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Most popular dice games
The dice games people actually play — Yahtzee, Farkle, Liar's Dice, Bunco and more — ranked from sales, reviews, surveys and how often people look them up.
25 games · from 9 sources
A game not on the site yet gets added when people ask for it. Vote on the request board — and send it to friends: every account gets ten votes.
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| Status | Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yahtzee | 1956 | On the site | |
| 2 | Pass the PigsRequested — vote to add it | — | Not on the site yet | |
| 3 | Liar's Dice | 1987 | On the site | |
| 4 | Shut the BoxRequested — vote to add it | — | Not on the site yet | |
| 5 | Farkle | 1980 | On the site | |
| 6 | King of Tokyo | 2011 | On the site | |
| 7 | Ship, Captain, and CrewRequested — vote to add it | — | Not on the site yet | |
| 8 | CrapsRequested — vote to add it | — | Not on the site yet | |
| 9 | Machi KoroRequested — vote to add it | — | Not on the site yet | |
| 10 | Can't Stop | 1980 | On the site | |
| 11 | Sagrada | 2017 | On the site | |
| 12 | Bunco | — | On the site | |
| 13 | Rory's Story CubesRequested — vote to add it | — | Not on the site yet | |
| 14 | LCR | 1983 | On the site | |
| 15 | Poker DiceRequest it and vote | — | Not on the site yet | |
| 16 | Zombie Dice | 2010 | On the site | |
| 17 | The GameRequest it and vote | — | Not on the site yet | |
| 18 | Las VegasRequested — vote to add it | — | Not on the site yet | |
| 19 | Dice Throne | 2018 | On the site | |
| 20 | Roll for the GalaxyRequested — vote to add it | — | Not on the site yet | |
| 21 | Roll PlayerRequested — vote to add it | — | Not on the site yet | |
| 22 | Cee-loRequested — vote to add it | — | Not on the site yet | |
| 23 | Sic BoRequested — vote to add it | — | Not on the site yet | |
| 24 | MiaRequested — vote to add it | — | Not on the site yet |
How we built this
This list measures popularity — how many people buy, review, know and play a game — not which games critics rate highest. It blends four kinds of evidence. Sales: bestseller charts (Target's best-selling games) and published sales figures count fully. Reviews: how many people have reviewed a game on BoardGameGeek counts fully. We count the reviews, not the scores — a score says how much a game's fans like it, not how many people play it. Awareness: popularity surveys count fully, and twelve months of Wikipedia pageviews — how many people look a game up — count one and a half times. Published lists: editors' lists of popular classics count a little over half, and lists that rank by quality count only a fifth. Amazon's sales and review counts would belong here too, but Amazon doesn't allow its pages to be read automatically, so they aren't included. On a ranked list a game earns more for a higher place; a measured signal is scaled so the most-viewed game in the genre earns the full amount. The list is ranked purely by that score. Every listed game has at least one real, dated signal — nothing is added on a guess — and the lower places are often held up by measurements alone, such as pageviews or review counts, so they are the less certain ones. A game with no Wikipedia article earns nothing from pageviews, which holds back a few popular games. Dice games are played mainly with dice. There are fewer dice games with strong evidence, so this list is shorter than the others. Our own judgement comes in only through those weights and through which genre each game belongs to.
Sources read September 29, 2026. Titles and positions are facts we compiled; the descriptions and the order are our own.
- Target Board Games, sorted Best selling (pages 1-2)Target · live, accessed 2026-09-29 · counts ×1
Retailer sales-rank ordering of in-stock board game listings; position reflects Target's recent sales, localized to a store (server request showed store_id 3991).
- Lifetime sales figures stated in individual Wikipedia game articlesWikipedia · live articles, accessed 2026-09-29 · counts ×1
Our compilation: one sales figure per article, taken from the article text; figures are 'as of' different years and come from publisher or press claims. Ranked here by the figures given (largest first).
- Target: Dice Games, best-selling sort (pages 1–2)Target · live, accessed 2026-09-29 · counts ×1
Retailer sales-rank ordering of the dice games category. Page positions are kept; non-games (loose dice, dice sets, accessories) and games not among our candidates are skipped.
- What Americans think about board games (33 games played)YouGov · 2026-06-10 · counts ×1
Online YouGov panel poll of 1,131 US adult citizens, May 6-10 2026, weighted; respondents rated how often they had played each listed game.
- Most played board games (played last year, in real life)Troy Press / Researchscape International (Jeffrey Henning) · 2025-10-18 · counts ×1
Researchscape online newsmaker survey of 1,059 US adults, Jan 3-5 2025, weighted on 10 demographics; game list drawn from top open-ended answers. Full 22-game table published in the chronology post; headline post at https://troypress.com/most-played-board-games-and-card-games/.
- The Cult of the Old: Board Game PurchasesTroy Press / Researchscape International · 2018-06-30 · counts ×1
Researchscape online quota-sampled survey of 2,000 US adults 18-80, June 22-24 2018; open-ended list of games purchased. 'Playing cards' (13) and 'Poker set' (8) omitted as equipment rather than a single game.
- 30 Classic Board Games Everyone Should OwnReader's Digest · 2026-02-16 (updated) · counts ×0.6
Magazine editors' curated list of classics.
- English Wikipedia pageviews, 12 monthsWikimedia Foundation (Pageviews API) · 2025-09 to 2026-08, human traffic (agent=user) · counts ×1.5
How many times people opened the game's English Wikipedia article over the last 12 full months. A measure of how many people look a game up, not of how good it is.
- BoardGameGeek — number of user ratingsBoardGameGeek (daily public snapshot of BGG's rankings) · snapshot of 2026-09-29 · counts ×1
How many BoardGameGeek members have rated the game — a count of hobbyists who have played it, used here as a popularity signal. The rating itself is not used.