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It really has nothing to do with actual SETI but it started off with "craping out" on a roll of 20 which was a SETI score.

For your consideration:

SETI 005.42
the nerd craps/yahtzee

Roll three dice: an 8, 12, and 20 sider until you roll a sum of 20. Geek out and brag about what you rolled up till then.

Sums- all 1st hand equivalents listed in {}

3: Hubbard {Raelian}
4: Cruise or Travolta (rollers choice) {Anderton or Terl}
5: Straczynski (Babylon 5 gate opens) {Sinclair}
19: Sagan {Hubble}
20: SETI (rolls end. alien life found/not found) {Abduction}
21: Strieber {Art Bell}
25: Buck {Buster}
30: Carousel (roller must say "renew!") {York}
39: Maud'dib {Valentine}
40: Dobbs {Xist}
42: Adams (only with Blockbuster die*)
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Numbers-

Any triple number other than 888, 777, 666 or 111: Hoax {Thetan}
Any three in sequence: Roddenbury (other than 1,2,3 and 3,4,5 and 6,7,8) {Serling}
1,2,3: Shatner (Star Trek gate opens) {Hunter}
1,4,9: Monolith {Kubrick + BB dice}
1, 7, 10: Enterprise (turning the "10" upside down) Star Trek gate opens {Archer}
2,1,12: Syrinx {Rand}
3,4,5: Larson (enter Galactica Gateway) {Hatch}
4,5,1: Bradbury {Montag}
6,6,6: Burton {Bey}
7,7,7: Weather Balloon {Walton}
8,8,8: Crop Circles {Cattle Mutilation}
10,10,1: Matrix {Pantaliano}
11, 1, 1: Conspiracy Theory {Roswell}
11,11,1: Korben Dallas (gain Blockbuster die*) {Cole-TG}
11,3,8 or 1,13,8: THX (Star Wars gate opens) {LUH}
12, 3, 4: Cosmos {Herbert}
13,10,3: Subgenius (turning the 10 upside down) {Connie}
17,2,9: Bender {Flexo}

Dates-

19,5,1: Klaatu {Wise}
19,5,6: Nielsen {McCarthy}
19,6,6: Welch {Pleasence}
19,6,7: Knotts {McGoohan}
19,6,8: Bowman {Floyd}
19,6,9: Buzz Aldrin or Koenig (if roller wants the 6 inverted) {Armstrong or Moon Base Alpha}
19,7,1: Droogy {Neville}
19,7,2: Valley Forge {Dern}
19,7,3: Soylent Green {Sleeper}
19,7,4: Zardoz {no score}
19,7,5: Caan {Vic}
19,7,6: Bowie {Brynner}
19,7,7: Lucas (Star Wars gate opens) {Williams}
19,7,8: Galactica (Galactica gate opens) {Sutherland}
19,7,9: Nostromo {Drax}
19,8,1: Plissken (24 rolls to score anything or auto-SETI out) {Humungus}
19,8,2: Deckard {Flynn}
19,8,3: Ackbar (enter Star Wars gate)Blockbuster die* {Woods}
19,8,4: Orwell {Lithgow}
19,8,5: McFly (Time Gate opens) {Stoltz}
19,8,6: Sulaco {Goldblum}
19,8,7: Predator {Killian}
19,8,8: Akira {Piper}
19,8,9: Bud {Vigo}
19,9,1: Skynet {Patrick}
19,9,2: Fincher {Fahey}
19,9,3: Spartan {Beldar}
19,9,4: Walker (Time gate opens) {O'Niel}
19,9,5: Kusanagi {Costner -no BB dice for duration of roll}
19,9,7: Jovovich {Diz}
19,9,8: Aronofski {Oldman + reeboot **}
20, 1, 2 or 2, 10, 2: Mayan {Quetzacoatl} RETIRED SCORE
20,7,1: Bebop {Laughing Bull}
2,19,9: Yamato {Argo}
2,5,17: Firefly {Serenity}
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Combos-

Two Sagans: Billions of Sagans
Three Sagans: Hawking
Two Hawkings: Drake
Three Hawkings: Lowell
Three Striebers (21): George Nory
Two Nory's: Hoaglund
Three Nory's: Space Ghost
Hawking(3 Sagans)+Nory(3 Striebers): Michio Kaku
Drake(2 Hawkings)+ Hauglund(2 Norys): Von Daniken
Lowell(3 Hawkings)+Space Ghost(3 Norys): Tweel
A Strieber/Roddenbury combo (6,7,8): Duchoveney (immune to Abduction on next hand)
Hoax/Strieber combo (7,7,7): Weather Balloon
Consecutive Streiber and Carousel rolls (21,30): Black Hole (overwrites the two scores)
Two Black Holes: Cygnus
Three Roddenburys: Nimoy (enter StarTrek Gate)
Four Roddenburys: Doohan (Time gate opens) roller must say "There be whales,captain"
Serling + Roddenbury: Taylor (Time Gate opens)
Three Bucks: Ardala
Two Ardalas: Wilma
Three Ardalas: Dr Huer
Four Ardalas: Hawk
4th Carousel (30): Retrogram
5th Carousel: Logan
6th Carousel: Jessica
7th Carousel: Francis
8th Carousel: Box (roller must drone "There is no sanctuary")
Carousel + 10,5,6 consecutively: Runner
Logan or York + 4,8,3: Farrah (sum of 3 scores a Keitel for rest of game)
Two consecutive and identical scores: Dr Who (Time Gate Opens)
Three consecutive identical scores: Tardis (Time Dilation begins)
Four of same in a row: Rassillon
2nd Dr Who: Hartnell
3rd Dr Who: Troughton
4th Dr Who: Pertwee
5th Dr Who: Baker
6th Dr Who: Davison
7th Dr Who: Colin (Baker)
8th Dr Who: McCoy
9th Dr Who: McGann
10th Dr Who: Eccleston
11th Dr Who: Tennant
12th Dr Who: Smith
1st hand score immediately followed by same roll: Gil Gerard
Any three scores in consecutive rolls: Verhoeven
Any four scores in consecutive order: David Warner
Any five scores in a row: Hal
Any six scores in a row: Gojira
Any seven scores in a row: Asimov
Any 8 scores in a row: Flash
Any 9 in a row: Metropolis
Any 10 in a row: Burroughs
Any 11 in a row: Melies
Verhoeven and SETI out: Cuato (a successful Gellar on this doesn't score
the Cuato)
Warner and SETI: Sark (a successful Gellar on this doesn't score
this)
Hal/SETI: Poole
Gojira/SETI: Mecha Godzilla
Asimov/SETI: Calvin
Flash/SETI: Ming

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Metropolis/SETI: Rotwang
Burroughs/SETI: Xodar
Melies/SETI: Selenite
Third hand Verhoeven: Ironside
Two Verhoevens: Ridley Scott
3rd Verhoven: Cameron (BB dice)
4th Verhoven: Spielberg (BB dice)
5th Verhoven: Abrams (roller's choice of Star Trek or Star Wars gate)
Verhoeven with a McFly(1985) in it: Zemeckis (earns a d6 Blockbuster die*)
Cuato/Ironside combo: Rasczak
Two Hoaxes: Capricorn
Three Hoaxes: Welles
Any two of: Soylent Green (1973) or Galactica (1978) or Welch(1966) or Pleasence(1966): Brolin
Any two of: Sulaco (1986) or Orwell (1984) or Bud (1989): Biehn
Hubbard and Dobbs: Zaphod
Hubbard (sum3), Travolta (sum4), and Cruise (sum4): Xenu
Two Chekovs: Tomalak (see gates)
Two Kors: Colicos (see gates)
Two Deep Roys: Snit (see gates)
Two Sillas: Twiki (see gates)
All five of Star Wars, Star Trek, Galactica, Time and Babylon 5: Dr. Daniel Jackson
Dr Daniel Jackson + 1969: Hammond
Chekov + Keeler: Enik
Cavil + Archer: Bakula
Doohan + Haig: Star Command

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First roll-

8,9,10: Sorbo (Time gate opens)
2nd Abduction in an evening (regardless of player): Foster
3rd Abduction (regardless of player): Scully
4th Abduction (regardless of player): Arthur Dent
5th Abduction: Brian (roller must say "You lucky bastard")
6th Abduction: Dr Smith (B5 gate inaccessible for night)
Akbar (19,8,3): Woods
Akira (19,8,8): Piper
Aronofski (1998): Oldman + reeboot Dice**
Bebop (20,7,1): Laughing Bull
Bender (17,2,9): Flexo
Bowie (19,7,6): Torn
Bowman (19,6,8): Floyd
Bradbury (4,5,1): Montag
Buck (25): Buster
Bud (19,8,9): Vigo
Burton (6,6,6): Bey (game ends and roller is done for the night)
Buzz Aldrin (19,6,9): Armstrong
Carousel (sum 30): York
Conspiracy Theory (11,1,1): Roswell
Corbin Dallas (11,11,1): Cole (Time Gate opens)
Cosmos (12,3,4): Herbert
Crop Circles (8,8,8): Cattle Mutilation
Cruise (sum 4): Anderton
Deckard (19,8,2): Flynn
Dobbs (sum 40): Xist
Droogy (19,7,1): Neville
Duchoveny (6,7,8): Balok (enter Star Trek Gate)
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Enterprise (1,7, 01): Archer
Fincher (19,9,2): Fahey
Firefly (2,5,17): Serenity
Galactica (19,7,8):Sutherland
Hoax (triples): Thetan
Hubbard (1,1,1): Raelian
Jovovich (1997): Diz
Koenig (19,9,9): Moon Base Alpha
Kusanagi (19,9,5): Costner (Blockbuster dice disabled for duration of roll)
Larson (3,4,5): Hatch (Galactica gate opens)
Lucas (19,7,7): Williams (Star Wars gate opens) (gain BB die*)
Matrix (10,10,1): Pantaliano
Maud'dib (sum 39): Valentine
Mayan (20,1,2): Quetzacoatl
McFly (19,8,5): Stoltz (Time gate opens)
Monolith (1,4,9): Kubrick (gain a Blockbuster dice)
Nielsen (19,5,6): Knotts or McArthy roller's choice
Nostromo (19,7,9):Drax
Orwell (19,8,4): Big Brother
Pliskin (19,8,1): Humongus
Predator (19,8,7): Killian
Roddenbury (straight): Serling (subsequent Roddenbury scores Taylor and opens Time Gate)
Rollerball (19,7,5): Houseman
Sagan (sum 19): Hubble
SETI (sum 20): Abduction
Shatner (1,2,3): Hunter (Star Trek gate opens)
Skynet (19,9,1): Patrick
Soylent Green (19,7,3): Brynner
Spartan (19,9,3): Beldar
Straczynski (sum 5): Sinclair
Strieber (sum 21): Art Bell
Subgenius (13,01,3): Connie
Sulaco (19,8,6): Goldblum
Syrinx (2,1,12): Rand
THX (11,3,8): LUH (Star Wars gate opens)
Travolta (sum 4): Terl
Valley Forge (19,7,2): Dern
Walker (19,9,4): O'Niel
Weather Balloon (7,7,7): Walton
Yamato (2,19,9): Argo
Zardoz (19,7,4): no score
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Special-

Call a SETI roll just before you roll: Uri Geller (only one attempt may be made and only after something has been scored) game does not end and earns a Sheen and Nostradomus

attempt *** (see Prophecy Gates)
Call a SETI roll after a successful Geller two rolls before it happens: Nostradamus ***
Post Nostradamus, 3 roll pre-SETI call: Nabiru *** -see Prophecy Gates
Power outage during game: Riddick
Non sci-fi fan questions SETI game: Lorne Green or a Cpt EO (roller's choice depending on the situation)
Sci-fi fan questions SETI game: Dr Theopolis
Earthquake during game: Mynok
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A 1st roll score without anything else: Hamill
2nd Hamill in an evening (regardless of player): Lee Majors
SETI out with no scores other than Carousels: Ustinov
Third identical first-hand roll in a day regardless of player: Raimi (earns a Blockbuster d6)
Successful Gellar with use of Blockbuster dice: Reese
Bounce 3 Gellars: Oracle
Bounce 4 Gellars: Seldon
Bounce 5 Gellars: Mondoshawans
Bounce 6 Gellars: Bene Gesserit
Bounce 7 Gellars: Red Ball
Bounce a Gellar off an Adams(42): Heart of Gold
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GATEWAY ROLLS.
These groups of scores are only available after a prerequisite roll is made.

BABYLON 5 GATE
After any sum of 5: Babylon 5 gateway opens
1,1,1: The One
sum of 4: Zathras
9,5,7: Walkers
1st Roddenbury: Talia
2nd Roddenbury: Delenn
3rd Roddenbury: Londo
4th Roddenbury: Garibaldi (next SETI within B5 gate scores Sheridan. Game doesn't end)
5th Roddenbury: Marcus (roller experiences "cancellation," game ends, and
Roddenburys uncountable for rest of the night.)
2nd Straczynski: Galen
3rd Straczynski: G'Kar
4th Straczynski: Morden
5th Straczynski: Lochley
Logan 5: Arthur
Star Wars: Downes (exit Babylon 5 gate)
Trek gate: Chekov (exit B5 gate)
Galactica gate: Macabee
Time gate: Valen (exit gate)

GALACTICA GATE
Galactica (1978) or Larson (3,4,5) or Hatch (3,4,5) opens Galactica gateway:
1,1,1:Cavil
2,2,2:Conoy 3,3,3:Biers 4,4,4:Simon
5,5,5:Doral 6,6,6:Caprica 8,8,8:Valerii
7,7,7: no score at all (not even Weather Balloon)
sum of 13: Earth (exit Galactica gateway)
11,1,1: Baltar (does not score an Earth nor gate out)
sum of 33: Olympic
2nd Larson and/or Galactica: Boxy
3rd Larson and/or Galactica: Olmos (gain reboot **)
4th Larson and/or Galactica: Graystone
Star Wars gate: Silla (exit Galactica gate)
Star Trek gate: Kor (exit G gate)
Babylon 5 gate: Macabee (exit)
Time gate: McDonnell (exit)

STAR TREK GATE
After a Shatner 1,2,3 or an Enterprise 1,7,10, Balok (1st hand 6,7,8)Star Trek ga

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STAR TREK GATE
After a Shatner 1,2,3 or an Enterprise 1,7,10, Balok (1st hand 6,7,8)Star Trek gateway opens
sum of 4: Alley
sum of 9: Quark (game ends if roller leaves gate)
sum of 31: Section 31 or maybe Sloan or Bashir
1,1,1:April 2,2,2:Pike 3,3,3:Kirk 4,4,4:Decker
5,5,5:Harriman 6,6,6:Garrett 7,7,7:Picard 8,8,8:Riker
3,5,9: Borg (game ends and lose all scores other than Borg)
14,1,4: Transporter Accident/Sagan combo: Sonak
17,1,7: Transporter Accident/Buck combo: Anthony James
17,6,4: Defiant
18,6,4: Khan
19,7,9: V'ger
19,8,2: Judson
19,8,4: Larroquette
19,8,6: Gracie
19,8,9: Sybok (Trek gate closed for night and roller cannot score Shatners)
19,9,1: Valeris
19,9,4: Soran
19,9,6: Cochrane
19,9,8: Ba'Ku
20,1,3: Weller (ungreased backdoor)
^Both lower numbers of a roll appear in higher number: Transporter Accident
(example: 13,1,3 or 16,1,6)
Shatner: Coburn
2nd Coburn: Jack Lord
3rd Coburn: Cawley or Mignona (roller's choice)
4th Coburn: Pines
7th Roddenberry: roller experiences "cancellation," game ends, and
Roddenburys uncountable for rest of the night.
Warner: Meyer (opens Time Gateway) +Mini Side Roll: roll the dice ten times without
counting the scores. Any person rolled cannot be scored for the rest of the evening and roller scores a "Ripper"
Ripper a Shatner: Nexus
Gellar: Kahless
Star Wars: Deep Roy (exit Trek gate)
Galactica gate: Kor (exit Trek gate)
Babylon 5 gate: Chekov (exit Star Trek gate)
Time gate: Keeler (exit)

STAR WARS GATE
After either THX (1138), LUH (1st THX), Lucas (1977), Ackbar (1983) or Williams (1st Lucas), Star Wars gateway:
1,1,1: Sith
1,2,3: Travesty (gain BB die*)
2,18,7: Leia
4,5,6: Trilogy (gain BB die*)
6,6,6: Palpatine
sum of 12: Kessel
sum of 40: Jedi
Akbar: Yub Nub
Hoaxes (triples) are Clones instead
THX: Declan
2nd Lucas: Kershner
3rd Lucas: Tartakovsky
Bounce a Gellar: Chewbaca
Star Trek gate: Deep Roy (exit Star Wa

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Star Trek gate: Deep Roy (exit Star Wars gate)
Babylon 5 gate: Robin Atkin Downes (exit SW gate)
Galactica gate: Silla (exit SW gate)
Time gate: Cushing (exit)

TIME GATE
Time Gate:(opens from McFly, Taylor, Cole, Meyer, Doohan, Walker, Dr Who)
3rd Buck: Roller's choice of Curtis or Graves
6th Buck: Coleman
9th Buck: Walston
28: Darko (exit Time gate)
30: Abe
5,2,8: Bing
19,5,5: Doc Brown
19,6,8: Cornelius
19,7,1: Zera
19,7,2: Caesar
19,7,3: Aldo
19.9.9: Fry (turn a 6 upside down)
20,1,2: Rain Maker
20,2,9: Schwarzeneger
McFly/Doc Brown consecutive: Campbell
Stoltz/Doc Brown consecutive: Lloyd
Warner: Gilliam (gain Blockbuster die*)
Enterprise,Burton,Larson,Galactica,Gojira,or Buck: gain Reboot ** (score unchanged)
~Additional Time Gate: Time Dilation begins. Roller chooses only two dice to reroll
per throw. Same dice pair cannot be chosen consecutively. Third Time Gate entry:
reroll only one die at a time. Fourth Time Gate entry: game ends, frozen in time.
Darko, Gracie, triple numbers (Hoax, etc), Abe and Buck end Time Dilation.
~7,6,7: Langoliers (in dilation only) game ends and player cannot roll for rest of night.
~19,4,3: Eldridge (in dilation only)
~19,8,2: Mork (in dilation only)
Babylon 5 gate: Valen (exit)
Galactica gate: McDonnell (exit)
Star Trek gate: Keeler (exit)
Star Wars gate: Cushing (exit)

-GATE-TO-GATE-

Babylon 5 gate to/from a Trek gate: Chekov (x2 Tomalak)
Babylon 5 gate to/from Star Wars gate: Downes (Robin Atkin)
Babylon 5 gate to/from Galactica gate: Macabee (x2 Howard)
Galactica gate to/from Trek gate: Kor (x2 Colicos)
Galactica gate to/from Star Wars gate: Silla (x2 Twiki)
Star Wars gate to/from Trek gate: Deep Roy (x2 Haig)
Star Wars gate to/from Time gate: Cushing
Galactica gate to/from Time gate: McDonnell
Babylon 5 gate to/from Time gate: Valen
Star Trek gate to/from Time gate: Keeler (x2 Atoz)
All four of Star Wars, Star Trek, Galactica, and Bab

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All four of Star Wars, Star Trek, Galactica, and Babylon 5: Satellite of Love
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PROPHECY GATES- ***

After a successful Geller:
Call a SETI roll two rolls before it happens: Nostradamus
Earn one Sheen attempt: call your own Abduction

After a successful Nostradamus:
Call a SETI roll three rolls before it happens: Nabiru
Earn one Kanamit attempt: call a Geller on someone else's roll

After a successful Nabiru:
call an Abduction on someone else's roll: Dreyfus
earn a Gellar attempt

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Uncountable-

You rolled the wrong dice: Binks (uncountable)
realize you just picked up a valid score: Neuralizer
SETI out with only a Neuralizer: Harlan
3 cocked dice: King Ghidorah (monster zero)
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NOTES

*Blockbuster die: a six sider die that can be used after a roll and added to the sum of the roll. Rolls that award a Blockbuster die include Williams, Gilliam, Korben, Raimi, Zemeckis, Cameron, Akbar, Trilogy, Travesty, Kubrik . Blockbuster dice may be used to escape a SETI.

**Reboot: Immune to next SETI roll

***Bounce roll: If a score other than SETI is rolled when attempting a Geller, Nostradamus, Nabiru, Sheen, Cerebro, or Dreyfus then the roller does not lose the option and can

make another guess within the normal parameters in the future.

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