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FARKLE

Family rules

Race from 10,000 down to exactly 0 by deciding when to bank your points and when to risk another roll.

Your first banked score must be at least 1,000 points. A first score below 1,000 is a bust and records 0.

Set up

  1. Each player rolls one die. The highest roll goes first.
  2. Play passes to the left.
  3. Every player begins with 10,000 points remaining.

On your turn

  1. Roll all six dice.
  2. After every roll, set aside at least one scoring die. You may stop and bank the turn’s total, or roll the remaining dice.
  3. If all six dice score, pick them all up and continue rolling.
  4. If a roll has no scoring dice, you Farkle: the entire turn scores 0 and play passes left.
  5. Once you have successfully entered the game with 1,000 or more, later turns may bank any valid amount.

Scoring

DicePoints
Single 1100
Single 550
Three 1s300
Three 2s200
Three 3s300
Three 4s400
Three 5s500
Three 6s600
1–6 straight in one roll1,500

House rule: There are no bonuses for four, five, or six of a kind, three pairs, four of a kind with a pair, or two triplets. Only the scoring combinations listed above count.

Important scoring details

Winning

The first player to reduce their remaining score to exactly 0 wins immediately.