Swedish Dice Hockey

This is the pen-and-paper hockey of the eighties, as an app. One round per page of the pad, the results rolled with a twelve-sided die that actually rolls across the paper, the league table written below the games. Nothing is decided in secret: every result comes from a roll you watch, and the reading stands next to the die so you can check it yourself. HOW YOU PLAY Every team gets a slip — exactly the one you wrote in the margin back then. The home team rolls, then the away team. Level after regulation means overtime, and if that isn't enough, a shootout. Once the result is in, small green dice roll out and decide who scored, line by line, with assists. A WHOLE CAREER A book is a career: season after season in the same pad. Between seasons the players age, the oldest retire, juniors fill the gaps, some go abroad and teams are promoted and relegated. The archive remembers everything —…