Liar's Dice is a dice game where each player is given five dice and cup to roll and hide them with. Players make successively higher declarations regarding the results of all the dice remaining in the game, e.g. "there are ten sixes". However, someone can always contest the bid. When that happens, all the dice are revealed and either the bidder or the caller loses dice, depending on who was correct. The last player with dice is the winner.
There is also a public domain dice game known as Liar's Dice. This game is often played with Poker Dice, and differs from the marketed versions in that players only declare on their own hand's value (as opposed to all dice being in play), using poker-hand values. A version of this game with only one cup that gets passed around is what's usually referred to by the name "pokertärning" ("poker dice") in Sweden.
It is believed the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro brought the original game to Spain from South America in the 16th century, and that it might have originated with the Incas: Perudo History.
E.S. Lowe published Liar's Dice in 1974. It included a version of the rules with other dice games.
Milton Bradley published Liar's Dice in 1987. It is the first instance of the six-player, betting board, die re-roll version of the game later published as Bluff / Call My Bluff by FX Schmid in 1993. Both these games were designed by Richard Borg.
Published as Perudo by University Games in 1994 with slightly different rules.
There was also a version with 2 cups published by Luckicup Co. (1850 Garden Tract Rd., Richmond, California) called Luckigames which also contained rules for nine other dice games: Boss Dice; Pee Wee; Ship, Captain, Mate and Crew; Elimination; Poker Dice; Twenty-One; Engineer's Dice; Razzle Dazzle. Year uncertain.
Endless Games (I) published a 4-player version of Liars Dice in 2002.
These are the rules for playing Liar's Dice with a mechanism that locks the dice (usually a specialized box). It provides players with the option to re-roll only a subset of dice.
Summary sheet that I use for perudo / liar's dice.
It lists the basic perudo rules using liar's dice value of aces (ace bid is valued 1 less than # aces x 2 regular bid) along with optional rules and variants to add on with experience.
Hexagonal board designed to fit inside the Yahtzee Free For All box. Yahtzee Free For All comes with 5 dice for each of 6 players, so add a few cups and this board and you also have your own Liars' Dice!
NOTE: The file contains 2 different versions. One is a tabloid sized page (11" x 17") with the full board (page 1) so that it can be printed in one piece. The other are two letter sized pages with one half on each page in case you want to print it at home.
This is a probability chart for up to 6 players. I includes the option of having a "wild" die or not. Offers computation for both exact dice rolls and also "min M out of N" possibilities which is actually more useful when playing the game.
This board allows you to track the bid without having to change the face of a die, simply move a marker to the current bid.
Current file corrects the previous version of this file.
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