sci-fi dice game SETI
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