the pirate plague of the dead tips and tricks

If you make a wrong guess or a bluff and your opponent calls you on it, you lose and he wins. If you can make the other guy back off, you also win. From there, it's like a game of chicken: If you get the number right, you win. Then, in sequence, they each look at their dice and guess as to how many of a given number is up out of all the dice that end up showing. This means you could give up a game and take the entire pot of years of service added onto your own in order to let another person win a secondary wager they had on the game, but under normal circumstances, nobody would want to. Presumably, if someone calls what they think is a bluff and it turns out to be true, the caller gets penalized in some way. If you say that your dice are a different number from what you actually rolled, your opponents have the option of calling your bluff and disqualifying or penalizing you, but your call is final.

You roll most of your dice, bet on an outcome which is preferably higher than the other peoples' bets, then go around the table and either roll your last die or reveal your dice. It's a combination of craps and B.S./cheat (a card game centered around bluffing).

The pirate plague of the dead tips and tricks