Blazing Games - Dozen Days - Dice - Poker Dice

Dozen Days of Dice: Poker Dice

Instructions

General Game play

This is a dice version of the standard game of draw poker. The game starts out by establishing the rolling order of the players. This order is shifted every round so every player will get the advantage of playing last. This is due to the fact that the last player has a slight advantage over the first player as they know what hand they have to beat. Each player then gets to roll. The goal for the game is to get the best poker hand possible. After the first roll, the player selects which dice he or she wants to keep by clicking on them. Once the dice to keep have been selected, the remaining dice are re-rolled and the final hand for that player is determined. Once all players have formed their hands, the player with the best hand is declared the winner and given two points. In the rare case of a tie, all players involved in the tie are given a point.

While special dice can be obtained for this game, you can also play this game with ordinary dice. I have decided to take an in-between route and have both the card value and the dice value present on the die.

The poker hands, from worst to best are:

• High number - no other valid hand was formed
• Pair - two of the dice have the same number
• Two pairs - to different pairs of numbers
• Three of a kind - Three dice of the same number
• Full House - Three of a kind and a pair
• Straight - A sequence of numbers
• Four of a Kind - four dice all with the same number
• Five of a Kind - all five of the dice have the same number