Cheery Chimp

Everyone rolls 5 dice under a cup and sees only their own. Bid on how many of a face are on the table across all the dice — then either raise, or call the last player a liar. Guess wrong and you lose a die. Last player with dice left wins.

The table

You see your own 5 dice; everyone else's are hidden cups. The bidding is about the total of a face across all dice — yours and theirs — so you're always reasoning about what's under those cups.

A turn: raise or call

A bid is a quantity and a face — "four 5s" means at least four 5s across the whole table. On your turn you must either make a higher bid or call "liar."

1. Raise the quantity (any face), e.g. three 4s → four 2s.
2. Or keep the quantity and raise the face, e.g. three 4s → three 5s.
3. Or call "liar" if you think the last bid can't be true.

You bid on faces 2–6. A bid at the same quantity and a lower or equal face isn't a raise — the game won't let you.

Aces are wild

The 1s are wild — they count as whatever face is being bid. So this hand counts as three 5s toward a bid on 5s: two real 5s plus the wild ace.

That makes the 1s valuable and every face a little more common than it looks — worth remembering before you call.

Calling "liar"

Call and every cup lifts at once. Count the bid's face across the table (wild aces included):

Here there are five 5s (highlighted). Against a bid of four 5s, the bid held up — so the caller was wrong and loses a die. If the count had fallen short of the bid, the bidder would lose one instead.

Winning

Every wrong guess costs a die. Lose your last one and you're out; the challenge loser leads the next round. The last player with dice wins.