These special dice have faces of 9 through A. Roll the dice, re-rolling any dice up to two times. Player with the highest poker hand wins. Poker dice are often used to play Klondike, which is not related to the card game of the same name. The dealer and players roll, with the players winning if they beat the dealer’s hand. Play online dice games like Yahtzee, Pig, Farkle, Balut, Snakes and Ladders, Generala for free. Play online domino games. No download required. Play against computer or another player. JQuery, HTML5, CSS3 based games.
- Nations: The Dice Game. This is a quicker and simpler version of the original Nations.
- A fun, easy game to pick up and play, Las Vegas is an interactive, highly social game where players bet on their luck and try to dominate with the most rolls of any given number. For 2-5 players, gameplay lasts about 30 minutes, and players who dominate numbers receive the largest payout in-game money.
Dice games are games that use or incorporate one or more dice as their sole or central component, usually as a random device.
The following are games which largely, if not entirely, depend on dice:
- Liar's Dice[1]
Collectible dice games[edit]
Patterned after the success of collectible card games, a number of collectible dice games have been published. Although most of these collectible dice games are long out-of-print, there is still a small following for many of them.
Some collectible dice games include:
References[edit]
- ^Raghaven, T. E. S.; Ferguson, Thomas S.; Parthasarathy, T.; Vrieze, O. J. (2012). Stochastic Games And Related Topics: In Honor of Professor L. S. Shapley. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 19. ISBN978-94-011-3760-7.
Dice Game Rules Printable
There are a myriad of different dice games in the world, some dating back thousands of years. Dice games make use of a single die or a number of dice, often as their only real component. This makes them cheap and easy to carry around, and the rules to most dice games are very simple, making them ideal for gambling. As a result, dice games have been played for money for centuries, and in ages past were a common staple of any bar or gathering.
One of the ancient dice games, dating back at least to 14th century England, is Hazard. Hazard is played with two dice, and in spite of its fairly complex rules, was enormously popular throughout England. It was a staple gambling game through the 17th and 18th centuries, leading to all games of chance eventually being referred to as hazard games. Hazard involves one person throwing two dice, after choosing a number between 5 and 9 to be the main. Depending on what is rolled, the die caster can win, lose, or chance, in which case he keeps rolling. After three consecutive losses, the dice pass to the left, who is the new caster.
One of the more modern dice games, seen in most casinos, is craps. Craps is essentially a simplified version of Hazard, where the main is always set as the number 7. Craps in a casino is usually played against a bank owned by the casino, but the game can easily be played in less formal situations too, where the bank is made up of other gamblers who cover the bets against the dice. In a casino context, although only one person is the shooter and actually throws the dice, many players can bet on that player’s rolls. Craps is a game of pure chance, in which the house tends to have an edge of a bit less than 1.5% for 1:1 payouts, and a bit less than a 14% edge on 30:1 odds given on rolls such as a straight roll of a 2 or a 12.
Liar’s dice is another of the popular dice games, originally popularized by the Spanish in Latin America during the 16th century. There are many variations on liar’s dice, and it is well-known historically as being the game of choice among pirates. Many forms of liar’s dice are played between two players, but a number of variants can be played with as many players as you want. At its core, liar’s dice is about deceiving your opponent, and trying to read whether or not they are deceiving you. The dice are rolled while being hidden, and bids are made based on what the player says they have rolled. When the turn comes to a player, they may choose to challenge the previous bid if they think the previous player was lying. Liar’s dice can be played with normal pipped dice, or may be played with special dice that have various playing cards denoted on their faces to make poker hands.
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Other popular dice games include Tabula, Pig, Shut the Box, Chingona, Cee-Lo, Three’s Out, Dudo, Zonk, Greed, and Mexico. Many dice games, such as Yahtzee and Backgammon also use dice as their primary component, although the games usually require additional pieces or boards as well.