News

2004-07-20
When I added all the Origins 2004 buttons, they wrecked havoc with my database. I will soon start to code a new frontend. Ideas and suggestions are welcome.

2004-04-16
Added the 6 Bridge and Tunnel button men from the Bridge and Tunnel's Mobile Phone Button Men Game.

2004-04-15
Added the Fightball set from Cheapass.

2004-04-14
Added the Green Apples button man from Chicagoland Gamers Conclave.

2003-07-11
Added two new buttons, MothMan and Harry Pudding, to the Renaissance set.

2003-05-01
Added the Space Girlz set from the Button Men Online Game.

2002-08-20
Added the Button Brain set with the new Constant Dice.

2002-08-20
Added the MAX button from Anime Expo 2002.

2002-08-03
Got the stats for Micro, the button from Origins 2002.

2002-07-08
Power Trip Dice became Stinger Dice instead.

2002-06-26
Added two new buttons (Dr. Speculo and Lascivia) to the Renaissance set with the new Ornery Dice.

2002-06-11
Info on the upcoming the Diceland set with the new Power Trip Dice.

2002-06-11
Added the Micro button from Origins 2002. No stats yet though.

2001-12-04
Added the Apples button man from Chicagoland Gamers Conclave.

2001-11-26
Added the two SFR button men from SFR, the producer of Dragon Dice.

2001-10-16
Added stats for the Samurai button men set.

2001-10-16
Added stats for the Demicon the 13th button men set.

2001-08-12
BattleMats are ready. Click on any ButtonMen name on the Roster page or the Printer Friendly Roster page to get a BattleMat.

2001-08-08
Added stats for the GenCon 2001 buttons Jorgi and Tsusuko.

2001-08-08
Added the Gaming Guardians buttons and all their special dice. Deception Dice, Evil Dice, Insult Dice, Loaded Dice and Teleport Dice.

2001-07-31
Added the Gripen Button from SydCon 10 and the new special dice type, Rage Dice. Both invented by (I have to say this) me.

2001-07-09
Added the 2 new Yoyodone Buttons Pikathulhu and Ulthar from Fuzzface.

2001-07-09
Added the 3 new Brawl Buttons from Origins 2001.

2001-06-26
Added The Metamorphers set from the now defunct IMGames Button Men game.

2001-06-22
Added flavortext for the Sluggy set.

2001-04-19
Added a word document with all the rules, special dice and a roster. Also available from the rules section.

2001-04-19
A new link pointing to James Ernest Double Secret is now on the link page.

2001-04-16
The six Sluggy Button Men are finally available for sale.

2000-12-29
Added The Howling Wolf set.
Added stats for the Sailor Moon 2 set.
Updated the Tournament Legal stats.

2000-12-27
Dana's Button Men Web Game is online again.

2000-11-29
New printer friendly roster created.

2000-11-15
Added The Japanese Beetle set.

2000-11-06
Added a link to The authorized online Button Men game.

2000-10-13
Added the Faeries set.

2000-10-08
Added the ShorCon Button Man ConMan.

2000-10-01
Added the Bruno! set and its new Berserker Dice type

2000-09-22
Added stats the for the Dork Victory set.

2000-09-09
Added stats the for the Sluggy set. (It is... kind of released, but not for sale yet.)

 

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Button Brains  (LinguaPlay)
Al-Khwarizmi 46 [co]81220
 Al-Khwarizmi wrote an amazing book about solving everyday problems in life and business with mathematics. Our word "algebra" came from the title of his book, and the term "algorithm" is from a Latin translation of his name.
Carl Friedrich Gauss 6 [co]88(12,12) [tw]20
 Best known for his Theory of Numbers, Carl Friedrich Gauss startled his grade school teacher by deducing that the sum of the integers from 1 to 100 was really the sum of 50 pairs of integers which all add to 101.
Dr. Fan Chung Graham 46 [co]810/20 [op]X [ms]
 Before becoming the Akami Professor of Internet Mathematics at UC San Diego, Dr. Fan Chung Graham directed math research labs at Bellcore. She and her husband Ron developed semi-random routing theories that keep the Internet running.
Dr. Ron Graham 6 [co]101220V [ms]
 Known informally as "The Mathemagician," Dr. Ron Graham was Chief Scientist at AT&T Labs. He's treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences, and also the ex-president of the International Jugglers Association.
Leonard Eugene Dickson 36 [co]1020W
 Leonard Eugene Dickson loved pure mathematics. He wrote 267 research papers and 18 books, including the three volume "History of the Theory of Numbers." His favorite quote: "Thank God that number theory is unsullied by any applications."
Paul Erdos 346 [co]12U
 One of the best known and most respected mathematicians of the 20th century, Paul Erdos (air-dish) wrote or co-authored 1,475 papers. As he put it, "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."
Pythagoras 6 [co]81012Z
 Pythagoras and his team in Italy called the mathematikoi developed cool triangle theorems, described the five regular solids, and thought that numbers had personal characteristics like male, female, beautiful, and ugly.
Theano 46 [co](8,8) [tw]10S
 Theano worked alongside her husband, Pythagoras, writing about mathematics, physics, medicine, and child psychology. She's best known for her work on the "Golden Mean" and the "Golden Rectangle."

Swing Dice Value range
R 2-16
S 6-20
T 2-12
U 8-30
V 6-12
W 4-12
X 4-20
Y 1-20
Z 4-30
 
Abbrevation Attribute
AR Armor
AU Auxiliary
BE Berserker
CH Chance
CO Constant
DE Deception
EV Evil
FI Fire
FO Focus
GA Game
IN Insult
LO Loaded
MI Mighty
MS Mood Swing
MO Morphing
NU Null
OP Option
OR Ornery
PL Plasma
PO Poison
QU Queer
RA Rage
RB Rebound
RE Reserve
SH Shadow
SE Sleep
SL Slow
SC Speciality
SP Speed
ST Stealth
SI Stinger
TE Teleport
TH Thief
TS Time and Space
TR Trip
TU Turbo Swing
TW Twin
VA Value
WE Weak