How to play Monkey Dice - A.K.A.
a.k.a. Monkey-Do the dice game:

Above shows some possible scores that a player might throw at the beginning of the game. Notice the scores on the right hand side. In Monkey Dice the game, only two of these dice sides on their own represent a winning number. Those two important numbers or sides are the sides 1 and 5. And as it would suggest, the one (1) equals 100 and the five (5) equals 50. All the others do not garner any points on their own. They can only earn points if three are thrown in one single throw. As the illustration above describes. In other words, throwing a number six (6) does not earn any points at all, while throwing three sixes at once (3 x #6 sides) could be worth 600 points depending on the circumstances. Those circumstances depend on what stage and what version of the game you are playing. More about that later.

There are two ways to play the game of Monkey Dice (a.k.a. Monkey Do), Simple and Advanced.

Simple version: In the simple version the objective of the game is to reach 10,000 points or another nominated number of points. The first person to reach the nominated number (such as 10,000) is the winner. There can be any number of players and players can form teams. The more players the higher the nominated number should be. For example 10,000 points is a good number for 2-4 players, or even up to six. Beyond 6 players however, the number should be increased by 1000/player. It doesn't matter if the total is an odd number either. In fact it can make it seem even more mysterious.

To start: Each player throws one dice each to see who throws first. Highest thrown dice throws first. If there are duplicate throws by players they continue to throw until someone is able to start. However, if it looks like there's something wrong with the dice you're using and this process might go on forever you should forget about this bit and just let somone throw.

The starting player throws a hand of dice. If a single 1 or a 5 are thrown they are worth 100 or 50 points. See chart above. Either of these point-scoring dice, or all of them are then removed from the hand of dice and added to the score of the player who can throw the remainder of the dice to try and obtain more points.


Advanced version: