Pirate's Bluff
Pirate's Bluff is a dice game where players attempt to deceive each other about who has the best five dice.
How To Play
- Players are assigned a position. This position will later determine who goes first.
- At the beginning of a round, wagers are placed.
- All participants roll 5d6 in private, usually under a dice cup.
- The first player is selected to call their bet. This can be done by rolling a die to determine what position goes first.
- Players take turns bidding on the face value of their dice and the number of dice equal to that face value. On their turn, a player can optionally raise their wager. Other players must match their wager, call their bluff, or fold.
- On their turn, a player can challenge the previous player's dice bid (call their bluff), or make a new dice bid. They must raise either the dice value, or the number of dice.
- Once a player accuses another of "bluffing", the accusee's dice are revealed.
- If their bid matches their dice, they win. Otherwise, the accuser wins the pot.
- If the accuser is incorrect, they forfeit their wager and are out of the current round.
- 80% to the winner
- 20% to the house
- Alice and Broz play a round of Pirate's Bluff. They start by wagering 10 gold each and then each roll 5d6 in private, taking note of each die's value.
- Alice is selected to make the first dice bid. She bids two 1s - that two of her dice landed on 1s.
- Broz thinks this is plausible, but he rolled well. He bids three 3s, which he has.
- Alice reads Broz and thinks he might be telling the truth. She bets two 4s, which she also has, and raises the wager by 5 gold.
- Broz matches the 5 gold wager and quickly bets one 5.
- Alice needs to decide whether Broz is bluffing. She thinks he probably has three 3s, and there's a good chance that one of his other dice is a 5 if he just raised the bet. However, she doesn't have any dice higher than 4. She decides to bluff and bids two 5s.
- Broz takes note that Alice decided not to raise again, and she has now bet 6 different dice values. He thinks that she may be bluffing, so he calls her bluff.
- Devastated, Alice reveals her dice - 1, 1, 4, 4, 3. Broz wins the pot!
- Because he won, Broz doesn't have to reveal his dice. His dice were 3, 3, 3, 4, 6.
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