Lunch Money Button Men

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by Bill Brierton

They are six cute little girls and they like to beat people up. Lunch Money is the hit Atlas Games card game of playground combat (and winner of an Origins Award). Button Men is the hit Cheapass Games combat game of buttons and dice (created by James Ernest, himself an Origins Award winner). Put them together and you have a new series of Button Men, produced and sold under license by Atlas Games, using the distinctive graphics of Lunch Money!

Button Men is a quick-playing dice game in which players take turns capturing each others' dice. But it's not as easy as you might think. In this elegant fight system, small dice mean speed, and large dice mean strength. The strategies revolve around how you play your numbers, which risks you take, and which dice you choose to round out your character.

The six new Lunch Money Button Men characters introduce two new features: the "Y" wild dice (which allows a player to choose any die type from 1 to 20), and the unique "trip die" which enables a player to re-roll an opponent's die. The Lunch Money buttons, designed by James Ernest, are fully compatible with the original Button Men set, as well as with other sets published by Cheapass Games and future licensees.

Each package comes with one rule book and two pin-back buttons. Players need to supply their own dice.

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