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What are some strategies for winning in Liar's Dice?
Just started playing liar's dice at a pub in Oslo, lost almost every hand. Tried bluffing like mad and playing it safe, neither works. Starting to think the dice are rigged or I'm missing some rule. Is there a real strategy, or is it just luck?
A winning strategy is to bid on probability, not on bluffing. The dice are luck, but the bidding is a game of math and reading people. Track how many dice are in play, then divide by 3.
That is your expected number for any face, since 1s count as wild and each die has a 1-in-3 chance of showing what you name. With 6 dice, you expect 2 of a kind, so bidding 2 is safe and 3 is a coin flip. The biggest mistake is overestimating your own hand.
People think bluffing is the core, it is a tiebreaker for when you have nothing. The odds of rolling a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 with 6 dice are all equal, about 2 expected, so don't favour one number. The odds of winning a whole hand depend on how many are left, but if you bid just above what you expect and never push a number you can't back, you'll win more than you lose.
It's not purely luck, the best players win long term. And forget the two-dice 7 talk, that's craps, and 9-sided dice don't exist in standard play, we use d6s.
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The winning strategy is probability first, bluffing second. Count the dice, divide by three, bid one above that. Bluff only when you're cornered, and keep it low. People think big lies win, they mostly get called.
25 years behind the table. I've seen every system fail, and yours will too.
When you're down to two dice and the bid is high, call it. With fewer than 6 dice in play, the odds drop below half. I once bid 5 sixes with only 4 dice out, lost that hand instantly.
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Bluffing works only as a last resort. I once bid 3 twos with zero in hand, next player raised because they had two, and we got away with it. Won 11 of 14 hands bidding exactly what I had, but 2 of 9 when bluffed. So yes, a small early bluff can steal a round, just don't make it a habit.
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Not pure luck, but the dice randomness is bigger than people admit. The real edge is reading opponents. In a 5-player game I tracked a guy who always bid one higher, he lost 8 of 10 hands because he never counted the dice. And there's no hardest number, the dice have no memory, a 6 is as likely after five 6s as after none. A d12 is called a d12, a d5 doesn't exist as a standard die, but that's irrelevant here.