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Pub Style Trivia
Pick a category, race the timer, top the leaderboard.
2-20 · 20-45 min · Easy
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Truth or Dare
Classic group truths and dares — tap for the next prompt.
3-12 · 15-45 min · Easy
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Would You Rather
Impossible choices, instant arguments.
3-20 · 15-40 min · Easy
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Never Have I Ever
Hold up fingers, lose them when you're guilty.
3-15 · 15-40 min · Easy
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Scorekeeper
Universal score tracker for any game on the table.
2-12 · Any · Easy
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AI Rule Judge
Settle disputes with an impartial AI verdict.
Any · 1 min · Easy
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Texas Hold'em Poker
The home-game classic. Deal, bet, bluff, repeat.
3-10 · 60-180 min · Medium
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Blackjack (21)
Beat the dealer to 21 without busting.
2-7 + dealer · 30-90 min · Easy
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Five Dice
Five dice. Thirteen categories. Roll for the five-of-a-kind.
1-8 · 20-40 min · Easy
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Liar's Dice
Bid, bluff, and call out the liars.
2-8 · 20-40 min · Medium
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Bunco
Wildly social rolling game — perfect for big groups.
4-12 (multiples of 4 ideal) · 45-90 min · Easy
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Spades
Partnership trick-taking. Bid honest, take your tricks.
4 (partners) · 45-90 min · Medium
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Hearts
Avoid the hearts. Dodge the Queen of Spades.
4 · 30-60 min · Medium
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Crazy Eights
Match suits and ranks. Last card down? Call it!
2-10 · 15-30 min · Easy
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Charades
Act it out. No words, no sounds — just laughs.
4-20 (teams) · 30-60 min · Easy
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Pictionary
Draw it out. Hope your teammates aren't art critics.
4-16 (teams) · 30-60 min · Easy
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Mafia / Werewolf
Social deduction. Find the killer before they find you.
6-20 · 30-90 min · Medium
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Catch Phrase
Describe the phrase before time runs out — pass it fast.
4-16 (teams) · 20-40 min · Easy
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Forehead
Hold the phone to your forehead. Your friends shout clues. Guess before time runs out.
3-20 (teams) · 10-30 min · Easy
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Cornhole (Bean Bag Toss)
Toss bags at the hole. First to 21 with cancellation scoring wins.
2-4 · 20-40 min · 5 min setup · Ages 8+ · Easy
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Horseshoes
Ring the stake for 3, closest for 1. First to 21.
2-4 · 20-45 min · 10 min setup · Ages 10+ · Easy
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Bocce Ball
Get your balls closest to the pallino. First to 12.
2-8 · 20-40 min · 5 min setup · Ages 6+ · Easy
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Ladder Toss (Ladder Golf)
Wrap bolas on rungs — top=3, mid=2, bottom=1. Exactly 21 wins.
2-4 · 15-30 min · 5 min setup · Ages 8+ · Easy
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Kubb (Viking Chess)
Knock over the enemy kubbs, then the king. Warm-up warfare.
2-12 · 20-45 min · 10 min setup · Ages 8+ · Medium
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Washer Toss
Toss washers into the cup or the box. First to 21.
2-4 · 15-30 min · 5 min setup · Ages 8+ · Easy
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Ring Toss
Land rings on the pegs. Simple, addictive, kid-friendly.
1-6 · 10-20 min · 3 min setup · Ages 4+ · Easy
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Kan Jam
Team frisbee into the can. Instant win with a slot-shot.
4 · 20-40 min · 3 min setup · Ages 10+ · Medium
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Disc Golf (Frisbee Golf)
Golf with frisbees. Fewest throws to complete the course wins.
1-6 · 45-90 min · 0 setup (course) · Ages 8+ · Medium
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Molkky (Finnish Skittles)
Knock down numbered pins. First to exactly 50 wins.
2-12 · 20-40 min · 3 min setup · Ages 8+ · Medium
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Badminton
Fast rallies over the net. Rally scoring to 21, win by 2.
2-4 · 15-30 min · 10 min setup · Ages 6+ · Easy
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Croquet
Mallet the ball through the wickets. First to hit both stakes wins.
2-6 · 45-90 min · 15 min setup · Ages 8+ · Medium
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Volleyball
Bump, set, spike. Rally scoring to 25.
6-12 · 30-60 min · 15 min setup · Ages 10+ · Medium
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Kickball
Baseball with feet. Grade-school gold.
8-20 · 45-60 min · 10 min setup · Ages 6+ · Easy
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Wiffle Ball
Backyard baseball with a plastic ball you can't hurt anyone with.
2-10 · 30-60 min · 10 min setup · Ages 6+ · Easy
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Ultimate Frisbee
Non-contact team frisbee. Pass to score in the end zone.
6-14 · 45-90 min · 5 min setup · Ages 10+ · Medium
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Capture the Flag
Steal the enemy flag, run it home, don't get tagged.
6-30 · 20-60 min · 10 min setup · Ages 7+ · Easy
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Tug of War
Two teams, one rope, all the yelling.
4-20 · 5-15 min · 2 min setup · Ages 6+ · Easy
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Sack Race
Hop to the finish line without face-planting.
4-20 · 10-20 min · 5 min setup · Ages 5+ · Easy
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Three-Legged Race
Pair up, tie your legs, learn communication the hard way.
4-20 · 10-20 min · 5 min setup · Ages 6+ · Easy
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Giant Jenga
Pull a block, don't topple the tower. Now yard-sized.
2-8 · 10-30 min · 10 min setup · Ages 6+ · Medium
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Giant Connect Four
The classic, but you can see it from across the yard.
2 · 10-20 min · 5 min setup · Ages 6+ · Easy
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Giant Crazy Eights
Oversized matching card game — the public-domain ancestor of the color-card classic.
2-10 · 20-40 min · 3 min setup · Ages 7+ · Easy
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Giant Checkers
Classic checkers, backyard-scale.
2 · 20-40 min · 5 min setup · Ages 6+ · Medium
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Giant Dominoes
Chain-match dominoes, oversized edition.
2-4 · 30-60 min · 5 min setup · Ages 8+ · Easy
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Giant Ker-Plunk
Pull sticks without dropping marbles. Yard-sized suspense.
2-4 · 10-20 min · 5 min setup · Ages 6+ · Easy
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Giant Five Dice
Five-dice scoring game, oversized. Uses the built-in scorecard.
2-8 · 20-40 min · 3 min setup · Ages 8+ · Easy
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Water Balloon Fight
Fill balloons. Divide teams. Get wet.
4-30 · 15-30 min · 20 min prep · Ages 5+ · Easy
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Slip and Slide
Wet plastic on a slope. Physics does the rest.
1-10 · 30+ min play · 10 min setup · Ages 5+ · Easy
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Freeze Tag
Tag = frozen. A teammate must crawl between your legs to unfreeze you.
4-20 · 10-30 min · 2 min setup · Ages 5+ · Easy
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Red Light Green Light
Freeze on red, run on green. Move on red = out.
3-30 · 10-20 min · 1 min setup · Ages 4+ · Easy
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Simon Says
Follow the command — but only if 'Simon says'.
3-20 · 10-20 min · 0 setup · Ages 4+ · Easy
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Duck Duck Goose
Tap heads, pick a goose, race around the circle.
5-15 · 10-20 min · 0 setup · Ages 4+ · Easy
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Musical Chairs (Outdoor)
One less chair than players. When music stops, grab a seat.
4-15 · 15-30 min · 5 min setup · Ages 5+ · Easy
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Egg and Spoon Race
Balance an egg on a spoon. Don't drop it. Race to the finish.
4-20 · 10-20 min · 5 min setup · Ages 5+ · Easy
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Obstacle Course
Build a course from whatever's in the yard. Race the clock.
2-20 · 20-60 min · 20 min setup · Ages 6+ · Medium
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Scavenger Hunt
List of items or clues. First team to find them all wins.
4-30 · 30-60 min · 20 min prep · Ages 5+ · Easy
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Spikeball (Roundnet)
Slam the ball off a low round net. Fast, sweaty, addictive.
4 · 20-40 min · 5 min setup · Ages 12+ · Medium
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Hammerschlagen
Drive your nail into the stump. Last one hammering wins.
2-8 · 20-40 min · 10 min setup · Ages 16+ · Medium
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Glow-in-the-Dark Cornhole
Standard cornhole with glow tape on the boards and bags. Best after dusk.
2-4 · 20-40 min · 10 min setup · Ages 8+ · Easy
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Flashlight Tag
Freeze tag in the dark — shining a flashlight on you counts as a tag.
4-20 · 20-45 min · 2 min setup · Ages 8+ · Easy
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Night Frisbee
LED frisbee tossing after sunset. Ultimate or freestyle.
2-10 · 20-45 min · 3 min setup · Ages 8+ · Easy
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Glow Bocce Ball
Bocce ball with glow-in-the-dark balls. Same rules, more magic.
2-8 · 20-40 min · 5 min setup · Ages 6+ · Easy
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Catan
Trade resources, build roads and cities, first to 10 victory points wins.
3-4 · 60-120 min · Medium
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Ticket to Ride
Collect matching train cards, claim colored routes, connect the cities on your secret tickets.
2-5 · 30-60 min · Easy
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Pandemic
Cooperative — the team wins or loses together. Discover cures for all 4 diseases before outbreaks spiral out of control.
2-4 · 45-60 min · Medium
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Dominion
The original deckbuilder — buy cards from a shared market to build a scoring engine.
2-4 · 30-45 min · Medium
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Agricola
17th-century subsistence farming worker-placement — feed your family or take begging cards.
1-5 · 90-150 min · Hard
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Terraforming Mars
Rival corporations transform Mars — raise oxygen, temperature, and oceans to make the planet livable.
1-5 · 90-150 min · Hard
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Wingspan
Attract stunning birds to your forest, grassland, and wetland reserves. Engine-builder with beautiful art.
1-5 · 40-70 min · Medium
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7 Wonders
Simultaneous card drafting across 3 ages — build wonders, armies, science, and civilizations.
3-7 · 30-45 min · Medium
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Azul
Draft colored tiles from shared factories, complete patterns on your board — but every tile you can't place costs you.
2-4 · 30-45 min · Easy
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Splendor
Renaissance gem merchant — collect gems, buy discount cards, attract nobles, race to 15 prestige points.
2-4 · 30 min · Easy
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Codenames
Spymasters give one-word clues to reveal your team's agents.
4-8+ · 15-30 min · Easy
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Dixit
Whimsical art cards + creative clues. Guess the storyteller.
3-6 · 30 min · Easy
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Telestrations
Sketch, pass, guess, pass — telephone with drawings.
4-8 · 30 min · Easy
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Wavelength
Read your teammate's mind on a hidden dial.
2-12 · 30-45 min · Easy
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Coup
Bluff-based influence stealing. Lose both cards = out.
2-6 · 15 min · Easy
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Exploding Kittens
Draw cards. Don't draw the kitten. Or use a defuse.
2-5 · 15 min · Easy
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Sushi Go!
Draft sushi cards. Score combos over 3 rounds.
2-5 · 15-20 min · Easy
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Bananagrams
Fast Scrabble-without-a-board. Race to use all your tiles.
1-8 · 15-20 min · Easy
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Taboo
Get your team to guess the word without saying the forbidden 5.
4-10+ · 30 min · Easy
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Carcassonne
Tile-laying medieval landscape. Claim roads, cities, and fields.
2-5 · 30-45 min · Easy
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Sequence
Play a card, cover the matching board space. 2 sequences of 5 wins.
2-12 · 30 min · Easy
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Scrabble
Word tiles on a board. Big scores for premium squares.
2-4 · 45-90 min · Medium
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Monopoly
Buy, trade, build. Bankrupt everyone else. The classic.
2-8 · 60-180 min · Easy
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Clue (Cluedo)
Whodunit deduction: room, weapon, suspect. Solve the murder.
3-6 · 45-60 min · Easy
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Sorry!
Chase-and-slide pawn race. Sorry cards send opponents home.
2-4 · 30-45 min · Easy
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Trouble
Pop-o-matic dice race. Roll a 6 to leave home.
2-4 · 20-30 min · Easy
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Connect Four
Drop discs, connect 4 in a row before your opponent.
2 · 10 min · Easy
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Battleship
Hidden fleets. Call coordinates. Sink your opponent.
2 · 20-40 min · Easy
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The Game of Life
Spin the wheel, live a life, retire with the most money.
2-6 · 45-60 min · Easy
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Phase 10
Race through 10 sequential phases (sets, runs, colors).
2-6 · 60-90 min · Medium
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Skip-Bo
Build 1-12 sequential piles from your stockpile.
2-6 · 30-60 min · Easy
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Rummy 500
Meld sets and runs. First to 500 points wins.
2-8 · 30-60 min · Easy
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Canasta
Build 7-card 'canastas'. Partnership melding classic.
2-4 (partners) · 60-90 min · Medium
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Gin Rummy
Two-player rummy. Meld runs/sets, knock or go gin.
2 · 30-45 min · Easy
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War
Flip cards, higher wins. When you tie, go to WAR.
2 · 20-40 min · Easy
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Go Fish
Ask for cards to make sets of 4.
2-6 · 15-30 min · Easy
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Old Maid
Match pairs. Don't get stuck with the Old Maid.
2-8 · 10-20 min · Easy
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Spit (Speed)
Frantic real-time card-shedding.
2 · 15-30 min · Easy
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Crazy Eights (Classic)
Match suit or rank. Eights are wild.
2-7 · 15-30 min · Easy
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31 (Blitz / Scat)
Get closest to 31 in one suit. Knock or lose a life.
2-9 · 20-40 min · Easy
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Spoons
Race to 4-of-a-kind, then grab a spoon before you're spoon-less.
3-13 · 10-20 min · Easy
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Snap
Yell SNAP! when two cards match.
2-8 · 10-20 min · Easy
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Speed
Two-player real-time shedding. Play cards ±1 as fast as possible.
2 · 10-20 min · Easy
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Farkle
Push-your-luck dice. Score or lose it all.
2-8 · 30-45 min · Easy
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Left Right Center (LRC)
3 dice, 3 chips. Last chip standing wins the pot.
3-12 · 10-20 min · Easy
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10,000 (Ten Thousand)
Similar to Farkle — score dice combos, race to 10,000.
2-8 · 30-60 min · Easy
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Beetle
Roll to draw a beetle piece by piece.
2-6 · 15-30 min · Easy
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Ship, Captain, Crew
Roll a 6-5-4 in order. Then highest of remaining dice wins the pot.
2-8 · 15-30 min · Easy
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Balut
Yahtzee-like scoring, Filipino tradition, 7 categories × 4 rounds.
2-8 · 45-60 min · Medium
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Mexico
Roll 2 dice for a 'Mexico' score. Lowest loses a life.
3-12 · 10-20 min · Easy
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Midnight (1-4-24)
Set aside a 1 and a 4. Score the remaining 4 dice.
2-8 · 10-20 min · Easy
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Greed
Farkle variant — push your luck to 10,000.
2-8 · 30-60 min · Easy
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Threes
Score low. 3s count as zero.
2-8 · 20-30 min · Easy
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Pig
Roll a die. Keep going or bank. Roll a 1 = lose it all.
2-8 · 10-20 min · Easy
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Martinetti (Ohio)
Roll dice to make numbers 1-12 in sequence.
2-8 · 20-40 min · Easy
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Trivial Pursuit
Answer trivia across 6 categories. Collect all 6 wedges to win.
2-6 (or teams) · 45-90 min · Medium
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