Tower - Rules, History & Strategy Guide

Tower is an Arcadia original in the push-your-luck tradition: the same bank-or-risk tension that drives dice games like Pig and Farkle, rebuilt as a floor-by-floor climb where every door is a fresh gamble and quitting is always an option.

The format punishes greed elegantly: every extra floor multiplies your payout, but one trap door wipes the whole run. Knowing when to stop is the entire game.

Climb an 8-floor tower by opening doors — most are safe, some are traps — and bank your multiplier before a trap ends the run.

1. Choose your difficulty: the number of doors per floor and how many hide traps.
2. On each floor, open one door. A safe door advances you and raises the multiplier.
3. A trap door ends the run and forfeits the unbanked amount.
4. Cash out on any floor to bank the current multiplier.
5. Clear all 8 floors for the maximum payout of the configuration.

• Know the per-floor odds: with 4 doors and 1 trap each floor is 75% safe, but surviving all 8 floors is roughly a 10% proposition.
• The multiplier compensates for risk — decide before the run at which floor you will bank, and honour it.
• Harder door/trap configurations pay steeper multipliers; pick the risk curve that fits your session, not your adrenaline.
• Late floors are where runs die: the expected value of one more door falls fast once you have real winnings at stake.

The door and trap counts are configurable, which effectively creates difficulty tiers: conservative towers with many safe doors and modest multipliers, or brutal ones where each floor is close to a coin flip and full climbs pay accordingly.