Farkle

Keep scoring dice and bank your points before a roll with no score ends your turn.

Farkle

Players

2–4

Table

Small Game Table

Board

Farkle Board

Getting a board

Craft a Farkle Board and fit it into a Small Game Table. Place matching Game Chairs facing the table, then take a seat.

Materials

• 1 ×Bone meal
• 7 ×Any planks
• 1 ×Lime wool

How to play

Open the fitted board to make your moves. How to play in the side tray gives you the same lessons with illustrations inside the game.

Farkle goal

Farkle goal

Score 10,000 points. First score at least 500 to enter the game.

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Bank points safely, or keep rolling for a bigger turn before someone reaches 10,000.

Roll six dice

Roll six dice

Roll all six dice at the start of a turn.

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After each scoring choice, roll the dice that remain active.

Know the basic scores

Know the basic scores

Ones score 100, fives score 50, and triple ones score 300.

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Other triples score face value times 100. Four, five, or six of a kind score more.

Special combinations

Special combinations

Four, five, and six of a kind score 1,000, 2,000, and 3,000.

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A straight, three pairs, or four of a kind plus a pair scores 1,500.

More scoring sets

More scoring sets

Two triples score 2,500 points; three pairs also score 1,500.

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Read the whole roll before choosing dice so you do not break a scoring combination.

Choose one legal set

Choose one legal set

Every die selected in one move must contribute to that move's score.

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Do not mix a scoring die with an unrelated die from the same roll.

Keep scoring dice

Keep scoring dice

Select scoring dice, then roll only the dice left on the table.

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Every selected die must contribute to the score. Unselected dice remain active.

Bank a turn

Bank a turn

Bank your turn score when the points are worth the risk.

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Banking adds the turn score to your total and ends your turn.

A Farkle busts

A Farkle busts

If a roll has no scoring dice, you lose every point saved this turn.

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The turn ends with zero points for that turn. Your banked total stays safe.

Hot dice

Hot dice

If all six dice score, you may roll all six again and add to the same turn total.

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Hot dice keeps the same turn total active. You may bank instead; another roll can still bust.

Finish the game

Finish the game

When someone reaches 10,000, everyone else gets one final turn.

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After the final round, the highest total wins. A tied highest score is a draw.

Rules in more detail

Keep same-roll sets

Keep same-roll sets

A kept die cannot combine with later dice to make a new triple.

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The old one and the two new ones are separate scoring moves, not one triple.

Exact scoring combinations

Kept dice	Points
Single one / five	100 / 50
Three ones	300
Three of another value	Value × 100
Four / five / six of a kind	1,000 / 2,000 / 3,000
Straight from one to six	1,500
Three pairs	1,500
Four of a kind plus a pair	1,500
Two triples	2,500

Every selected die must contribute to the score. Sets belong to the same roll: previously kept dice cannot combine with a later roll to make a triple.

Entry and the final round

Bank at least five hundred in one turn to enter the score table. Once entered, smaller valid scores can be banked on later turns. Banking ten thousand or more begins the final round and gives the remaining players a last chance to beat the leading total. Highest score wins after those turns; a tie is a draw. A farkle loses the current unbanked turn score.

Keep playing

Use Rematch after the result to play again. To pause an unfinished match, the table owner can remove and keep its board.

See seats and solo play for multiplayer and Play alone, or item stakes if you want to agree on a pot.