However once youįind that banking will lead to you winning we recommend doing so, unless you just want to show off to Bill. The game doesn't automatically end your turn when you hypothetically reach the threshold,īecause we've found it to be more fun to manually bank for the win and in the cases were we want to see how far we can push our already sizable lead. The game ends once either player ends their turn with more than 10.000 points banked. A player can thus continue indefinitely as long as they never farkle. Any points they already earned before throwing the hot dice are kept as part of the accumulating round totalĪnd are risked along with any new melds made with the hot dice. Such a player can now, if they choose, pick up all six dice they haveĪnd throw them again, effectively restarting their turn. In the case a player can form melds from all the dice they threw they have thrown 'Hot dice'. The key of the game comes in finding when you should risk the farkle and throw again, and when you should call it quits and bank your points. With every throw the odds of farkling grow higher, and the player risks more and more points in the process. When a player farkles their turn is over, play passes to their opponent,Īnd any unbanked points earned during the round are lost. If there are no melds on the table after a player throws their dice they have 'farkled'. Any formed melds must contain dice obtained from a single throw. You have a set of two ones worth 200, and a separate set of one worth 100 for a total of 300. If you score two ones in one throw and set them aside throwing a one in the next throw does not mean you have three ones, it means

The player's turn ends and they pass all dice to their opponent who takes their turn.Īll dice in a meld must come from one throw When a player banks any points earned during the round are added to the grand total and are safe for the Players who decide not to take that risk can instead bank. Players may now roll any remaining dice not already put aside in hopes of being able to make more melds, risking the chance of farkling (see below) and scoring nothing.

Throw, but beyond that is free in what dice they put aside or throw again. A player must put aside at least one scoring die each Once the dice have been rolled the player may put aside any dice that form scoring melds (see melds below). A player starts their turn by throwing all six dice. Only includes the standard melds common to most variations we could find. The version we have here is among the simpler ones, and As with many games Farkle is played in numerous regions with dozens of variations. The play is passedīack and forth as players attempt to gather point-scoring melds while evaluating if the risk of rolling a farkle and losing all unbanked points is worth the lure of getting FARKLE is a push-your-luck game in which the objective is to be the first player to accumulate 10.000 points.

Printable farkle game rules