Six dice. One nerve.

Press your luck.
Bank before you bust.

A faithful browser edition of the classic dice game. Play the computer or gather up to six people around one screen.

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Choose your players

Game mode
House rules Advanced

Rules of the table

How to play Zilch

Take a turn

  1. Roll all six dice, then choose at least one scoring die or combination.
  2. Bank the turn's points, or roll the remaining dice and risk losing them all.
  3. If every die scores, you have hot dice: all six return and your turn continues.
  4. A roll with no score is a Zilch. Your unbanked turn score is lost.

Scoring

Single 1
100
Single 5
50
Three 1s
1,000
Three 2s–6s
Face × 100
Each extra matching die
Doubles the multiple
1–2–3–4–5–6 straight
1,000
Three pairs
1,000

Get on the board

Before banking smaller turns, a player must reach the table's opening score in one turn. The standard opening is 1,000 points. After that, any positive scoring turn may be banked.

Win the table

The standard target is 5,000. With Final Chase on, reaching it gives every other player one last turn. The highest score wins, and tied leaders share the result when ties are enabled.

Computer play

Easy uses a simple banking target. Medium responds to the scores and finish line. Hard uses the strongest tested policies from the companion Zilch simulator, including a separate policy when Stealing is on. These are tested strategies, not perfect play.

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