As a thank you for an amazing weekend of camping in Sark, I was thinking what to make for Mich and Si. We talked about Perudo, which seemed to be an obvious choice of game for 8 players.
@Mich and Si here's the rules of Perudo:
http://www.boardgamecapital.com/game_rules/perudo.pdf
Alternatively, I'll just teach you.
The box
The box is milled from walnut, lined with maple, the lid held on with 8 tiny niodymium magnets and the wood is finished with boiled linseed oil:
The optimal amount of dice for 6 players is 5 dice per player, plus a guest and then 3 spare dice = 48 dice. That means a cube of 3x4x4:
CNC carving the initials:
The unfinished box:
Splitting the box, lining with thin maple strips and glueingin the magnets:
Glueing up the box:
Milling down the wood to thin planks:
The original walnut block:
