PERUDO

OBJECTIVE OF PERUDO: The objective of Perudo is to not lose your dice before other players do while making bids on the dice rolled by everyone.

NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 2 to 6

MATERIALS: 6 cups of 6 different colours and 36 dice (6 of each colour)

TYPE OF GAME: auction based dice game

AUDIENCE: teen, adult

OVERVIEW OF PERUDO

Perudo is an auction game in which players secretly roll dice and bet on the total number of dice with a certain value. keonha cai

SETUP

Firstly, roll the dice to determine who will start. Then each player takes a cup and the five dice of the same color.

GAMEPLAY

Course of a round

Each player shakes his cup to mix the dice and places it upside down in front of them, keeping the dice under the cup. The dice are therefore invisible because the cups are opaque. Each player can then look at the dice under their cup. Each player in turn, in a clockwise direction, will be able to bid on the number of dice with a specific value from all the players’ dice.

The first player makes a bid (e.g. “eight six” to affirm that there are at least eight dice with the value six). You cannot start an auction by betting on the number of Pacos. On the other hand, Pacos count as jokers, so they automatically take the dice value announced in the auction. For example, a player with two fours, two Pacos and a five actually has four fours or three fives (or two of the values he has not on his non Paco dice).

The blue player having two fives and two Pacos, he thinks there are at least 8 fives (including the Pacos) on the table and thus announces “eight fives”.

The next player can:

Outbidby announcing more dice: out of 8 four, announce 9 four for example
by announcing a higher value: out of 8 four, announce 8 five for example
by betting on the number of Pacos. In this case, the number of dice bet must be at least halved (rounded up): out of 9 four, announce 5 Pacos for example (9/2=4,5 so 5 Pacos).
by returning from a Pacos auction to a normal auction. In this case, you have to double the number of dice and add one: for example on 5 Pacos, outbid 11 three (5×2=10, and add 1).
Announce that the bid is wrong, i.e. that there are fewer dice in reality than the number announced in the last bid. In this case the player announces Dudo (pronounced Doudo, which means “I doubt”) and all players reveal their dice. If the bid was right, the player who doubted loses a die, otherwise the player who made the wrong bid loses a die.

The orange player plays last, and the previous players have raised the bid, announcing nine fives and ten fives. Having no fives at all, he doubts.