Liar's Dice

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.

Awards

• 2006 Årets Spel Best Adult Game.
• 1993 Spiel des Jahres winner.

Online Play

• BrettspielWelt (real-time)

History

Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro brings the original game to Spain from South America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_Dice) in the 16th century

E.S. Lowe published a Liar's Dice in 1974.

Milton Bradley published Liars 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.