by ras2124
There is already a no player elimination, points only variant. It's called Yahtzee.It sounds like a joke, but the problem is, you need incentive to attack other players. However, if you award points for a kill, you are incentivize ganging up on players and give too much advantage for getting lucky and killing. You could penalize death, but really that creates a new problem where there isn't enough incentive to actually kill a player. Because it takes effort and turns, the only time everyone would realistically work to kill someone is when they are far ahead. That might sound good in theory, but if everyone is constantly trying to kill off a runaway leader, the game will drag on forever. In the end you are probably better off mostly focusing on a purely points-based strategy. At that point you are pretty much back to points-race yahtzee, but with monster standees.