Farkle Rules of Play

 Farkle Rules of Play

Farkle is played by 2 or more players, each player in succession having a turn at throwing the dice. Each player's turn results in a score and the scores for each player accumulate to some winning total (usually 5,000 or 10,000).

At the beginning of each turn, the player throws all six, six-sided dice.

After each throw, one or more scoring dice must be set aside.

The player may either end their turn and bank the score accumulated or continue to throw the remaining dice.

If the player has scored all six dice, they have “hot dice” and must continue their turn with a new throw of all six dice, adding to the score they have already accumulated.

If none of the dice score in any given throw, the player has “Farkled” and all points for that turn are lost.

At the end of the player's turn, the dice are handed to the next player in succession (usually in clockwise rotation), and they have their turn.

Once a player has achieved a winning point total, each other player has one last turn to score enough points to surpass that high score. 

 A player must score 250 to start banking the first time.

 

Farkle Scoring

Dice Combination Score

Each 1              100

Each 5              50

Three 1s           1000

Three 2s           200

Three 3s           300

Three 4s           400

Three 5s           500

Three 6s           600

A straight (1-2-3-4-5-6) is scored as        1000

Three pair (e.g., 1-1-4-4-6-6) is scored as           1000