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Welcome to the Buttonmen Wiki!

Button Men is a clever little dice game, designed by James Ernest and published in 1999 by Cheapass Games. It originally came on pinback badges in sets of two for about $5 each, with no dice included. Since 1999, hundreds of buttons were released by Cheapass and other companies. In 2018, a new Button Men set was released, this time featuring cards instead of buttons for the characters.

This wiki attempts to catalog as much information as possible about the game, some of which has become increasingly difficult to find.

Button Men can be played online via the fan-maintained Buttonweavers site. Wherever possible this wiki will include information to help the online experience there as well.

If you know someone who might enjoy Button Men, let them know about this wiki! After all, as James Ernest said himself:

I would love to get new players into this game, though it's hard. The game is so simple that it's hard to see how deep it is without playing it. So I hope that the current fans will do their part to bring the game to new players.

Contents

• Rules - The basic rules for Button Men.
• Buttons - Each Button acts as your fighter in the game. Buttons were typically released in themed Sets.
• Dice - Each fighter has a special recipe of skills and abilities represented by dice.
• Strategy - Articles for improving play.
• Miscellaneous - A place for things that don't easily fit into the categories above, including Web Links, Button Men in other Media, and other Ephemera.
• Category:Dice Skills - Searching for Button Men that use a particular Dice Skill? Check here!
• Category:Variable Dice - Searching for Button Men that use a particular type of Variable Dice? Check here!

Looking to help out with the wiki? With the transition to the new platform, lots of articles need some basic clean up, you can also check out the list of wanted pages and wanted categories and help create those. We're always happy to see new scans of buttons, too! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to User_talk:Blinkingline!