{"id":644,"date":"2021-04-13T16:32:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T20:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/?p=644"},"modified":"2021-04-13T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T20:32:46","slug":"liars-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/13\/liars-dice\/","title":{"rendered":"Liars Dice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to the Pirates of the Caribbean I&#8217;ve been introduced to this game that uses dice and a wager component, with the movie using &#8220;years of service&#8221; as it was the only thing the pirates aboard the Flying Dutchmen had as currency. As a young 20-something I used to Play 7&#8217;s and 11&#8217;s, where if you rolled 7, 11, or a pair you&#8217;d get to tell someone to drink. A simple game that I don&#8217;t want to pass to my youth just yet, and I feel a simple gambling game is better to pass along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liar%27s_dice\" target=\"_blank\">Liars dice<\/a> is easy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You are playing the table.<\/li><li>Everyone states their wage.<\/li><li>Everyone rolls their 5 dice and keeps what they rolled to themselves<\/li><li>Last player to drop dice goes first, play passes to the right.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point comes the actual game. You state a quantity and a dice face that exists on the table. If nobody calls you a liar, play passes on to the next person who has to state some &#8220;improvement&#8221; to the previous bid. That improvement can come in one of three ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You can up the bid with the same face, such as 3 5s to 4 5s,<\/li><li>You can up the bid and change the face, such as 3 5s to 4 2s,<\/li><li>You can keep the same bid but provide a higher face, such as 4 2s to 4 3s. This cannot happen if the previous bid was with 6s.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So, a series of rounds between 3 players can run the following<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Player B: 3 2s<\/li><li>Player D: 4 4s<\/li><li>Player W: 4 5s<\/li><li>Player B: 6 3s<\/li><li>Player D: 7 5s<\/li><li>Player W: 8 5s<\/li><li>Player B: 12 5s, of which Player D would call Player B a liar<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This post is thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T44LuxdH0iw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Well, Someone Had to Explain the Liar&#8217;s Dice Scene In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&#8217;s Chest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the Pirates of the Caribbean I&#8217;ve been introduced to this game that uses dice and a wager component, with the movie using &#8220;years of service&#8221; as it was the only thing the pirates aboard the Flying Dutchmen had as currency. As a young 20-something I used to Play 7&#8217;s and 11&#8217;s, where if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,9,14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-gaming","category-goals","category-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}