Liar's Dice (1986)

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.

This version of Liar's Dice has been marketed in various names (with small rule variations) including: Bluff, Liar's Dice, and Perudo.

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 oppossed to all dice being in play), and Poker Dice hands are used. A version of this game with only one cup that gets passed around is what's usually referred to by the name "pokertärning" ("poker di(c)e") in Sweden.

Play the Pirates of the Caribbean version online: Pirate's Dice

Re-implemented by:

• Bid It

Awards

• 2009 Ludoteca Ideale, Games of the Year
• 2006 Årets Spel (Sweden), Winner, Best Adult Game
• 1993 Spiel des Jahres winner.

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History

It is beleievd 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 an FX Schmid re-issue in 1997.

Ravensburger, having acquired FX Schmid, re-published Bluff in 2001.

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 published a 4-player version of Liars Dice in 2002.

The game, Pirate's Dice, portrayed in the 2006 film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, is essentially the same, but has simplified rules.

Luring is the alternate name for the Norwegian version that was published by Cappelen in 2006. It includes up to six players.

Components (Liar's Dice):

• 1 Gameboard
• 6 Dice Cups
• 30 Yellow Dice
• 1 Red Die
• 1 Rulesheet

Components (Perudo):

• 6 Cups
• 30 Dice
• 1 Travel Pouch
• Instructions