the end, and the app keeps the match in the history. Over your game nights, you see which monster really wins most often among friends.
King of Tokyo in 30 seconds
King of Tokyo is a dice game from IELLO where 2 to 6 players each play a giant monster, free-for-all. On your turn you roll six dice up to three times, then you score victory points, heal, gain energy or smash the other monsters. There is no score sheet to keep: everyone tracks their victory points and life points on the two dials of their monster board. A monster wins by reaching 20 victory points, or by being the last monster standing. If all the monsters are knocked out at once, nobody wins.
How a game ends, and what each die gives
During the game, each monster tracks its own points on its board: nothing to add up at the end. The game stops when a monster reaches 20 victory points, or when only one monster is left. In Teamzy there is nothing to enter: you pick the winner, whether the game ended on points or with the last one standing. If all the monsters fall at once, you pick nobody.
What Teamzy keeps from a match
| What counts | Points |
|---|---|
| Reach 20 victory points (alive) | win |
| Be the last monster standing | win |
| All knocked out at once | nobody wins |
What earns victory points, hearts and energy
Here is what each die result gives, and what Tokyo earns you. Victory points take you to 20; life points (the hearts) keep you in the game.
| What happens | What you get |
|---|---|
| Three identical dice showing 1, 2 or 3 | as many victory points as the number (three 1s: 1, three 2s: 2, three 3s: 3), plus 1 for each extra identical die |
| Energy die | 1 energy cube per die, kept to buy cards |
| Heart die, outside Tokyo | 1 life point per heart, up to 10 |
| Heart die, inside Tokyo | nothing: inside Tokyo, dice do not heal |
| Claw die | 1 life point lost per claw for the monsters hit: those outside Tokyo if you are inside, those in Tokyo if you are outside |
| Entering Tokyo | 1 victory point |
| Starting your turn in Tokyo | 2 victory points |
| Power card | bought with energy, its effect depends on the card |
The count of the example
This is the game told below, at the moment Emma reaches 20 victory points. Léa has the most life points, but she is not the winner.
| Lucas | Emma | Hugo | Léa | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dice (triples and extra dice) | 10 | 12 | 9 | 10 |
| Entering Tokyo (1 point each) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Turns started in Tokyo (2 points each) | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Power cards (points they give) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Victory points | 13 | 20 | 11 | 10 |
| Life points left | 6 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
Emma wins by reaching 20 victory points. Lucas finishes on 13, Hugo on 11, Léa on 10. Léa keeps all 10 of her life points, but she never took Tokyo: she is 10 points short.
A game for four, won at 20 victory points
Lucas, Emma, Hugo and Léa play free-for-all, the four of them. Teamzy picks who starts: Hugo. Everyone starts with 10 life points and 0 victory points, and with four players only Tokyo City is used.
- 1Hugo starts. Nobody is in Tokyo: after resolving his dice, he has to enter and gains 1 victory point.
- 2Lucas rolls claws. Hugo loses life points and chooses to leave Tokyo. Lucas enters and gains 1 victory point.
- 3Emma does the same: Lucas leaves Tokyo, Emma enters and gains 1 victory point. Léa stays outside and heals with her heart dice, which monsters in Tokyo cannot do.
- 4Emma holds Tokyo for three of her turns: each time she starts a turn there, 2 more victory points, on top of her triples and a card. She reaches 20 victory points with 3 life points left. The game is over.
Emma wins: she is the first to reach 20 victory points. Léa keeps her 10 life points but never took Tokyo: you can be the healthiest monster at the table and still not win.
In Teamzy, on the match screen, mark Emma as the winner. The match is saved in the history with its winner, and the King of Tokyo leaderboard updates: Emma gets a win, Lucas, Hugo and Léa a match without a win. During the game, the dials on your boards are enough: you have no points to enter.
The questions that come up at the table
Two ways: by reaching 20 victory points, or by being the last monster standing. A monster that loses its last life point is eliminated. In Teamzy, you pick the winning monster on the match screen: the match joins the history and the leaderboard.
The King of Tokyo rules on the IELLO websiteNo. Each monster has a board with two dials, one for its victory points and one for its life points, and that is where the game is tracked. That is why Teamzy has no score sheet for this game: you pick the winner at the end, and the app counts everyone's wins in the leaderboard.
Three identical dice showing 1, 2 or 3 give as many victory points as the number, and each extra identical die gives 1 more victory point. Each energy die gives one energy cube. Each heart die restores 1 life point, up to 10, but only outside Tokyo. Each claw die makes the monsters hit lose 1 life point.
Entering Tokyo earns 1 victory point, and starting your turn there earns 2. In return, your heart dice no longer heal you, and every monster outside Tokyo smashes you when they roll claws. You can only leave Tokyo if you lose life points from claws rolled by another monster. Tokyo Bay only comes into play with 5 or 6 players.
It is eliminated and stops playing. The others carry on. If only one monster is left alive, it wins. If all the monsters are knocked out at once, nobody wins.
Yes: the last monster standing wins, even with very few points. That is why no total tells you on its own who won, and why Teamzy lets you pick the winner instead of working it out from a score.
In Teamzy, nobody wins: you pick no winner and the match is saved without one.
With Teamzy: save every King of Tokyo match with its players and its winner. The game details and the leaderboard show the friends who win the most, with their number of wins and their win rate, and each friend's page traces their matches.
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