Dice make the easiest possible game night: little equipment, short rules and room for everyone. Bunco is the party game among dice games, with several tables playing at once and teams reshuffling between rounds.
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Roll six dice, set the scoring ones aside and stop before an empty roll takes the whole turn.
Roll three dice and count hits on the point number. Land on exactly 15 points to step out, and the last player left loses.
Six rounds with three dice across several tables, where the round number scores points and three of a kind is a bunco.
Roll three dice and race from 1 up to 12 and back again, number by number, before anyone else.
Eleven rounds with two dice, where the goal is to hit the sums 2 through 12 in order, one per round.
Aces feed the pot and sixes go to your neighbour, and whoever holds the last chip must roll three times without a six.
Aces leave the game, twos go left and fives go right, until the very last die decides it all.
Roll three dice and cross off the numbers 1 to 12 twice, in any order you like, before anyone else.
Roll six dice, set scoring dice aside and stop before a farkle wipes out your turn.
Roll two dice, add a chip to the room or pocket the one already there, and hope for the pig or the king.
Everyone owns a number, and every time your number shows up on the dice it costs you a chip.
Roll two dice around a ring of numbered spaces, and empty the jackpot when the sum comes up seven.
Roll the dice and send chips left, right or into the pot. The last player holding chips wins it all.
Roll two dice, shut the tiles that add up to your total, and try to close the whole box.
Hide five dice under your cup, bid on what the whole table shows, and call out the bluffs.
Pass sixes on, drop ones in the middle and be the first player to get rid of every die you hold.
Open rolls with two dice where the lowest roll costs a life and 21 beats everything.
Roll six dice, keep as many as you like each roll, and secure a 1 and a 4 before the other four dice count towards your score.
Roll six dice, count evens against odds and settle the difference in chips with the pot.
Bluff with hidden dice where ones are wild and a call of dudo decides who loses a die.
Everyone joins in on every roll. Cross off numbers from left to right in four coloured rows, and lock a colour before the others do.
Secure the 6, 5 and 4 in strict order within three rolls, and let the last two dice be your cargo.
Three dice, three rolls and a strict ranking where 1-2-3 beats everything. The loser pays the winner in chips.
With a smaller group, Mexican and Farkle work beautifully. Shut the Box suits an evening where the conversation matters as much as the game, and Centennial and Everest are calm races everyone can follow.
Start with something simple while people settle in, and save the bluffing games for when the mood has warmed up. Chips or matchsticks keep track of lives and stakes without any money involved.