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If you have played the dice game Ace – Four – Twenty-Four, then you should be able to pick up on this drinking dice game very quickly. The objective is to get the lowest score possible with 5 dice, and three’s equal zero.

To play this game, you need 5 dice, a cup, and a flat surface to play on. Check out the drinking game rules below:

1. Put all 5 dice in the cup, shake, and slam the cup upside down on the table.


2. Lift the cup to expose the dice.


3. You can keep as many dice as you want from each roll until there are none left.


4. The objective is to get the lowest score, and three’s count as 0.


5. So for each roll, you should always keep any three’s that turn up.


6. If no three’s turn up, you should take the next lowest dice possible.


7. Each player’s turn ends when they have selected all of the dice.


8. You are required to take at least one dice each roll.


9. The player with the lowest score after all players have gone is the winner.


10. The losers take one drink for each point in the winner’s score.

As an added twist, feel free to turn this drinking game into a betting game, playing $1 or $5 per round. However, the person with most money at the end of the night should buy drinks for everyone else when the game is over.