Becoming a good Pyramid player means honing your arithmetic and logic skills. Being able to quickly find the highest multiples will gain you the highest score. This is a must when playing against good human and AI opponents. Here are some strategy tips.
- If your dice total is 9 or
less, find
three valid
tiles that are the same as your dice total (i.e. your dice are 3 and 4,
find three tiles that are a 7)
- If your dice total is 8 or less, find
a run of
three tiles that starts with 1 less than your dice total (i.e. your
dice are 3 and 4, find a 6, 7 and 8)
- If your dice total is 7 or less, find
a tile that
is 2 less, equal, and 2 more than your dice total (i.e. your dice are 3
and 4, find a 5, 7 and 9)
- If your dice total is 6 or less, find
a tile that
is 3 less, equal, and 3 more than your dice total (i.e. your dice are 2
and 4, find a 3, 6 and 9)
- If you cannot find tiles that equal 3
times your
dice total, find tiles that equal twice your dice total since it will
usually get you a higher score than 3 tiles that are a multiple of just
one of your die, or each of them, but not both.
- Always try to score off of
both dice -
two
tiles that are a multiple of the total of both dice may often give a
higher score than three tiles that are only a multiple of one die.
- Try to force your opponents into
capturing lower
value tiles - this will open higher value tiles for your capture.
- Try not to capture a lower value tile
that will unblock a higher value tile for your opponent to capture.
- Locate the highest unblocked
tiles on
the board
before clicking on Start Turn - the turn timer does not start until the
dice are rolled.
- Near the end of the game, skipping
your turn on a
low roll of the dice may actually end up forcing an opponent to skip
their turn on a high roll - or it may backfire.
- Capture tiles so that your
opponent is
the one
forced to skip - especially if there are multiple skips in a game.
- Skipping a turn early in the round for
a low value roll may actually help near the end of the game.
Dice Total Multiples
1
any whole
number from 1 to 27
(highest total of 3 tiles in Pyramid)
2
2, 4, 6,
8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18,
20, 22, 24, 26
3
3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27
4
4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24
5
5, 10, 15, 20, 25
6
6, 12, 18, 24
7
7, 14, 21
8
8, 16, 24
9
9, 18, 27
10
10, 20
11
11, 22
12
12, 24