Farkle Rules

The perfect combination

When I talk to people about the game of Farkle, many of them associate it with drinking - but NOT as a classic drinking game, more likely as a game you’d play while drinking, just to pass the time, such as in a bar.

Back in the college days (no comments from the peanut gallery about age, please) we’d sometimes hang out in the lounge and play Farkle for drinks.

It was very simple.

When you Farkled, you drank.

If we were feeling mean, when you Farkled you had a drink for each die that you had rolled.

The only additional rule we’d play with occasionally, was if you scored on all six dice (”Hot Dice”) you could make someone else take a drink IF you continued rolling.

The nice thing about the Farkle=Drink rule was when you were losing, you tended to play more aggressive, ergo more likely to Farkle. The worse you were playing, the more you drank, which could turn into a vicious circle sometimes.

If anyone has played different versions of Farkle the Drinking Game, I’d love to hear the details. I’ve got some dice ready, just in case we need to test the new rules.

Later, From Farkle-ville