Poker Dice
Poker hands without the cards: five dice, up to three rolls, and the best hand takes the round. Five rounds decide the match.
One link, live dice, up to six players.
How to play Poker Dice
- On your turn, roll five dice. Hold any you like and roll the rest, up to three rolls in all, then stand on your hand.
- Your hand sits face up on the table while the players after you take their turns and shoot at it. Going late is information; going first is pressure.
- When everyone has stood, the best poker hand takes the round. A dead tie splits, and nobody scores.
- Five rounds, most rounds wins the match, and a tied match plays extra rounds until somebody leads. The first roll rotates so nobody always shoots last.
Traditional poker dice wear card faces, Ace down to Nine. Ours wear pips with sixes high, which changes nothing about the game: there are no suits, no flushes, and no bluffing, just the shapes.
Hand rankings, with their exact odds
The rankings follow the card game, and the enumeration below, every one of the 7,776 possible rolls counted, confirms the order of play is exactly the order of rarity. Computed, never estimated, in keeping with how every number on this site is produced.
| Hand | Rolls out of 7,776 | One-roll chance |
|---|---|---|
| five of a kind | 6 | 0.08% |
| four of a kind | 150 | 1.93% |
| full house | 300 | 3.86% |
| straight | 240 | 3.09% |
| three of a kind | 1,200 | 15.43% |
| two pair | 1,800 | 23.15% |
| one pair | 3,600 | 46.3% |
| bust | 480 | 6.17% |
Two shapes surprise card players. A straight is far rarer here than at the card table, because five dice must land five different faces in a row, so treat a rolled straight like the treasure it is. And a pair is the most common hand there is, which is why standing on one rarely survives three opponents.
About the computer player
It plays tavern sense: keeps its biggest group, chases a straight only when there is nothing better to keep, stands early on a full house, and once your hand is face up, stops rolling the moment it has you beaten. Solid and beatable, and honest about being so.