Poker dice are dice which, instead of having number pips, have representations of playing cards upon them. Poker dice have six sides, one each of an Ace, King, Queen, Jack, ten and nine, and are used to form a poker hand.
The classic poker dice game is played with 5 dice and two or more players. Each player has a total of 3 rolls and the ability to hold dice in between rolls. After the three rolls the best hand wins. Neither a "flush" nor a "straight flush" is a possible hand, due to the lack of suits on the dice. (Each variety of poker dice varies slightly in regards to suits, though the ace of spades is almost universally represented. 9♣ and 10♦ are frequently found, while face cards are traditionally represented not by suit but instead by color: green, red and blue. Manufacturers have not standardized the colors of the face sides.)
Marlboro once marketed a set of octahedral poker dice that included suits; each die had slightly different numberings, ranging from 7 up to ace.
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The poker dice hand rankings and the corresponding probabilities of rolling that hand are as follows (not sorted by probability but from highest to lowest ranking):[1][2]
| Hand | Exact probability | Percentage | 1 in ... |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five of a kind | 6 / 7776 | 0.08% | 1296 |
| Four of a kind | 150 / 7776 | 1.93% | 51.8 |
| Full house | 300 / 7776 | 3.86% | 25.9 |
| Straight | 240 / 7776 | 3.09% | 32.4 |
| Three of a kind | 1200 / 7776 | 15.43% | 6.5 |
| Two pair | 1800 / 7776 | 23.15% | 4.3 |
| One pair | 3600 / 7776 | 46.30% | 2.2 |
| Bust (High card, no pair) | 480 / 7776 | 6.17% | 16.2 |