Poker Dice
Five chunky dice, each marked 9, 10, J, Q, K and A. Roll them all, tap the dice you want to keep, then roll the rest one more time. Your five faces are read as a poker hand.
Choose a stake and press Roll.
On your tab — coins
The rules in a minute
- Pick a stake of 10, 25 or 50 coins and press Roll. The stake leaves your tab and all five dice tumble.
- Tap any dice you want to keep. They light up and say “held”. Tap again to let one go.
- Press Roll the rest to throw the others once more, or Keep all five if you are happy.
- The final five faces are read as a poker hand and paid from the table. There are no suits, so there are no flushes.
A straight is either 9-10-J-Q-K or 10-J-Q-K-A. Returns include your stake: three of a kind gives the stake back, which is not counted as a win, and two pair or a pair of jacks, queens, kings or aces returns part of it. Unsure what to keep? The hold button works out the choice with the best average return for the dice in front of you.
How it pays, with the exact odds
The first column counts all 7,776 ways five dice can land. The second follows a player who always holds the dice that give the highest average return before the second roll, worked out exactly over every possible throw.
| Hand | Returns per 10 | After one roll | After the best re-roll |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five of a kind | 80 | 0.08% | 1.25% |
| Four of a kind | 20 | 1.93% | 11.80% |
| Straight | 16 | 3.09% | 3.32% |
| Full house | 14 | 3.86% | 9.72% |
| Three of a kind | 10 | 15.43% | 30.53% |
| Two pair | 4 | 23.15% | 21.32% |
| Pair of jacks or better | 2 | 30.86% | 16.75% |
| Pair of nines or tens | 0 | 15.43% | 4.97% |
| No pair, no straight | 0 | 6.17% | 0.34% |
With the best holds, the average return is 94.95% of the stake (199,345 coins back for every 209,952 staked), so over time the dice keep about 5 coins in every 100. Hold the wrong dice and the return drops below that.
About the coins
Poker Dice uses virtual coins only. They cannot be bought, sold, withdrawn or exchanged, they are not cryptocurrency, and they are worth nothing outside this site. Adults 18+ only.