An old favourite, this ever popular bar game helps with mental arithmetic too!
4.19·92 reviews·10,000+ downloads
About Shut The Box
Shut The Box is a casual app developed by Andrew Sambrook.
How many times has Shut The Box been downloaded?
Shut The Box has been downloaded 45 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 21 times.
What is the rating of Shut The Box?
Shut The Box is rated 4.19 out of 5 stars, based on 92 ratings.
Is Shut The Box free?
Shut The Box is free to download. The APK download size is 4.65 MB. The latest version available is 4. The last update was on July 1, 2019.
What are the requirements for Shut The Box?
Shut The Box requires Android 4.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play May 2018.
Description
Overview ======== This ever popular game is a great way to help with mathematics too! An old pub favourite, Shut the Box traditionally uses two dice and a wooden playing board with the numbers 1 - 9 on hinges so that each may be flipped down. A turn involves repeatedly rolling the dice and flipping down a number or numbers each roll. The turn ends when no remaining numbers can be flipped at which point the score is calculated. The overriding goal is to flip down all the numbers or Shut The Box thereby achieving the best possible score of zero.
Please email any suggestions, requests for features or bug reports to shutthebox@sambrook.net and we'll do our best to incorporate or fix them!
How to Play =========== The game starts with the dice showing "Roll Dice", touch the dice to roll them and add up the dots facing up on the dice. Choose any combination of numbers that makes up the dice total and touch the number markers to flip them down accordingly.
For example, if you roll a 5 and a 6 on your first roll you would have a total of 11 and may therefore flip down the number markers for: 9 and 2; 8 and 3; 7 and 4; 5 and 6; 8, 2 and 1; 7, 3 and 1; 6, 4 and 1; 6, 3 and 2.
If you accidentally flip down the wrong number simply touch it again during this turn to flip it back up.
Continue to roll the dice and flip number markers down until you either roll a dice total that has no combination of number markers remaining or you have flipped down every number marker and have successfully "Shut The Box"!
Scoring ======= Digital scoring uses the literal value of the numbers remaining whereas traditional scoring adds together the individual numbers remaining. For example, if 3, 6 and 7 remain your digital score is 367 (three hundred and sixty-seven) whereas your traditional score is 16 (sixteen), the sum of 3+6+7. Of course, shutting the box gives you a score of 0 (zero).
Settings ======== Always use two dice Usually, when the sum of values left unused equals 6 or less only one dice is thrown. Activate this setting to ignore this rule and continue to use two dice throughout the game.
Apply Filter Activate this setting to only allow number markers that can actually be used to be flipped, great for when you're feeling worn out! With the filter deactivated you may flip any number marker left unused meaning you have to work that little bit harder!
Use Digital Scoring Digital scoring uses the literal value of the numbers remaining whereas traditional scoring adds together the individual numbers remaining. For example, if 3, 6 and 7 remain your digital score is 367 (three hundred and sixty-seven) whereas your traditional score is 16 (sixteen), the sum of 3+6+7.
Roll Dice Automatically Activate this setting to automatically roll the dice after the initial roll. With this feature disabled you have to press the dice each time to roll them.
Premium Version =============== The free version contains non-intrusive adverts. Purchase the premium version to remove the adverts. The premium version is also a slightly smaller file size due to the removal of adverts if space is at a premium for you.
Copyright Andrew Sambrook 2019 shutthebox@sambrook.net
Recent changes: Updated to conform with Google Play Android Pie policies and remove possibly sensitive adverts.
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Just a real fun game, it's not that easy to shut that box., but when you do, it's a good feeling
★★★★★Tila Sole· Nov 26, 2021
Lovely version & free to boot. Or buy to remove ads. But ads not intrusive. Would be nice to have different aesthetics, like different colored felt, different lacquers, different boards, etc. But this is neat & straight to the point & does the job extremely well. However, I have a question. Is it normal to end your run with the last roll that could be close another tile, but does not? For instance the tiles 2,4,7,8 are up and your final roll is 3,2. Couldn't you close the 2 or 4 for final scoring?
★★★★★Stacey Mckinney· Apr 24, 2024
It is a quick, easy game to play when you need to kill a little time.
★☆☆☆☆joan sherwin· Sep 6, 2021
U.I. Is broken - Flaps sometimes stick up or down or carry over tbeir state into the next game. Other times the flaps don't respond to clicks. UI is boring there is no animations no sound effects the dice don't even roll. I don't understand what is the purpose of the History ? Overall the game is dull and boring, sorry for sounding so harsh about it, but it really needs a lot of improvement. KEEP TRYING though, you will get there. *No acknowledgement. Well if u can't be bothered. Uninstalling*
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