How to Play the Old West Game "Liar's Dice"

How to Play the Old West Game "Liar's Dice" - Red Dead Redemption Style

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Liar's Dice is a game of deception and chance dating back to the Incan Empire, but featured prominently in the original Red Dead Redemption and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. It's been my favorite campfire game since learning it in Red Dead. Now, learn a bit of the history, learn how to play it, and see one of the more unique antiques in my private collection - an original, incomplete set of Liar's Dice found in the hollow of a tree in the middle of the Arizona desert!
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@MattHall2003 3 жыл бұрын

Note to self: don’t mess with Tom when he activates dead-eye😂

@drakecarter1780 2 жыл бұрын

I did a spot on bid on Red Dead Redemption on the 360 in 2010. There were 5 players. All of them, including myself, had one die left. My spot on bid was right and they all lost at the same time. I had to mute my microphone lol.

@Mercury29477 2 жыл бұрын

I did the same thing today for the bandits outfit both but it was 2 other people

@titaniumspike1779 3 жыл бұрын

Liar's Dice was my all time favorite mini game in RDR

@ewokYT117 2 жыл бұрын

Been playing RDR1 for hours, many of those playing liars dice. Within the 1st 5mins of this video, I now understand the game. Thanks

@jamesrob1016 3 жыл бұрын

This is so cool! I love the attire and the time in history. The game looks fun too! I have many photos of late 1800's and early 1900's depicting the same settings with my family enjoying nature and the outdoors like you are presenting in this video. Thank you for your time and please do more lol!

@titanicman9329 3 жыл бұрын

A nice bunch of wholesome content for the month.

@richardhead5879 2 жыл бұрын

I always thought that when someone calls a "spot on" correctly, everyone else looses a dice apart from the person that called it. This seems to remove the idea that only the person who bet being punished for essentially betting correctly. Give it a try next time, it's pretty good

@glmathgrant Жыл бұрын

I always understood that a correct call of "spot on" causes the player who made the call to regain a lost die; either way, the higher risk "spot on" call carries a higher reward than calling the previous player a liar, as it should. The important thing is for all players to agree on the rules beforehand, since many different variations on the rules do exist!

@sheenaalexis8710 3 жыл бұрын

"K he's out" "Alright, my turn then" Bahahahahaha. That was hilarious.

@dyminomonsters5274 3 жыл бұрын

That was so enjoyable and wholesome to watch and learn. I couldn't figure out how to play liars dice on red dead redemption, couldn't understand the rules but the way you three played it and told the rules, I'm pretty sure I can figure it out now. Cant wait for more content.

@byronlee8745 3 жыл бұрын

This is honestly one of my favorite dice games ever!

@chazzmccloud36 2 жыл бұрын

RDR is where I learned about Liars Dice! Took me a little bit to get the hang of it and was a bit frustrating at first, but once I figured out to play the percentages it turned into my favorite dice game! Now I wanna go back and play Red Dead Redemption

@DarthMeteos 3 жыл бұрын

I play this game pretty frequently, I'm glad you're bringing more attention to it.

@mikez1017 2 жыл бұрын

Who the hell do you play this game with nerd.

@DarthMeteos 2 жыл бұрын

@@mikez1017 your mom

@ag-bf3ty 2 жыл бұрын

@@DarthMeteos I know I'm 9 months late to this comment but damn that's one of the sickest burns I've ever seen and I had to post my congratulations to you.

@junior523 Жыл бұрын

@@DarthMeteos ouch

@dejja7376 Жыл бұрын

@@mikez1017 with friends probably, know about what those are?

@davidbates874 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. I've never heard of this game. Definitely will give it a try.

@alainlesueur8437 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome Tom!! Thanks for sharing how to play this game. :)

@gangrel_76 3 жыл бұрын

I cannot stress how cool this is.

@charliesnark6535 Жыл бұрын

I have a Pirates of the Caribbean themed liars dice set, I love it

@shawbag11 2 жыл бұрын

its taken me years of rewatching dead mans chest and playing red dead 1 to understand this game and i think i finaly get it. personaly i think i still prefer poker but if they every add this into red dead 2 i think ill be down for a all nighter XD

@chazzmccloud36 2 жыл бұрын

It legit bummed me out when I found out this game wasn't included in RDR 2

@chickenpancake1614 3 жыл бұрын

OOHHHHH I PLAYED THIS IN LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

@rancidschannel3206 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for explaining this

@annesummers09 Жыл бұрын

I'd like to see you do something about the houses during the great depression. And food rationing during the war. Great video.

@williamhurrelbrink3324 5 ай бұрын

I just begin to get over losing Arthur Morgan and ya hit me with this great video. Excellent channel man.. love it.

@rancidschannel3206 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this

@FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Another excellent video.

@clintonneuhaus1818 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video guys!

@jprevard Жыл бұрын

The bid at 9:08 was legit, buy the guy on the right a drink 😉 Nice video

@alexanderstuff5100 3 жыл бұрын

Wish I had friends now :( That looks like a fun game

@kittybitts567 2 жыл бұрын

God bless you with lots of friends, true friends who love you, and lots of joy, in Jesus' Holy Name, Amen!

@LoneWolf051 3 жыл бұрын

you found John Marston's liar's dice can and dice......

@rancidschannel3206 Жыл бұрын

Nice find

@nomadpurple6154 Жыл бұрын

Sweet. Especially the bit where you refer to "incredibly old" something which is at least 400yrs young than my local church and many other buildings used across the world, such a weird perspective to have.

@gangrel_76 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone: Bluf- Tom: STAHP IT

@therealjackkennedy 3 жыл бұрын

Nothing like that beginning reminds me of one of Tom’s old films like those war films and the last signals

@SunBrohan 3 жыл бұрын

We play spot on with collateral damage meaning if you call it everyone else loses a dice except for the caller

@PartTimeExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

I like that

@wattycuffee5664 3 жыл бұрын

I guess that makes sense, because it's kind of hard to get a spot on sometimes and it's risky so if you pull it off everyone loses a die.

@dajanicki 7 ай бұрын

Actually if the bid is spot-on and it’s called, everybody except the caller loses a die.

@defwebsolutions 3 жыл бұрын

Fun game!

@FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

indeed.

@markhopkins373 2 жыл бұрын

The same game played by Davy Jones and Will Turner in 'Pirates of Caribbean - Deadman's Chest/At World's End" . I have them on DVD, but I haven't watched them in a while, so I don't remember.

@FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Back to film making, I see tom.

@LWolf12 Жыл бұрын

That's pretty interesting, never played Red Dead or anything but still.

@robertturosik416 Жыл бұрын

That looks like a fun new gambling game I can show to the family at Christmas.

@ErikGT 3 жыл бұрын

Can you make a new livestream on the official THG channel when you do Titanic THG exploring live 2020/2021. I'm building the Titanic in Minecraft 1:2 scale and i'm using blueprints and your game as my sources

@Goomba_Smash 3 жыл бұрын

The "spot on" rule makes no sense to me. It basically punishes the bidder for guessing correctly and there's no defense to it.

@PowerStar004 3 жыл бұрын

Well, on one hand if it's your turn, you know that the last bid was correct, and the bid is high enough that raising it will get your bluff called for sure, it's nice to have a defense against THAT. On the other hand, there are versions of liar's dice where there is no spot on. They are specifically using the Red Dead Redemption version, but if you don't like spot on, you can play without it. There's also versions of liar's dice where calling spot on correctly awards an extra die to the person that called it. This makes spot on meaningful, without directly punishing the prior bidder for being right.

@gangrel_76 3 жыл бұрын

I love liar's dice

@snailman4395 3 жыл бұрын

YALLL BETTER MAKE MORE LIARS DICE VIDS cuz i'm honestly tired of looking up liars dice on youtube and all i get are "how to" videos. Like nah, I wanna see a few games happen!

@BanishedSilentShadow3318 3 жыл бұрын

This honestly explains alot better how liars dice works

@SQUAREHEADSAM1912 3 жыл бұрын

Found in a yuca tree? That reminds me of that 1873 Winchester found lying next a stump for over 130 years.

@kavinskysmith4094 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if people had to write down the rules to learn them, as this seems like alot to keep track of at first.

@Quasihamster 3 жыл бұрын

Screw Gwent! This is much better for the 1st class smoking room!

@AC-ob8xt 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t like the “spot on” option, without it the game is much more intense in forcing someone into a bad situation

@luisb9862 7 ай бұрын

cool!

@TrapperAaron 3 жыл бұрын

I do love this game. Can be tough to explain to drunk people but when people know how to play it's very entertaining and someone will inevitably cheat

@rasheednathagamingchannel 2 ай бұрын

I LOVE YOUR VIDEO IT A THUMB UP ON YOUR VIDEO FROM RASHEED NATHA ONLYS

@amedeoconta 3 жыл бұрын

Slightly different rules than the other video on KZfaq which they don't add an old west vibe. In the other ruleset the player who loses a die goes first. I also wasn't aware of the "spot on" option. One Question...why do you have to only increase the face value when making a new bet. For example after someone bets "four 4s", why can't you counterbet "five 2s"? Like why can't you bet on a lower die number but keep the bet amount the same or higher? Good content thank you

@fan9775 3 жыл бұрын

Because then the risk is lowered.

@amedeoconta 3 жыл бұрын

@@fan9775 how does the different face number lower the risk? Your increasing the number of total die still so how is that lowering the risk?

@matthewaskew8076 3 жыл бұрын

Because of luck, your better of betting a low die number such as six 2s because that's more likely to occur than two 6s

@PowerStar004 2 жыл бұрын

You CAN go from four 4s to five 2s. You just can't go from four 4s to four 2s.

@Pepe-ts9ec Жыл бұрын

@@matthewaskew8076 There is a 1/6 chance to get any number on a die. Getting 6 of any number is inherently less likely than 2 of any number. By your logic, you'd be more likely to roll 6 1s than you would to roll 1 6. And that isn't true.

@bigmack8307 3 жыл бұрын

Songs in background?

@PartTimeExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

Check out the 15:53 timestamp in the video

@bigmack8307 3 жыл бұрын

@@PartTimeExplorer Thanks Tom

@RandomFandom1 2 жыл бұрын

Here is why 6 is worth less than 5,4,3,2,1. The amount of weight removed from each face of the die to make the dimples. Therefore the odds are actually skewed ever so slightly. That means 6 is the most often thrown number on cheap dice that don’t have a counterweight

@TheAzhrael666 2 жыл бұрын

i thought the ones are supposed to be the wilds and will be counted as what was called

@CPorter 3 жыл бұрын

Heres an observation: the first thing that caught my eye was that you had this weird definitely homemade, no reproducer phonograph, playing a 78 at 45 or 33 RPM. And it looks to be a Red labeled Columbia 78 too. And clearly you over dubbed it was some other stuff

@PartTimeExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

C Porter Sheesh dude. It’s a 1914 Victor Talking Machine model E, and I that’s not the focus of the video

@CPorter 3 жыл бұрын

@@PartTimeExplorer I'm not saying it is. Just an observation, though now looking at the way i worded stuff I can see how it comes off worse for wear or arrogant. For that I'm sorry. Good musical choices though. Especially that Ada Jones one

@PartTimeExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

@@CPorter No worries- it's always hard to read tone online. The music was definitely dubbed, but we couldn't get around that otherwise it would jump whenever we cut the shot.

@CPorter 3 жыл бұрын

@@PartTimeExplorer indeed it is. I assume that machine is part of your collection, am I correct? I've always loved those tabletop and portable ones. So easy to use and very fun to service.

@bryansteele832 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder why this was removed from RDR2?

@David-fm6go 3 жыл бұрын

When I can get a decent gpu for my new Ryzen build I want to play red dead and red dead II.

@pandelosu 9 ай бұрын

if the guy guesses ...spot on...shouldn't all others lose a dice?

@nickmerino9440 3 жыл бұрын

In RDR this game was SO EASY

@RandomFandom1 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if when you catch a liar, you get their die, that way the odds stay high, instead of diminishing as people lose die.

@FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

My guessing is 1850s or 1870s. 14:01

@SQUAREHEADSAM1912 3 жыл бұрын

Probably the 1870s-80s is my guess

@theunfortunategeneral 3 жыл бұрын

Use to play with cash (or "cash") instead of removing dices.

@holycal7218 Жыл бұрын

@Medleyboy Жыл бұрын

I wanna know why liars dice isn't in red dead 2

@EricDG326 3 жыл бұрын

I think there should be a rule for no calling on the first cycle. The odds of someone guessing correctly on the first turn between all 15 dice starting on the table is staggeringly low, so of course you can say they’re lying and almost certainly be correct. That’s not strategy or playing a game, that’s just unfair. Let the players bluff a bit and throw off the others with their bids. This presents its own problems, but still.

@PowerStar004 2 жыл бұрын

I think you're missing something. When you call liar, it doesn't have to be anything but exactly right. For example, suppose I said one one, the lowest possible bid. If you call liar and there are zero ones, you'd be correct. But if there is AT LEAST one one, you'd be the one losing a die. You'd lose a die if there are two ones, three ones, etc. The person doesn't have to be spot on, they are correct as long as they are not bidding TOO MUCH.

@armored.heathen13 3 жыл бұрын

Lenny?

@PartTimeExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

Lenny mah boy!

@neilonaniet Жыл бұрын

YNNEL???!!

@FalconKPD 3 жыл бұрын

I got better.

@nseriousget8165 Жыл бұрын

they have explained the rules, but are playing the game in a stupid way, calling results right away is no better than wild guessing. better way would be to go at leest one turn, letting eweryone say what they have to say, collect more information, and than make a decision, the more turns game goes the more information you have, and the better decision you can make. great depiction is scene from pirates of the caribien, where the stakes are really high, and no one wants to loose

@RandomFandom1 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine this game with 20 sided dies. Lol.

@SlandersPete 3 жыл бұрын

Not a fan of the "spot on" call. It makes things too complicated.

@mingodingo 2 жыл бұрын

I don't care for the "spot on" rule because it is antithetical to the 'liar' part of liar's dice. There's no real play or counterplay to a 'spot on' call. If you call it right you didn't catch someone in a bluff. If you call it wrong it adds nothing to the game because you hoisted yourself.

@tlr0512345 3 жыл бұрын

what happens when u all have 0 dice left

@Justme-pt1ld 3 жыл бұрын

You lose.

@fan9775 3 жыл бұрын

That is mathematically impossible.

@brettonjohansen1619 3 жыл бұрын

K but why are they saying obvious bluffs constantly its just moronic

@amedeoconta 3 жыл бұрын

The don't "lose a dice" they lose a "die". It means one single "dice".

@Ramdileo_sys 2 ай бұрын

I show this to 8 of this "persons" 😒.. you know.. kids from the current "loser generation" that don't even understating if they are man or woman.. and decide to offend every man and woman of the world forcing us to call ourselves "persons" instead of what we really are since we grow up😤..... anyway...... I show this to them and none a single one of then understating sh$%^it about this game😂..... 3 of them.. not even get to the part at 4:15 of the explanation🤨....... they all were like... what the fu%^$ck is he talking about??🤣........... yeah.. say... "attention span of a mosquito".. is offend the mosquitoes dude! 😏