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Every game here is playable sober. Where a rule calls for a drink, the rules also say what to do instead — the fun does not depend on it. Sips, not shots. Nobody has to prove anything to anybody.

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Liar's Dice

The only bar game where being good at math is less useful than having a face that gives nothing away. You bid on dice you cannot see and you lie about the ones you can. Everyone at the table learns something about you and none of it is flattering.

3-6 players Five dice and one opaque cup per player barely boozy
How to play
  1. Every player gets five dice and a cup. Shake, slam the cup face down, and peek at your own dice without showing anyone.
  2. The first player makes a bid: a quantity and a face, like "four fours." That claims there are at least four dice showing that face across every cup on the table.
  3. Going clockwise, each player either raises the bid or calls the previous bidder a liar. A raise means a higher quantity, or the same quantity on a higher face.
  4. Ones are wild and count as any face. To bid on ones themselves, halve the current quantity and round up. To leave ones and bid a normal face again, double the ones bid and add one.
  5. When someone calls liar, every cup comes up and you count. If the bid was true, the challenger loses one die. If it was false, the bidder loses one die.
  6. Whoever lost a die starts the next round. Lose all five dice and you are out. Last player holding dice wins.
  7. Whoever loses a die takes a sip, and anyone may pass without explaining. Nobody else drinks, which is why this one stays civil longer than most.
  8. Sober version: skip the sips and track dice lost on a napkin as a running score across the night. Highest total buys the next round of whatever people are having.

House rule: Bitch Love rule: any player who says "I knew it" after the reveal loses a die on the spot. You did not know it. You never know it.

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Farkle

Pure greed with a scoreboard. Every roll asks whether you bank what you have or find out what happens next, and the answer is usually wrong. No drinking in this one. The dice are cruel enough on their own.

2-8 players Six dice, pen and paper. no booze needed
How to play
  1. Six dice, a shared scorepad, and a target of 10,000 points. Play passes left.
  2. Roll all six. Each 1 scores 100 and each 5 scores 50. Three of a kind scores the face value times 100, except three 1s which score 1000.
  3. Bigger sets: four of a kind is 1000, five of a kind is 2000, six of a kind is 3000. A full 1-2-3-4-5-6 straight is 1500, and three pairs is 1500.
  4. After each roll set aside at least one scoring die, then choose: re-roll the dice you did not set aside for more points, or bank everything you have accumulated this turn.
  5. Roll and score nothing at all and you Farkle. The entire turn's points vanish and play passes on. Bank early or keep your opinions to yourself.
  6. If all six dice end up scoring, that is hot dice. Pick all six back up and keep rolling with your running total intact.
  7. You need 500 points in a single turn to get on the board. After that, any bank counts, however small.
  8. The first player to reach 10,000 triggers the last lap. Everyone else gets one final turn to beat the number. Highest total takes it.

House rule: Three Farkles in a row and you lose 1000 banked points. It hurts exactly as much as it should, and it stops the table from rolling forever.