Pig
Push-your-luck one-die game — roll and rack up your turn total, but roll a 1 and lose it all.
🌤indoor
What is Pig?
Pig is a simple push-your-luck dice game. On each turn a player rolls one die and adds the result to a running turn total; they may hold at any time and bank the turn total to their overall score. But roll a 1 and the turn ends with zero added. First to 100 (or whatever the agreed target) wins. Widely used in schools to teach probability and expected-value decision-making.
Quick facts
Category
Dice Games
Type
Individual
Players
2–8
Where played
indoor
Country of origin
🇺🇸 United States
Estimated origin
First described in the 1940s — the classroom push-your-luck classic
Olympic
No
Popularity
regional
Sources & provenance
Last verified 2026-08-24.verified