Liar's Dice / Bluff / Perudo / Dudo - How to Play 🎲 and Why It's a Gem 💎

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This game goes by many names - Liar's Dice in English, Bluff in German, Perudo or Dudo in Spanish - and there are even more ways to play it. At its core, players shake their dice, slam their dice cup on the table, and peek under. Then it's around the table, guessing/bidding on how many of a particular value there is under everyone's cups. You'll either have to raise the bid, or challenge the last bid, with the loser of the challenge losing dice. Out of dice, out of the game! Liar's Dice first came out in the 1980s from Milton Bradley, and won the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) as Bluff in 1993.
I didn't get into it, but there's debate as to whether it was an original invention from the 1980s by the listed designer, Richard Borg, or if it was based on a much-older public-domain game from South America. My takeaway is that there were a number of similar dice games, some even called Liar's Dice, and the particulars of the Borg design probably got ported back by players of those public-domain games. Time passes, memories get fuzzy, and it's easy to assume the old games were always like that. I'm just an amateur board game historian, though.
00:00 Intro ▶️
02:43 How to Play 🎲
10:19 Why It's a Gem 💎
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@sergioruiz1235 Жыл бұрын

You can mitigate a little the fixed turn order nature of the game by letting the starting player choose the direction for the current round (clockwise or anticlockwise). Some people call this rule "Reversa" and I tend to include it in my games since it adds a little more variety without extra complications. Thanks, Darryl for your videos; I enjoyed this one a lot.

@DonAranda Жыл бұрын

Love your lengthy discussion and commentary.

@upandawaygames Жыл бұрын

Excellently presented! We play with just the cups and dice, with aces wild, but if the very first bidder in a round makes a bid about aces, that means aces are not wild for that round. So there's a little variability. I can tell you're not a people reader because you omit an entire dimension in the playing of these games. Some people are incredible readers of body language, of intonation, of phrasing, of tells, and can after just a short time figure out when you're lying or not just based on the signals you give off. This is a big part of these games as well. I find it can be a little dangerous to introduce this game because sometimes people will love it so much that they don't want to play anything else for the rest of the day or evening whereas after about a half hour or so I'm normally ready to move on. This game is fun at tournament conventions because everyone shaking their cupts at the same time creates quite an interesting sound.

@BoardGems Жыл бұрын

I certainly consider myself a people reader! Otherwise, I wouldn't be steering people toward Cockroach Poker which is even more about reading people. 🙂

@rzhang86 Жыл бұрын

How do you rate Skull compared to the other bluffing games you suggested?

@BoardGems Жыл бұрын

That is a great question, and I'm a little embarrassed I didn't mention Skull in the video. In some ways it is the perfect replacement to Liar's Dice in that it also can be played outdoors! It's a personal thing, but I didn't care a whole lot for Skull when I played it years ago, which is why I didn't think of it - but I should have. Some people adore the game.

@entrecruzado Жыл бұрын

I have several games that are a modified version, like House of Borgia or Coyote... That Simpsons version looks nice but super expensive for what it is right now.

@BoardGems Жыл бұрын

I have Coyote and have not played it yet! The newest version is even in the same Heidelbär line of games as Spicy. And I agree, I wouldn't spend much on Liar's Dice, even a sweet Simpsons version.

@keatonhawkswell5714 Жыл бұрын

I think I prefer this over cockroach poker but it’s pretty close. Cockroach poker is a great game for breaking the ice with a new group but I’ve had a few negative experiences. People can often feel like they’re being “picked on”, but this is a bit of a player issue more than a game issue.

@BoardGems Жыл бұрын

That's interesting. I've never seen that problem personally, and I've introduced it to a lot of kids, who might be sensitive to being picked on! I guess that's a side-effect of being able to get out of turn order for challenges. Yes, it's more targeted, but it also breaks up frequent interactions with the same two people, and I like that.