I've read some rules, and I did not see it mentioned that you have to start with Ones, or something else low - not sure why you would not be able to just start high (shorter game, but why should that matter?)

This is how I would do it on this site (for 2 players) - Would make it a "match" of the first person to win 5 rolls (so 9 total rolls of the dice are possible)

First person - has the option to pick between 1-10 dice (total number), and then have the option to pick 1-6 (what is on the dice).

Second person has the option to either calling the person (show dice & end round), or raising the bid with either the same dice # & higher total number of dice, OR, and higher dice number and any total number of dice.

I would think most hands would last between 1-4 times between each other - and playing to 5 would make the game last around 20 moves on average (again, maybe less - or maybe more depending on the players)

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Of course making it a 3 or 4 player game would also be nice.