Tavern Dice
The roll is good. The question is whether you stop.
Text a game
Make the opening move, then send it. They can answer whenever, and the match stays here while either of you is away.
Keep the scoring dice, bank the points, or throw again and risk the whole turn — against four regulars who each stop at a different point.
Choose Bohemian rules or Classic Farkle, then pick who is across the table at The Broken Pipe: Anezka the cellarwoman banks early and never chases, Hanus the scribe plays the odds, Marketa the drover pushes her luck, and Bednar the cooper is the house. Straights and multiples change what a throw is worth, but the pressure is the same at every table: deciding when enough is enough.
The prompt keeps the table honest: roll, keep, reckon, bank. On a phone the table is the screen and every scoring combination is a button. Nothing is wagered; the only thing on the table is whether you stop.
What is different here
- The keep is strict. A selection is accepted only if every die in it scores, so 'reckon' lists the combinations in front of you and each one is a real move — on the phone, a button. There is no tapping dice; you name what you are keeping.
- The regulars are not difficulty ratings. Each is a way of playing: how many dice they set aside and how much they want before they stop. Bednar keeps one die and throws five where Anezka would take both fives — and it is the throwing, not the banking, that makes him the house.
What you will see
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KEPT
ON THE TABLE
Roll, keep the scorers, and bank before the bust takes it all.
How this command behaves
- Supports two players
- Save and resume your game
- Track your statistics and high scores
- Play online against other players
- Runs in the browser; nothing to install
- Playable entirely from the keyboard
Start it from the prompt
Usage
tavern-dice [savename]Aliases
tavern / farkle / dice
Where it came from
Farkle is a folk dice game of uncertain age, played across Europe and North America under many names — Zilch, Ten Thousand, Greed, Hot Dice — with house rules that vary from one table to the next. The version here calls itself Bohemian for its straights and its company, and stays otherwise plain: six dice, ones and fives, threes of a kind, and the choice to throw again.
Ready when you are. The terminal will open directly into Tavern Dice.
Run $ tavern-dice →