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A Farkle game in progress; a pair of three threes has been set aside, earning 300 points. Farkle, or Farkel, is a family dice game with varying rules. Alternate names and similar games include Dix Mille, Ten Thousand, Cosmic Wimpout, Chicago, Greed, Hot Dice, Volle Lotte, Squelch, Zilch, and Zonk.
The Dice 10000 article is actually viewed almost twice as many times per month as the Farkle article, and has 86 watchers to 61 for Farkle. So it's not like that article is a neglected backwater of Wikipedia.
This page is nearly identical to Greed (dice game) and both games are within the range of variant rules of farkle.In each page, nearly the same rules are described, and the Greed (dice game) and Dice 10000 pages claim specific rules as being correct, when in reality all of these games are folk games with variant rules having arisen in different playing communities.
Ten Thousand, a group of Greek mercenary units; LNER Class W1, a famous experimental steam locomotive in the United Kingdom; British Rail Class D16/1, named LMS No. 10000 and 10001 were the first mainline diesel locomotives built in Great Britain; Ten Thousand, 10,000, or Dice 10,000, alternate names of a dice game called Farkle
Dice games are games that use or incorporate one or more dice as their sole or central component, usually as a random device. The following are games which largely, if not entirely, depend on dice: Backgammon
This game, loosely based on the dice game yacht, is played for a car or a cash prize of up to $7,500. It uses five large dice, each marked with an image of a car on three sides and cash values of $500, $1,000 and $1,500 on the other three. The contestant is given one roll of the dice and can earn up to two more using three grocery products.
Ten Thousand is one name of a dice game called farkle. In game shows, The $10,000 Pyramid ran on television from 1973 to 1974. In history, Army of 10,000 Mississippi American Civil War military unit, 1861–1862. [21] The Army of the Ten Thousand were a group of Ancient Greek mercenaries who marched against Artaxerxes II of Persia.
Cosmic Wimpout is a dice game produced by C3, Inc in 1976. [1] It is similar to 1000/5000/10000, Farkle, Greed, Hot Dice, [2] Squelch, [3] Zilch, [4] to name but a few. The game is played with five custom dice, and may use a combination score board and rolling surface, in the form of a piece of cloth or felt available in various colors and designs.