Zilch

When Petra lived with us, she taught me the most fun dice game. We would have so much fun, it’s hard to believe that 6 dice and a paper keeping score could be so entertaining. Today online, through Good Experience, I found a very close relative to the dice game Petra taught me, and it’s called Zilch.

In Petra’s version, one’s are 100 points, fives are 50. If you get three of a kind, say, 3 sixes, that will be 600. Three ones are 1000. Straights are 1500 and since you used all six die, you roll again. The first one to 10,000 points wins. Also in Petra’s version, you had to have at least 350 points before deciding not to roll again, fearing to lose your turn.

Play Zilch HERE