Hooligan Dice Game Rules
Hooligan is a dice game for 2-8 players. A game typically takes 15-25 minutes, and the recommended age is 10+.
Rules for Hooligan: Seven rounds with five dice where you call the row you are going for, and rolling a hooligan scores 20 points.
Setup
Hooligan is an old American bar game played with five dice and a simple sheet giving each player seven rows: ones to sixes plus the hooligan row. It works with two players or more, and a game takes about fifteen minutes.
Traditionally Hooligan is played for a stake, often with the loser buying the next round. At home it works just as well with points or chips.
How to play
Each player gets seven turns, one for every row on the sheet. On your turn you roll all five dice and then have two rerolls. After the first roll you call which row you are going for this turn. Dice that fit the row are set aside, the rest are thrown again.
When your rolls are used up, the result is written in the row you called. Each row can only be used once.
Scoring
The number rows score the count times the number: three fives are worth 15 points, four sixes are worth 24. The hooligan row requires a straight, 1-2-3-4-5, and scores 20 points.
If you miss what you called, you write down whatever you actually have in that row. If nothing fits, it is a zero.
Winning
After seven rounds every sheet is full. Each player adds up their rows, and the highest total wins. A full set of sixes is worth 30 points, so the top number rows matter more than the hooligan itself.
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