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You play by bidding or challenging. On your turn, either raise the current bid to a higher one, or challenge the previous bid if you think it's a lie. You can only see your own dice.

Bids and challenges drive the game:

• Raising the bid means claiming a higher quantity or number, like going from 'four threes' to 'five threes' or 'four fours.' A bid says at least that many of that number exist among all the dice, with ones often counting as wild.
• Challenging means calling the previous bid a lie. All dice are revealed and counted: if the bid was true, the challenger loses a die, and if it was false, the bidder does.

Losing a challenge costs you a die, shrinking your hand and your information for future rounds.

The last player still holding dice wins. At higher of the eight levels, the computer reads your bidding patterns to catch bluffs.

Tips

• Use your own dice as a guide. You can see your own dice, so base your bids on what you hold plus a reasonable guess about the hidden ones, which keeps your claims believable rather than wild.
• Bluff, but not predictably. The computer reads patterns, so a good bluff mixed in with honest bids keeps it guessing, while always bluffing or always playing safe makes you easy to read.
• Challenge unlikely bids. When a bid claims more of a number than seems possible given your own dice and the total in play, calling it is often the right move, since the bidder may be overreaching.
• Count how many dice remain. As players lose dice, the total on the table shrinks, so a bid that was safe early becomes a stretch later, and tracking the count tells you when to challenge.
• Remember ones are usually wild. Since ones typically count toward any number, factor them into your estimates when both bidding and deciding whether to challenge, as they make higher bids more plausible than they first look.
• Watch the computer's habits. Just as it reads you, you can read it, so noticing when it tends to bluff or play it straight lets you time your challenges to catch it out.

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