Dice that land outside the ring don’t count. In fact, Snake Eyes is a great way to help kids with simple addition skills.Įach person gets a turn to throw all six dice into a target ring (3 feet in diameter). Snake Eyes is one of the easiest and most popular dice games. Yard dice resemble their smaller cousins, but are 20 times as big. Cubical dice started in China and were brought back by Marco Polo in the fourteenth century.
Central and South Americans used animal bones as dice, probably to predict the future. Evidence of dice games have been found in Egyptian tombs. What is Yard Dice?ĭice have been used for gaming and divination since 2,000 BC or so.
Here’s a good reference for many yard dice games. Snake Eyes, 10,000, Ship, Captain, Crew, Whamee, Yardzee, Beat That, Twenty-One, Going to Boston, Balut, or Yarkle (or Yard Farkle) are all dice games. To play yard dice, you’ll need a set of six large dice. The last player to successfully pull out a block and put it back, before the hilarious collapse, wins. Play continues, with all the players taking turns. Then, Player 1 sets that block carefully on the top of the tower, using the 90° pattern. Player 1 removes one block from the tower. But blocks of wood falling from up to 5 feet off the ground can be scary or even harmful for little kids, so limit the age to six and over.įirst, build the tower like this. Just like classic Jenga, start the Giant Jenga tower on a hard, level surface, like a gazebo, patio, or sturdy outdoor table.Īny amount of people can play Giant Jenga – you can even play all by yourself. Building a tower with Giant Jenga blocks can be up to 5 feet high. Giant Jenga is like the classic game but – giant. The originator, Leslie Scott, grew up in Tanzania playing a game with blocks. The classic Jenga game was released in North America in 1986 by Hasbro. Giant Jenga, played outside, is a recipe for loads of laughter. You build until the entire building collapses. And that’s what you do when you play – you build. Jenga is derived from kujenga, the Swahili word for build. If they knock over the King, game over, and they win. When one team has knocked over the opponent’s field kubbs and baseline kubbs, then they have a go at knocking over the King. The game involves throwing the batons, or femurs, at the standing kubbs, or skulls, and knocking them over. The wooden parts of the game are: one King, 6 femurs (long narrow sticks or dowels called batons) and 10 skulls (thicker, shorter wooden blocks called kubbs or kubbar). To play Kubb, you need 2 or more players or 2 teams. The story goes that the game was played in (probably drunken) celebration with body parts from the vanquished enemy.Īnother version is that it was invented in the 1920s in Sweden on the island of Gotland.
Some say Kubb (pronounced koob) began with a bunch of Vikings after a good pillage. Younger children may not have the throwing skills needed and kids can get hurt from the flying wood. In this game, wooden dowels and blocks are thrown around. We love games using dismembered body parts!Īlthough kids will love the idea of throwing skulls around, Kubb is not a game for all ages. Because Kubb is about capturing a King using – body parts. Your kids are going to LOVE this game (grown up kids too).