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Press Play to start. Roll, hold your keepers, and fill all 13 boxes.
👆 Tap a die to hold it • Tap a score box to bank the hand • Space = roll • The Hint button lights your best box in gold
A five-dice scorecard game you can play right here, free. This is Five Dice, an original GameOLL game. You roll five dice, hold the keepers, roll again, and bank each hand in one of 13 boxes on the scorecard. It is our own take on the classic dice scorecard format that many players look for as a yahtzee game, rebuilt for the browser with a live scorecard, a hint button and a daily game. No download. No sign-up. It works on your phone and your PC.
Genre
Dice · Family
Players
1 Player
Platform
Browser · Mobile · PC
Price
Free
In this guide
- How to play
- The scorecard explained
- The upper bonus and the joker rule
- Controls
- 7 tips for higher totals
- Five Dice FAQ
- Final verdict
How to play Five Dice
One game is 13 turns. Each turn you roll the dice, improve the hand if you can, then bank it in one empty box. When every box is filled, the game ends and your total is final.
- Press Play Five Dice, or choose the Daily Game for the same seeded dice everyone gets today. Then tap Roll the Dice.
- Tap dice to hold them. Held dice stay put, marked HELD in gold. Tap again to release a die.
- Re-roll up to two more times. You get three rolls per turn in total. Only the dice you did not hold are thrown again.
- Watch the scorecard. After every roll, each open box shows the exact points this hand would score there. No guesswork.
- Tap a box to bank the hand. The points are locked in, the turn ends, and that box can never be used again. Choose well.
- Fill all 13 boxes. After the last box, your grand total appears. Beat it next game. Your best total is saved in your browser.
Not sure where a hand belongs? Tap the Hint button. It lights your best open box in gold and tells you the points. The hint is advice only — the final tap is always yours.
The scorecard explained
The card has two sections. The upper section scores the faces you collect. The lower section scores poker-style hands. Every box can be used once per game, and a box banked with the wrong hand still counts — even at zero.
| Box | What scores | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Ones to Sixes | Add up the dice showing that face | The sum of those dice |
| Three of a Kind | Three or more dice of one face | Sum of all five dice |
| Four of a Kind | Four or more dice of one face | Sum of all five dice |
| Full House | Three of one face and two of another | 25 |
| Small Straight | Any run of four, like 2-3-4-5 | 30 |
| Large Straight | A full run of five, like 1-2-3-4-5 | 40 |
| Five of a Kind | All five dice the same | 50 |
| Chance | Any five dice at all | Sum of all five dice |
Two honest notes on our rules. A full house also counts as a three of a kind, because it holds three matching dice — so it can score the dice sum there if the Full House box is gone. But five of a kind does not count as a full house or a straight in Five Dice, unless the joker rule below applies.
The upper bonus and the joker rule
The 35-point upper bonus
If your six upper boxes add up to 63 or more, you earn a flat bonus of 35 points. In Five Dice the bonus joins your total the moment your upper score reaches 63, even before the section is finished. The bar above the dice always shows your upper score against the 63 line, so you can plan for it. A handy way to think about the target: three of every face gives exactly 63.
The joker rule for repeat five of a kinds
Rolling five of a kind twice in one game is rare and lucky, so Five Dice uses the classic joker rule, with one clear limit. If your Five of a Kind box already holds 50 and you roll five of a kind again, the hand can work as a joker — but only once the upper box for that face is filled. Then it may score as a Full House (25), a Small Straight (30) or a Large Straight (40). While that upper box is still open, the joker does not apply: bank the hand in the upper box or anywhere else at its normal value. One honest difference from the old board game: Five Dice pays no 100-point bonus chips for repeat five of a kinds.
Controls for phone and PC
| Action | Phone / tablet | PC / laptop |
|---|---|---|
| Roll or re-roll | Tap the Roll button | Click Roll, or press Space |
| Hold or release a die | Tap the die | Click the die |
| Bank the hand | Tap a score box | Click a score box |
| Best-box hint | Tap the Hint button | Click the Hint button |
| Sound on or off | Tap the speaker button | Click the speaker button |
7 tips for higher totals
- Guard the upper bonus. Thirty-five points is the biggest single swing in the game. Aim for three of each face early, and never waste a strong fives or sixes hand on a low box.
- Keep Chance for emergencies. Chance takes any hand. Save it for the late turn when nothing fits, instead of burning it on a fair hand early.
- Chase straights with open ends. Holding 2-3-4-5 gives you two faces to hit. Holding 1-2-3-4 gives you only one. Open runs finish far more often.
- Sacrifice small boxes first. If a turn goes wrong, dump the hand in Ones or a low lower box. A zero in Ones costs at most five points. A zero in Five of a Kind costs fifty.
- Use the third roll with a plan. Before the last roll, know exactly which faces you need. Re-rolling three dice for one perfect face is a long shot. Re-rolling one die usually is not.
- Count your pairs. Two pairs on the first roll is a real full-house chance. Hold both pairs and roll one die. It fails often, but the 25 points are worth the try when Chance is still open as a backup.
- Play the Daily Game for a fair race. The daily dice sequence is the same for everyone that day, so a daily total is pure decision-making. Compare yours with a friend’s.
Is Five Dice safe and free?
Yes. Five Dice is free to play on this page. There is nothing to download and no account to make. The game makes no external requests and collects no data: your best total, your game count and your daily streak are stored only in your own browser, on your own device.
Five Dice is an original game made by GameOLL. The dice, the scorecard art and the code are its own. It is a five-dice scorecard game in the same family as the classic tabletop dice game, but it is not that branded game, and it is not made by, endorsed by, or connected to the company that owns it. The rules above are exactly the rules the game uses, including the places where we kept things simpler.
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Five Dice FAQ
Is Five Dice free to play?
Yes. Five Dice is 100% free. You play it right on this page, with no download, no sign-up and no payment.
How many rolls do you get each turn?
You get three rolls per turn: one full roll of all five dice, then up to two re-rolls. Tap dice to hold them between rolls. A game has 13 turns, and each turn ends when you bank the hand in one of the 13 score boxes.
How does the upper bonus work?
The six upper boxes (Ones to Sixes) each score the dice showing that face. If those six boxes add up to 63 or more, you earn a bonus of 35 points. In Five Dice the bonus joins your total the moment your upper score reaches 63.
What is the joker rule?
If your Five of a Kind box already holds 50 and you roll five of a kind again, the hand can act as a joker once the upper box for that face is filled: it may score as a Full House (25), a Small Straight (30) or a Large Straight (40). While that upper box is still open, the joker does not apply. Five Dice pays no 100-point bonus chips for repeat five of a kinds.
Is Five Dice affiliated with Yahtzee?
No. Five Dice is an original GameOLL game. It is not the branded yahtzee game and it is not made by, endorsed by, or connected to Hasbro or any other company. It is our own five-dice scorecard game that you play free in your browser.
Can I play Five Dice on my phone?
Yes. Five Dice is built for touch: tap to roll, tap dice to hold them, and tap a score box to bank the hand. It also works with a mouse and the space bar on laptops and desktop PCs. The Daily Game gives every player the same dice sequence each day.
Final verdict: should you play Five Dice?
Yes — if you like dice games where every turn is a small decision with real weight. Five Dice is free, instant and honest about its rules: 13 boxes, three rolls a turn, a 35-point bonus worth planning for, and a joker rule for the luckiest hands. The live scorecard shows every option after each roll, so you always know the cost of a gamble. Your best total and your daily streak save between visits, so the next game is always a rematch with yourself. Roll your first turn now.
▶ Play Five Dice 🎮 See All Free GamesLast updated: November 5, 2026. Five Dice v1.0 — the first release of our original five-dice scorecard game, with 13 scoring boxes, the 35-point upper bonus, the joker rule, a best-box hint and a seeded daily game. An original GameOLL browser game. Found a bug? Tell us in the comments and we will fix it in the next version.
