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Players: 2-8
Ages: Kids, Teens and Adults
Objective: Card discarding

• Deal 5 cards face down to each player. Place the rest of the cards face down in the center of the table, then turn the first card up and place it beside the facedown pile. If an eight is turned, it is buried in the middle of the pack and the next card is turned. The face-up cards create a starter pile.

• Starting to the dealer’s left, each player places one card face up on the starter pile. Each card played (other than an eight) must match the card showing at the top of the starter pile in suit or denomination. So if the king of Clubs is the starter, the card played must either be another king, or be any card from the clubs suit. If unable to play a card, the player draws cards from the top of the facedown cards until a play is possible.

• If the facedown pile runs out, the player must pass his or her turn to the next player. At that point, save the card at the top of the starter pile, then shuffle the cards underneath, turn them face down, and make them the new stock pile.

• All eights are wild. An eight may be played at any time in turn, and the player should only specify a suit for it, not a number.

• The first player without cards wins the game!

Players: 2-8
Ages: Kids, Teens and Adults
Objective: Card discarding

• Remove three of the queens from the deck. The remaining queen is the Old Maid.

• Choose a dealer and deal the cards as evenly as possible among the group. It’s acceptable for some players to have more cards than other players.

• Players sort their cards and discard any pairs. (If a player has three of a kind, he discards two of the cards and keeps the third).

• The dealer then offers his hand, face down, to the player on his left. That player randomly takes one card from the dealer. If the card matches one he already has in his hand, he puts the pair down. If not, he keeps it.

• Play proceeds clockwise, so the player to the left of the dealer then offers his hand, face down, to the player on his left. This cycle repeats until there are no more pairs and the only remaining card is the Old Maid.

• The game ends when the Old Maid is the only card in play. The person holding the Old Maid loses.

Players: 4-10
Ages: Kids, Teens and Adults
Objective: Card collection

Rules:

• Have everyone sit in a circle around a table or on the floor. Deal clockwise until you run out of cards. Everyone holds their cards facedown without looking at them.

• Going around the circle, each player draws a card from the top of their deck (face-out, so that the player cannot see the card before it is played) and places that card in the center of the circle. Each player continues to place their cards in the center this way.

• When a Jack court card is turned face up, the goal is to be the first person to “slap” it, or cover it with your hand. If several people slap at once, the person whose hand is most in contact with the Jack adds all the cards to his or her pile.

• If a player incorrectly slaps a card, he or she must give the top card in his or her pile to the player who placed the slapped card. That player adds the extra card to the bottom of his or her deck.

• When a player runs out of cards, the player is out—unless he or she can slap a Jack laid by someone else. At that point, the previously “out” player is back in and can play with the cards collected from the pile.

• Play continues until one person wins all of the cards. For a shorter version, stop play when the first person runs out of cards. Whoever has the most cards in his or her hand is the winner.

Players: 2+
Ages: Kids, Teens and Adults
Number of Dice: 6

Rules:

• Decide who will start: you can do this by having each player roll a dice (or a number of dice). The player with the highest score starts the game. You then proceed clockwise to the next player.

• A player’s turn starts by rolling all six dice – the following scenarios then exist:

• The player did not roll any 1’s, 5’s or scoring combination (see further below for an overview of most scoring combinations): the turn of that player ends with 0 points and the next player rolls the dice.
• The player rolled a scoring combination:
• He can choose to keep that score and add it to this overall score. The turn of the player ends.
• He can choose to roll all six dice again and try to get a better score – but he loses the points of his first roll!
• He can choose to set aside the dice of the scoring combination and roll the remaining dice again to try and get additional points. The dice set aside cannot be used again to make a combination with the dice rolled. If the player rolls the remaining dice again and the combination of the remaining dice has no score, his turn ends with 0 points.

• To start adding any points to his or her overall score, a player needs to have scored the minimum required score in a single turn. This can be 500 points for example. So if a player scores only 400 points in his first turn, he cannot add any points to his score. If he then rolls 600 points in the next turn, he can add the 600 points to his score. In all later turns of that game, the player can add any points the scored to his overall score.

• The game ends when a player has reached 10,000 points. When a player reaches 10,000 points or more, all other players have one more turn. If another player reaches a higher score, he or she is the winner of the game;

Greed Dice Game Scoring Combinations

The scoring combinations are the essential part of the greed dice game rules. Although different variants exist – the most common scoring combinations are the following:

• Each 1 that you roll is worth 100 points
• Each 5 that you roll is worth 50 points
• Three of a kind is worth 100 points multiplied by the number on the dice. So, for example, three of a kind of 5’s is worth 500 points. Each additional dice will then double the score, so for example, if you roll four 5’s then you will have 1000 (500×2) points. If you roll five 5’s them you have 2000 (1000×2) points
• Three of a kind of 1’s is worth 1000 points. The same rule applies for additional 1’s: 4×1 is 2000 points, 5×1 is 4000 points and 6×1 is 8000 points
• Three pairs is worth 500 points
• A five dice straight (1-2-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5-6) is worth 1000 points, while a six dice straight is worth 1500 points

Players: 2+
Ages: Kids, Teens and Adults
Number of Dice: 1

Rules:

• Decide who will start by having each player roll a dice – the one with the highest score starts the game.

• A player’s turn starts by rolling only one dice. The player continues to roll the dice again, as long as he does not roll a 1 or decides to add his points to his overall score. Each time the player rolls the dice, the following options exist:

• The player rolls a 1 – his turn ends without any points (he also loses the points from any previous rolls in the current turn).
• Any other number than a 1 is rolled – the player can add that number to the points scored in his current turn and continue by rolling the dice again.
• The player decides to end his current turn and add all the points from his turn to his overall score.

• The game ends when a player has reached 100 points and becomes the winner of the game.

Players: 3+
Ages: Kids, Teens and Adults
Number of Dice: 3

Rules:

• This fun game is a perfect dice game for kids. They will have great fun while improving their math skills.

• Each player starts his turn by rolling three dice and sets aside the highest number. He then rolls the two remaining dice and again sets aside the highest number. Then finally the one remaining dice is rolled again, and the number of that dice is added up together with the numbers on the two dice already set aside. The sum of these three numbers gives the final score of that player’s turn.

• The winner is the player that has the higher overall number on that turn or the player that has the highers overall number after an agreed upon number of turns.

• You can also play other variants of this game, for example by multiplying the numbers of the dice.