Looking back at my blog entries, we last played this game on March 31, 2008... so it has been almost exactly a year since it has seen that table! We had a gaming group meeting yesterday (Saturday evening), and this was the first game we took out.
It is actually quite fun, and a 4 player game took about 20 minutes or so... it makes for a nice filler game or starter game. It is based on an earl 1970's game by Richard Borg named "Liar's Dice", which he in turn based on a game originally from Spain in the 16th Century. It is believed the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro brought the original game to Spain from South America, and that it might have originated with the Inca! So all in all, it is quite an interesting game with a nice bit of history.
To make this game even more interesting and have an even more unique back story, it was featured in the 2006 film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. In the film it was called "Liar's Dice" and is essentially the same game with more simplified rules.
This is a great game of betting and bluffing and trying to convince other players you either have or don't have the call you have made. Once you get a game or two in under your belt you will quickly catch on and this game will become a lot of fun.
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