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not delirium tremors, but the dice game most mountain taverns used to have behind the bar to suck an extra $1 out of you usually to support their cocaine habit or pay old bar tabs. I miss that game. Think the do-gooders made it illegal in the 90's in Colorado (prol still have it MN, MT or Alaska)
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Never heard of it. Dear Booze talks about a dice drinking game they have in Cali but I'd love to here more. What was the basic jist? Was it like liars dice?
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We shake dice for happy hour drinks at the local. One number is half off your drink, one number a $0.50 drink, the other four full price/shit out of luck.

4-5-6 is also pretty popular at the bar. Both for money and drinks.
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$1 a shake, one per day(depending on how much they liked you, you could get more than one roll), was usually 5 numbers written on a chalkboard, if you rolled them, you won all the dollars in the jar. Kinda like a personal lottery run by the bar. Sometimes the pots got pretty large in an honest bar, not meaning to insinuate bars or employees ever stole money from the jar.
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So just one dice? Damn what`s singular for that?
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So just one dice? Damn what`s singular for that?
No got standard Yahtzee cup with 5 dice
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The singular form of dice is die. This is bound to be all sorts of extra confusing for Germans.
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I Shaked-my-Dick at the Home Depot urinal today.
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^^^ eveyone does that at Home Depot.

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Thu Jul 06, 2023 12:28 pm
Never heard of it. Dear Booze talks about a dice drinking game they have in Cali but I'd love to here more. What was the basic jist? Was it like liars dice?
Liar's Dice is a great one. Also, "Ace four twenty-four," and "7-14-21."
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whiskeyprick wrote:
Thu Jul 06, 2023 2:26 am
not delirium tremors, but the dice game most mountain taverns used to have behind the bar to suck an extra $1 out of you usually to support their cocaine habit or pay old bar tabs. I miss that game. Think the do-gooders made it illegal in the 90's in Colorado (prol still have it MN, MT or Alaska)
Our local Elks Lodge has a "Shake-a-day." Here's the basics: At some point, someone (probably a bartender) rolled 5 dice and wrote the result of that single roll on a pice of paper that got taped to side of a pickle jar. Let's say it's "1-3-3-5-6". To play, you put a dollar in the jar and try to match that in one single roll.

I think the person who eventually rolls the correct combination wins half the pot.
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Dear Booze wrote:
Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:19 pm
Patchez wrote:
Thu Jul 06, 2023 12:28 pm
Never heard of it. Dear Booze talks about a dice drinking game they have in Cali but I'd love to here more. What was the basic jist? Was it like liars dice?
Liar's Dice is a great one. Also, "Ace four twenty-four," and "7-14-21."
Didn't we Skype a game of 7-14-21? Me, you, Kam and someone else. Who ever lost the round the other guys picked their next shot.
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Patchez wrote:
Fri Jul 14, 2023 12:16 pm
Dear Booze wrote:
Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:19 pm
Patchez wrote:
Thu Jul 06, 2023 12:28 pm
Never heard of it. Dear Booze talks about a dice drinking game they have in Cali but I'd love to here more. What was the basic jist? Was it like liars dice?
Liar's Dice is a great one. Also, "Ace four twenty-four," and "7-14-21."
Didn't we Skype a game of 7-14-21? Me, you, Kam and someone else. Who ever lost the round the other guys picked their next shot.
Yes! I remember that. I think it was early pandemic stuff. You know, back when bars being closed was a simple novelty.
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Dear Booze wrote:
Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:19 pm


Liar's Dice is a great one
We played that a lot.
I guess atleast. I`m too lazy to elaborate our rules. But you had to always top your right hand`s player`s score and if nescessary lie to the player on the left?
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