Greedy is a high-scoring game in which players roll dice for points. As well as being a fantastic after dinner game, it is also great for travel, pubs or holidays as you only need a few dice in your pocket, some paper and a pen (and it’s fabulous for kids who need to practice their maths!). You roll 5 dice, move aside only the dice you want to use for points, then re-roll the remaining dice. As long as you keep scoring you can keep rolling (if you’re feeling lucky!); your points will accumulate as long as you keep rolling valid throws. You can stop at any point, but if none of the dice you roll score you lose your turn and any points you made during that turn. Download the instructions How to play the Danish dice game Greedy here or check out our wooden dice set, which also comes with details on how to place the liar dice game Mia!
OBJECT: To get scoring dice on every roll, and to be the first player to get more than 10,000 points.
YOU WILL NEED: 5 dice, a shaker and pen and paper
GET STARTED: Each player must roll at least 400 points during one turn to get into the game. The player’s game-entry score and subsequent scores are added up below their name on a piece of paper.
PLAY:
- The first player rolls five dice and decides which dice they want to use for scoring. If they don’t roll any 1s, 5s or other scoring combinations, their turn is over and they must pass the dice to the next player.
- You don’t have to remove all the dice that count on your roll, only the ones you want to use for scoring.
- If you roll no scoring dice, your turn is over and you lose all the points you rolled on that turn.
- You may stop rolling at any time, take your points and pass the dice on.
- Only 1s and 5s count by themselves. Other numbers can count as three-of-a-kind, straights or full houses – but not pairs; any of these combinations must be rolled in one go.
- When one player reaches 10,000 points (or any final score you decide on), all other players get one more turn to try to beat them.
- The highest score then wins the game; the more players you have the lower you might want to decide the winning score to be!
SCORING:
5s = 50 points each
1s = 100 points each
SCORING COMBINATIONS:
- If a single 1 is rolled…………………..100
- If two 1s are rolled…………………….200
- If three 1s are rolled…………………1,000
- If a single 5 is rolled……………………50
- If two 5s are rolled…………………….100
- If three 2s are rolled…………………..200
- If three 3s are rolled…………………..300
- If three 4s are rolled…………………..400
- If three 5s are rolled…………………..500
- If three 6s are rolled…………………..600
- 4 of a kind (must be in one roll) e.g. 4x2s = 1500 points
- 5 of a kind (must be in one roll) e.g. 5x2s = 2000 points
- A straight (must be in one roll) (1,2,3,4,5 or 2,3,4,5,6) = 2000 points
- A full house (must be in one roll) e.g. 3x4s & 2x5s = 2500 points
