What Games Can You Play With Dice

20Oct

The Three Dice Game. Also known as Four-Five-Six, Cee-Lo and See-Low. This is derived from a Chinese banking game called Strung Flowers. As the name suggests, it is played with three dice, and also requires stakes. Play: Players place their bets against a banker who covers them. The banker rolls the three dice first. Yahtzee is a game of five dice where two or more players take turns rolling the dice up to three times in a turn to try and meet certain (poker-like) combinations. After each roll dice can be reserved to try and make the combinations. In each game there are thirteen turns to play and thirteen boxes to fill.

This is a fun and easy game to play for as few as two or as many as ten! It’s small and compact so it travels well. Try it with friends or family! All you need are the 5 dice, a score keeper with pen and paper, and some fun people who want to have a good time! Are you ready to play 5000? The objective of the game is to be the first player to get 5000 points. I collect dice for dice sake. I think they're beautiful and show off interesting materials and geometry. But I'd love to find an excuse to actually use them. I've never played D&D and am not sure if I'm interested in playing it, but I play a lot of more casual tabletop games with friends (Ascension, Munchkin, Carcassone, Ticket to Ride, etc). In this Old West-themed game, you play as the leader of a posse: The famous d6 Shooters. Using a Yahtzee-style dice system, you'll work to complete missions and earn rewards. To play, you'll need a printed playsheet, a pen or pencil, and eight 6-sided dice: one black, two red and five white (although you can substitute colors if desired).

Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Classic Board Games, Modern Board Games

What games can you play with dice

From which I exclude board games that rely primarily on dice, such as Backgammon, other race games, and all roll and move games.

Beetle (aka Cooties)

Each player rolls a die and draws a certain part of a bug, depending on the die roll. Certain parts must be drawn before others may be drawn. The first to complete his bug wins.

Bunco

Roll three dice, scoring the result. No decisions. Widely popular among suburban women in the US.

Chō-han (aka Chō-Han Bakuchi)

Very simple Japanese dice game. Six dice are rolled and the results kept secret. Players bet on whether the sum on the dice is odd or even.

Farkle (aka Zonk, Zilch, 10000, Wimp Out, Greed, Squelch)

A “push your luck” game, and the inspiration for Can’t Stop and other, similar proprietary games.

Roll six dice, banking any that can score (generally any 1, 5, or three of a kind). You can end you turn and score what you have banked, or re-roll the non-banked dice. If you ever roll dice and can’t bank any of them, you lose everything you have banked and pass your turn.

Hazard (aka Craps)

Craps is a specific variant of Hazard.

Games That Use Dice

Pick a number from 5 to 9 and try to roll it (in Craps, the number is 7). If you roll the number you win. If you roll 2, 3, 11, or 12, you may lose, depending on which number you picked. Otherwise, try to roll the same number you just rolled again, before rolling the number that you originally picked.

LCR

A proprietary game only 17 years old from George and Company LLC.

Three dice have sides with L (left), R (right), and C (center), and three blank faces. Roll the dice, passing chips in the direction indicated; center means the center pot. The last player with chips left wins (and, if playing for money, takes all the chips in the center pot).

Its popularity stems from the fact that even after you have no chips remaining, you may still win if a player to your left or right passes you one before the game ends.

Liar’s Dice (aka Bluff, Dudo, Cachito, Perudo, Mexicali, Mexican)

The game of betting on the sum rolled.

Each player rolls a number of dice, looks at his own, and covers them. Players then bet, in turn, on how many dice have how high a face value, with each player having to either call or up the values on his turn. At a call, the calling player wins if the previous player was incorrect; otherwise, the previous player wins.

Mexico

Not to be confused with the above Mexican.

All players roll the dice, with the lowest rolling player tossing the stakes into the pot. Continue until all but one player is eliminated. That player takes the pot.

Pig (aka Pass the Pig)

A simpler push your luck game than Farkle. Roll a single die, banking your roll each time. Pass the die and score what you have banked whenever you want. If you roll a 1, you lose what you have banked and pass the die.

Poker Dice

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.

Sic bo (aka hi lo, Grand Hazard, Chuck-a-luck)

Grand Hazard is not related to Hazard.

Players bet on the outcome of the dice (similar to Roulette), with payouts according to the chances of the roll.

Shut the Box

What Games Can You Play With Two Dice

This game often uses a wooden contraption to keep score.

Player roll two dice, marking off any combination of numbers 2-9 (or 10) that add up to the total rolled on the dice. Continue rolling until you cannot mark any unmarked numbers for a given roll. End your turn and score the numbers marked.

What Games Can I Play With Dice

Yahtzee (aka Yacht, Balut, Kismet)

Five Dice Game Rules

Each player has a grid of dice values, each box of which scores a certain number of points. Roll the dice, re-rolling any dice up to two times. Score any box that you want to which the dice correspond, but that you have not already scored. If you cannot match your roll to any box, score a 0 in any unscored box of you choice. The game ends after all boxes are filled, with the highest total score winning.