P O S T A L   P E R U D O   --   R U L E S

1. This is a postal game for probably five to seven players (possibly four or
   eight) who, I assume, know the rules of Perudo (aka Liar's Dice). Players
   should submit pseudonyms before play and not attempt to make contact with
   any other players in the game, though the identity of every player will be
   revealed at the end of the game. Any player not submitting a pseudonym
   will be allocated one, which will be the name of a game show host.
2. An order of play involving all the players in a random sequence is set for
   all the rounds within each game and strictly adhered to each turn.
3. The game consists of five rounds for each player involved in the game. One
   fifth of these rounds will see each player rolling one die, one fifth have
   each player with two dice, one fifth with three, likewise four and five.
4. Each round with the same number of dice is started by a different player.
   All the (5*number-of-players) rounds happen simultaneously, with one call
   in each every turn of the game; thus every turn each player is next to make
   a call in one of the games with one die each, in one of the games with two
   dice each and so on, though the rounds may end at different points.
5. Each player will be sent their own set of dice rolls for each round at the
   start of the game, which will be fixed for the rest of the game and cannot
   be changed. (Variant: players may elect to show that they have a certain
   number of dice of the type called and reroll all the others, though this
   may make the game rather longer and less suitable for postal play?)
6. In turn each player may either make a valid bid higher than all other bids
   made or challenge the last bid, for each round.
7. The dice are marked with 2,3,4,5,6,A. The Ace (or one) ranks highest, as in
   cards. The Aces are wild and can represent any number from 2 to 6, as in
   normal Perudo. Bids of Aces count double in value, as usual.
   Thus a bid of 12 "5"s is outranked by one of 12 "6"s, which is outranked by
   one of 6 Aces, which is outranked by a bid of 13 "2"s, and so on.
8. A player who NMRs on turn one will be ejected from the game; a player who
   NMRs on a later turn will make a bid of a number selected at random. The
   number bid will be more than the minimum necessary. If the last bid was
   9 "6"s, a NMRing player would bid one of 11 "2"s, 11 "3"s and so on up to
   11 "6"s  or 6 Aces - chosen at random with equal probability. If the last
   bid was 9 "4"s, possible bids are 11 "2"s, "3"s or "4"s, 10 "5"s or "6"s
   or 6 Aces. If the last bid was 5 Aces, the next bid for a NMRer would be
   one of 7 Aces or 12 of one of "2"s to "6"s. Be warned, any strange-looking
   bid may have come from an NMRing player, who will bid at random - or it
   could have come from a non-NMRing player trying to be particularly tricky.
   NMRing players will be awarded one red N per offence, but their NMR will
   not be shown explicitly at the time in the results.
9. If it is your turn to bid on a round and you believe the last player's
   call was too high, you may challenge it; then all the dice held by all
   the players in that round are revealed, and the number of the type bid
   including wild Aces are counted up. The round ends at once and is scored
   as follows:
      If the bid was good and the challenge was bad (if there are at least
      as many of the type bid as the value of the bid) then the bidder earns
      a gold star and the challenger earns a black mark for that round.
      If the bid was bad and the challenge was good (if there were fewer of
      the type bid as the value of the bid) then the bidder earns a black
      mark and the challenger earns a gold star for that round.
   NMRing players will never challenge, but an obviously wild bid may have
   come from an NMRing player, which may give the following player a very
   easy chance to earn gold stars and give the NMRer black marks.
10 After all the rounds have been completed (I would expect some rounds of
   the game to be completed in two or three turns, the majority to take more
   like six to eight turns, and the last few tail-enders to take twelve or
   more) the number of black marks, gold stars and red Ns accrued by each
   player will be totalled up. The winner is the player who has earned fewest
   black marks. Ties will be split in the favour of the player with the most
   gold stars. Ties there will be split in the favour of the player with the
   fewest red Ns. If all three categories are tied, no further split occurs.
11 The decision of the GM is final. All rules are subject to the normal GIT
   house rules. Or would be, at least, if I had some. Use yer common sense!