Odd-Maker's Dice

(Originally posted on BoardGameGeek.)

Bookie’s Dice – a Liar’s Dice variant for #UntestedThursday

Components

• Five dice per player and an opaque rolling cup
• Two “voting” cards for each player: challenger and challenged.
• Poker chips; everyone should start with perhaps $100.

Play

Mostly as in your preferred ruleset – Everyone rolls secretly and bids, until someone challenges. Then the variant changes things:

The challenger and the last roller (the challenged) form two teams. Everyone else chooses a team by placing one of their cards on the table, face-down.

Reveal and count the dice to determine a winner, as in the normal game. However, instead of removing one of the loser’s dice, each player on the losing team pays each player on the winning team a chip.

Example: I call four 6s, and the next player challenges. Three other players side with the challenger, but when the cups are lifted, I’m right! They all pay me a chip (so I gain $4). If I was wrong, I’d have to pay everyone else a chip (losing $4; the other players would each gain $1).

End

When one person runs out of chips, the player(s) with the most chips left win.