Liar's Dice
Play Liar’s Dice free online — a game of bluffing and probability. Read your hidden dice, raise the bid or call the computer a liar, and be the last player still holding dice. No download or sign-up.
Overview
Liar's Dice is a bluffing game played with hidden dice. You and a computer opponent each start with five dice, rolled in secret. Players take turns raising a bid about what is on the table, and the last player still holding dice wins.
You can see your own five dice and nothing else. Every bid you make is a claim about ten dice when you only know five of them.
Bids
A bid is a quantity and a face — for example “three 4s” — and it claims that at least that many dice on the whole table show that face.
Ones are wild. A 1 counts toward every face, so a bid of three 4s is satisfied by any combination of 4s and 1s totalling three or more.
Raising
Each bid must beat the one before it, in one of two ways:
- A higher quantity, at any face.
- The same quantity at a higher face.
You cannot lower either number, and the quantity can never exceed the total dice still in play. As dice are lost that ceiling drops, which squeezes the range of legal bids as the game goes on.
Challenging
Instead of raising you may challenge the previous bid. All dice are revealed and the claimed face is counted, wild 1s included.
- If the count meets or exceeds the bid, the bid was true and the challenger loses a die.
- If it falls short, the bidder loses a die.
Note the tie: a bid of three 4s against exactly three is true. The bidder needs the count to reach the number, not pass it.
Losing dice
The loser of a challenge drops one die permanently and all remaining dice are rerolled for a new round. A player reduced to zero dice is eliminated, and the other player wins.
Losing a die cuts both ways: you have less information about the table, but there is also less on the table to account for, so bids get smaller and challenges get sharper.
Controls
Set a quantity and a face, then Bid — the controls only offer legal raises, and a suggested next bid is preselected for you. Challenge is available once a bid is on the table. When a challenge resolves, both hands are revealed with the counted dice highlighted before the next round is rolled.