MicroLink Push Your Luck

The Good
Options, options, options! Play with the keyboard or mouse. (Or let one player have each to avoid changing chairs every round.) Play with pips or numbers on the dice, choose which prompts appear, turn the sound off, use fast mode to skip the dice-rolling animation, view online help at almost any point. You get the picture.

Speaking of the picture, the graphics may look simple, but they're certainly more colorful than CGA. They do fine for a game of this kind. And there's an option for monochrome monitors, too.

The best feature of all is that it tracks your top ten scores. If you don't have someone to play against, see if you can beat your own high score. (I've been tracking my scores for eight years now.) And it's free unless you feel like making a donation! (There is no "registered" version. You get a fully playable game.)

The Bad
Hindsight is 20/20, and unfortunately, while this game plays fine on faster 286s, the animations and sound are too fast for Pentiums. The game plays just fine, things just go by almost as fast as in fast mode all the time. (Unless you use a program like Moslo.) I find it best to just turn the sound off in these cases.

The Bottom Line
This is an addictive dice game. Playing on the computer means you don't have to do the math yourself or chase errant dice. You'll learn the agony of watching your score go into the hundreds on a single round, only to suddenly roll all blockers and watch it go back to zero. Argh! Obviously, you'll have to try again. 8)