Niu Niu (Dice)

🎲 Dice games 👥 2+ people 🍺 Drinking level 2/5 ⚡ Difficulty Moderate ⭐ Recommended 💬 Highly interactive

Game rules

Preparation: 2 or more people; each person has five dice and a dice cup. It is first agreed that each person can re-roll 0 or 1 times, and the player with the lowest card type in each round will receive a unit penalty.

  1. Everyone rolls the dice at the same time and opens their cups, and finds three of their five dice that add up to exactly 10.
  2. If you can find such a set, you have a “Niu”. Add the remaining two and take the single digit as the card type: 9 is Niu 9, 8 is Niu 8, and so on.
  3. If the remaining two dice total 10, you have “Niu Niu,” which ranks above Niu 9; if no three dice total 10, you have “No Niu,” which ranks below all Niu hands.
  4. If a reroll was agreed before the game, a player with No Niu may reroll all five dice; if they still cannot make 10 after using their reroll, their hand remains No Niu.
  5. Hands rank from highest to lowest as follows: Niu Niu, Niu 9, Niu 8... Niu 1, No Niu. The lowest receives one unit.
  6. If several players tie for the lowest hand, only those players reroll a round until the lowest hand is determined.

Example: 1, 3, and 6 are exactly 10, and the remaining 4 and 5 total 9, so it is Niu 9; 1, 3, 6 combined with 4 and 6 is Niu Niu.