Dice Games
Games where the roll is the engine: Yahtzee, Farkle, Liar's Dice, Craps, Sic Bo, Perudo, Shut the Box and the ancient art of knucklebones.
12 sports in dice games.
Barbooth
Balkan two-dice gambling game — the shooter rolls, players take even-money bets on specific outcomes.
Bunco
American social dice game — four tables of four, rotating partners, and lots of shouting when you roll a triple.
Farkle
Family-favorite push-your-luck dice game in which players roll 6 dice, set aside scoring dice, and choose to bank points or risk further rolls — first to 10,000 points wins.
Hazard
Medieval two-dice English gambling game — the ancestor of Craps.
Knucklebones
Ancient game played with sheep or goat astragali — the four-sided predecessor of modern dice.
Liar's Dice
Bluffing dice game descended from South American origins in which players secretly roll dice under cups, make escalating bids on the total count of a given face across all players' dice, then challenge with 'Liar!' or higher bid.
Perudo
Classic Andean Liar's Dice — bid on the total number showing across all cups, aces are wild.
Pig
Push-your-luck one-die game — roll and rack up your turn total, but roll a 1 and lose it all.
Shut the Box
Norman-French pub game — roll two dice, close numbered tiles that sum to the roll; 'shut the box' with all closed.
Tenzi
Modern speed-dice game — everyone rolls ten dice at once, racing to get them all showing the same number.
Yacht
Five-dice scoring game — the 1938 predecessor of Yahtzee, with 12 categories and a maximum 'yacht' bonus.
Yahtzee
Dice game where players roll five dice up to three times per turn and try to score in 13 different categories, aiming for the eponymous 'Yahtzee' (5 of a kind).