Dice Dreams Dice Symbols Explained: Coins, Attack, Steal, Shield and More

In Dice Dreams, every dice roll lands on a symbol, and that symbol decides what happens next. So knowing what the Dice Dreams dice symbols mean is the difference between rolling without thinking and actually planning your dice moves.

Dice Dreams by SuperPlay is a game where the result of the dice is random, and any action you take has no repercussions. So what you can control is your response to each face, when you spend your coins, and how much you have saved up when you’re on a good run.

If you’ve been rolling without knowing what each face does and how to use it, this post explains them all.

What the dice symbols mean at a glance

Each die has a few faces, with each of those faces causing you to do something on your turn. Some pay immediately, others send you to another player’s kingdom and one gives you additional rolls.

To give you a quick rundown of the major faces and their purpose when they appear on the screen.

The most potent version of the effect occurs when all three dice match the same symbol. A partial match will still pay but not nearly as much.

Coins: the face you’ll see most often

The Coin symbol is a simple and straightforward earner. The gold is awarded even on non-matching rolls, but if three matching coin icons are rolled, then it pays out more, and it increases based on the level of the kingdom you are on.

Coins are the things you see repeatedly and thus the ones that quietly finance most of your building. The winnings from each coin roll are small at the beginning, and increase as you progress through kingdoms with greater rewards.

The coin payout can be improved over time by earning stars, increasing the base amount earned, so don’t get stuck in a kingdom for too long.

Jackpot: better than coins, not by much

The Jackpot symbol looks like the biggest prize, but in reality, it is only slightly higher than the base coin payoff. It is just a coin reward and it’s dependent on your current stage.

There is one thing here that people may get wrong. The Jackpot cannot be upgraded or boosted via cards or stars, which means it stays tied to your current stage. Treat it like a decent coin reward and not a big win.

Attack: launching Buddy for maximum damage

The Attack face is the red Buddy icon and is one of the best sources of gold in the game. You select another player’s building, fire Buddy at it, and earn gold depending on what you hit and how clean the hit is.

Most of the value will be in the aiming stage. A meter fills up, and if you stop it in time, landing Buddy on the bullseye mark will provide a double reward bonus.

There are a few things that give an attack a better payoff, and they can be easily remembered once you have made a few of these attacks.

• Aim for the bullseye rather than just tapping quickly, since the double bonus is the whole point
• Target buildings that aren’t already burning, because damaged structures have less left to give
• Launch Buddy manually before the timer runs out, otherwise you lose the bonus
• Upgrade your buildings regularly, as higher village levels raise the gold your attacks bring in

If the person you are attacking has a Shield up, the attack is blocked. No gold is obtained, the bullseye bonus does not apply, and their building remains undamaged.

Shield: the symbol that saves you money

Shields pay out no coins, but they are one of the most useful faces on the die. The shields block attacks on your kingdom, meaning your completed buildings will not take damage from those blocked attacks.

This matters because of repair costs. If another player breaks a structure, you must pay coins to repair it and those coins do nothing to move your kingdom forward. Each time an attack is blocked, those are coins you get to spend on building instead.

You can only carry 3 shields at a time, so any shields past that are wasted. Kingdoms left at zero shields for long stretches get ripped apart.

Free Rolls: the rarest face on the die

When you match three Free Rolls icons, you get ten more rolls that don’t come out of the rolls in your bar. It’s ten free chances at coins, attacks and steals, making it the real jackpot of the game.

The frequency of this face is also significantly lower than the other faces. You will be frustrated if you expect free rolls all the time, because the random number generator does not treat all the symbols equally.

The payout on this symbol can be bigger during free roll events. Those are the times when you can make it through most of a kingdom with a good roll streak.

Wild Card and the Steal effect

The Wild Card is the most flexible symbol in the list of dice meanings as it doesn’t do one fixed thing. It will draw a random effect from the other dice symbols (it can be any of the other effects, plus effects unlocked later on).

The two most common results of a Wild Card are Steal and Attack. Other effects exist, but they are rarer and appear too infrequently to plan around.

Steal deserves its own explanation, as it functions differently from an attack. It takes coins from another player and cannot be blocked by any Shield, making it one of the few things you cannot stop.

The amount stolen will vary according to the wealth of the target and the success of the steal. The bomb can appear during the steal mini-game, and will end the steal regardless of how much you collected. If you clear the full board without hitting the bomb, at the end you receive a double bonus.

Why three matching symbols matter so much

Although mismatched dice still pay out, the difference between a partial and a matched result is significant. The game is designed so that a 3 of a kind results in the full effect, e.g. gold, a shield, an attack or free rolls.

Your roll multiplier also fits in here. The higher the multiplier, the more rolls you will use per throw, but you will also increase the amount of the reward, which will benefit you during events and cost you rolls when your roll bar is nearly depleted.

Useful rule of thumb: when rolls are limited, keep the multiplier down; when an event has a high yield for an effect you are likely to get, keep the multiplier up; when the yield for that effect is low, lower the multiplier. It also helps to check the next milestone to be achieved before a long session to see whether it pays out more than you invest in the session!

Getting more rolls so the symbols actually work for you

Knowing the symbols is only beneficial if you have some rolls to play with. Rolls take a while to fill so most players who play consistently refill them from other sources rather than waiting.

SuperPlay lists official free roll links on the Dice Dreams social pages typically a number of times per week. Every link works only once per account and will be invalid after a couple of days, so timing is important.

On our home page we post the links we find and check in the order they are added, and include the time until the link is no longer available. Open them on the phone that has Dice Dreams installed, because the link will open the game and automatically drop the rolls into your account.

In addition to links, daily rewards, event tasks and stage missions, unlocking new buildings and inviting friends all drop rolls regularly. One safety tip to remember: real links don’t prompt for a password, download, or payment, and any site that promises unlimited rolls is a scam that can cost you your account.

Final thoughts

The faces on the dice in Dice Dreams are not as complicated as they may seem at first glance. Coins and Jackpot refill your building fund, Attack and Steal bring the big payouts, Shield protects your buildings from attacks and Free Rolls keep you rolling.

Spend your coins before you log off, keep at least one or two shields, and schedule your larger sessions for times when you can find events and new free roll links. That’s pretty much the game in a nutshell.

Which do you get the least of, Free Rolls or helpful Jackpot results? Leave a comment saying which face you never seem to roll.