25 Fun and Engaging Dice Games For Kids

Dice games for kids are an excellent way to keep them playfully happy and require little preparations. Most of the dice games are easy to set-up, making them an ideal choice for classroom as well as homeschooling.

Irrespective of educational value, they are a fun way to pass time at home and can be played indoors as well as outdoors.

So dive in this amazing list of 25 Dice Games for Kids that include classic dice games as well as novel dice game ideas that are fast-paced, competitive and super fun!

Best Dice Games For Kids

1. Candy or Dice

This is a fun dice game for preschoolers and kindergarteners. It requires little prep and is easy to organise and play.

For ages: 5+ years

What you need:

• Candy
• 2 dice
• Timer
• 4+ players

Objective: Win as many candies as possible. 

How To Play:

1. Let the kids sit in a circle and place all the candy bars in the center. Start the game with each kid having at least one candy with them.
2. Set a five-minute timer; roll and pass the dice around.
3. Each player rolls the dice. If the player gets doubles on their dice, he/she gets to pick a candy from the center or can take a candy from their neighbours.
4. The game continues till the timer buzzes! The one with the most candy wins and gets to keep them.

Taking candy bars from neighbours makes it thrilling and competitive. Replace candy with small gifts for an added twist. The Candy Bar Dice Game is a great idea for Halloween as well!

You can make the game exciting by replacing doubles with number rules like if the player rolls even numbers or multiple of 5, they get to pick the candy. It is a fun way to add more thrill to the game while sneaking in mental math skills.

2. Beat That! 

If you are looking for easy dice games to play with kids, Beat that is just for you! Perfect for kids who are learning numbers, this game is all about getting the highest number combination.

For ages: 5+ years

What you need: 2 Dice 

Goal: Kids have to beat the opponent’s score. 

How To Play:

1. Kids take turns rolling the dice, aiming to score the highest possible number by combining the numbers on the dice. For example, if they roll a “2” and a “4,” their score is “42.” 
2. Here comes the exciting part! Kids challenge the next player with a bold “Beat that!” statement and pass on the dice. Player with the highest score wins the round.

3. Apple Math Dice Game

This dice game gamifies math making it engaging. Depending on your child’s math curriculum, play the game to practise addition and subtraction using pom poms and two dice. 

For ages: 5+ years

What you need:

• A colorful tree printout as shown in the picture below
• Pom-poms in two colours. 
• 2 dice 
• 2 players
• Apple dice game template

Objective: A fun way to add/subtract apples and oranges

How To Play:

1. Players take turns to roll both the dice and add/subtract the numbers, depending on their grade level, to compute the answer. 
2. Each right response allows them to attach chosen coloured pom-poms, equal to the answer, on the tree.
3. Make it more fun by allowing the player to replace the opponent’s apples when they get the right answer.

Apple Dice Game Template

Related: Make numeracy fun with Classroom Math Games!

4. Going to Boston 

This is an exciting dice game for kids as well as adults! A fun way to engage with kids, this is a perfect family game that will get everyone competing.

For ages: 6+ years

What you need: 3 dice and 4+ players.

Objective: Reach the decided goal number. 

How To Play:

1. You will need a goal number for this game. Each player rolls the dice three times until one of them  gets the goal number. 
2. Suppose the goal number is 100. The goal of the game is to reach that number the fastest. Whoever achieves the goal first wins!
3. Here’s the rule: The first player will roll all three dice together,  select the one with the highest number and keep that dice aside. Let’s say, the first roll results are these three numbers: 4, 1, 6. The player will choose the dice with the “6” number. 
4. The same player will now roll the remaining two dice and select the dice with the highest number. Suppose, the two dice have “2” and “3” numbers. So, the player will choose 3.
5. The last dice will be rolled to decide the third number. Let’s say the player rolls a 5. Now, the player has to add all three (highest) numbers for their first score:  6+3+5= 14
6. Pass on the dice to the next player and the game continues. The players remember their totals ( as well as other player’s totals!) from previous rounds and build on them to reach the goal number.

Quick Tip: Choose from these 45 Best Family Games for complete family fun!

5. Passage 

This is a fast-paced competitive dice game for kids of all ages! Easy to play, Passage will get even your youngest competing.

For ages: 5+ years

What you need:  Dice – As many dice as the players in the game

Objective: The goal is to achieve 11 points in this dice game. 

How To Play:

1. To set up the game, all players have to roll the dice together. The player with the highest number will initiate the game. The lowest number would become the “Point number” in this game. Suppose the point number is “1” 
2. Here’s when the actual game begins! Each player has to roll two dice together. 
3. If one of the dice reads “1” (a.k.a., the point), they get one point. If both their dice roll reads “1”, they get 2 points. Whoever reaches 11 points first, wins the game!

6. 18 for Fun

18 for fun is a dice game for grade 4 and above. This fast-paced dice game is a big hit with tweens and teens! Players need to be good at bluffing and reading faces for this fun dice game! Think of it as a dice game version of the popular card game ‘bluff’.

For ages: 10+ years

What you need:

• 1 cup for each player
•  3 dice per player
• Lots of M&M/Tic Tac/Candies – four times the number of players works well 
• 4+ players 

Objective: Each kid’s goal is to have the number “18” (total of all the three dice inside the cup) or they have to manipulate their opponents into believing that they do have the number 18. 

How To Play:

Start the game in descending (age) order. The oldest player will go first.

1. Every player will have to roll their (three) dice together in their respective cups.
2. After taking a peak, the first player has to either say 18 if they have a number close to 18, or say “fold” if the number is way below 18. No other player has to make that claim, only the one whose turn it is! 
3. If other players believe the first player’s claim, they will give them a candy. 
4. The player making the claim has to be convincing enough to make others believe that they do have the number 18 or others can ask “SHOW THEM”. If any player asks “Show them,” everyone has to show their dice, including the one who’s claiming. 
5. If the claimant has the highest number (it doesn’t have to be 18) after the “show them” is announced, each player will give the claimant 3 candies.
6. However, if the claimant doesn’t have the highest number, claimant will have to give one candy to all the players and 2 candies to the player who asked ‘Show them’ and the player with the highest score. 
7. The game will continue player by player until one of them loses all the candies or only one player has all the candies depending on the time on hand!

This dice game for kids is perfect around Halloween because kids usually have a lot of candies to bet on!

7. First to 50 

This is a super exciting game that will have everyone joining in! A perfect game for birthday parties, this dice game for kids & adults will have children of all ages competing and fighting for the pen to reach 50 first.

For ages: 6+ years

What you need: 

• Paper – each player will need one sheet of paper
• 1 Dice
• 1 Pen
• 4+ players

Objective: To reach number 50  before anyone else!

How To Play:

1. Give paper to each player and play the pen in the middle.
2. Players get turns to roll the dice. Whosoever rolls a six, gets to pick the pen and starts writing numbers from 1 to 50 on their sheet of paper. The dice is passed to the next player.
3. The moment another player rolls a six, he/she grabs the pen from the last player who rolled a six and starts writing numbers on his/her sheet.
4. The first one to hit 50 wins the round. It’s simple, lively, and bound to bring out everyone’s playful side. 

So roll that dice, and may the best “pen” win! 

8. One and Done

It’s an easy and engaging dice game for classroom that can be played without much preparation. All you need is to divide kids into same sized groups and let the fun begin.

For ages: 6+ years

What you need: 

• 3 Dice
• Paper & Pen
• 2+ players

Objective: Reach the point goal “75.”

How To Play:

1. Players roll the dice, aiming to avoid rolling a 1. The dice is passed to the next player if one is rolled.
2. If the player does not roll a one, they keep rolling their dice and adding numbers on their dice till they get a one on their dice.
3. Everyone keeps adding their numbers until someone hits 75 points to win.  

9. Roll a Word 

Make literacy lessons fun for your kids, with “roll a word” dice game. This dice game for students is excellent in making learning fun and collaborative. And the best part, teachers can tweak it for all sorts of literacy activities – vocabulary, story writing, book reviews, character portrait and what not!

For ages: 8-10+ years 

What you need: 

• Vocabulary printables as shown in the image below
• 1 dice Pen/pencil
• 1+ players (or the whole class)

Objective: Roll dice and learn something new about different vocabulary words. 

How To Play: 

Different numbers on the dice will give your kids different activities. For instance, the number “1” is simple and will ask your kids to give out a simple definition for any given word. The number “2” will ask kids to provide synonyms, the number “3” on the dice will ask them to write a sentence using the given word. 

10. 3 is Free!

This is a fun dice game of odds where the player with the lowest score wins the game! An entertaining dice game for classroom as well as home, it is sure to keep students entertained.

For ages: 6+ years

What you need: five dice and at least 2 players. 

Objective: The objective is to score the lowest possible points, even aiming for a perfect 0. 

How To Play:

Aim Low and Win! Gather two or more players for this traditional dice game. Wait, how to get a zero on the dice!? That’s where the “3 is free” game name comes from! In this game, the number “3” is considered “0.” 

1. Each player takes turns rolling all five dice together. The player must keep any three’s that are rolled. And in case no three is rolled the player must pick the dice with the lowest face value and keep it with them. The lowest number will be the score for that round.
   For example: if the player rolled 3,2,6,5 and 1 , he/she can keep the dice with 3 and the score will be 0 for that round. They will next roll with the remaining 4 dice.
   In case the player does not roll a 3, they can keep the dice with lowest value. For instance if 2,5,6,4,2 is rolled, the player will keep both the dice with 2 face value and the score will be 2+2 = 4 for that round.
2. The player keeps re-rolling the dice and removing the dice with number three or the smallest number till no more dice are left to roll.
3. Once all the dice have been kept, the player will add the lowest values of the dice for each roll and that will be his/her score for the game.
4. Similarly, all players get their turns and the one with the lowest score wins the game.

11. Knock Out 

This is a super fun dice game for the classroom that is ideal to teach probability to grade 6 students and above. But it can definitely be played with younger kids as well to teach them addition.

For ages: 5+ years

What you need: 2 dice

How To Play:

1. Each player picks their “knockout” number, say 7, 8 or 9. Players can choose the same knock-out number as well. If you are playing with younger kids, choose a number that players can get by adding the face number of both the dice. For older players, they can choose a product of the two numbers on their dice.The idea here is to choose a number with the least number of odds.
2. Player takes turns to roll the dice. If the sum/product of the rolled dice is the same as that of the knock-out number, the player is knocked out of the game.
3. The last player standing wins the game!

12. Tenzi 

This is a simple dice game for kids that is exciting and fast paced. The only catch is you need good space to play this game, so it is best played outdoors!

For ages: 5+ years

What you need: 

• Different colored dice. Each color should have 10 dice. 

Objective: To match all the 10 dice with the same spot number. 

How To Play:

1. All players should roll their first dice at the same time, nobody has to wait for others to roll after the first round. 

2. Players have to be quick in choosing the number they wish to achieve. For instance, 10 “6s” on the dice, 10 “2s” on the dice, and so on! 
3.  If a player has more 5s on the 10 dice, they can go with that number to win the game. 
4. Set aside the dice with the desired number and roll the remaining dice quickly.
5. Whoever achieves 10 dice of the same number first, shouts ‘Tenzi’  and wins the game!

Kids can play multiple rounds, and the first player to win a set number of rounds, like 3 or 5, wins the whole game of dice. It’s a really simple and exciting dice game that you can play with friends and family!

13. Roll a Story

This literacy dice game for classroom will get creativity flowing in the classroom. Make groups of four students and let them roll a story by playing a simple game of dice.

This is fun game to add to your creative writing activities that will encourage kids to work in groups to weave a story. To make things more interesting, choose a genre like humour, thrill and let kids share the stories they created.

Roll-a-Story

14. Pirates 

This is a fun dice game for family and friends. Competitive and exciting, this game assures silly laughs and lots of fun!

For ages: 6+ years

What you need: Five dice

Objective: Collect pirate booty.  

How To Play:

1. Players take turns rolling five dice (three times each) in this pirate dice game, hoping to roll a 6 (ship), a 5 (captain), and a 4 (crew). 
2. The value of the remaining two dice becomes pirate booty, and is the players’ score for that particular round if they manage to get all three (Ship, captain, crew). 
3. However, they receive a score of 0 for that round if they fail to roll the ship, captain, and crew together. 
4. Player with the highest pirate booty wins the game.

Kids have the option of playing each round as a separate game or aiming for a certain overall score. It’s a simple and enjoyable candy dice game that kids can play while dressing up as famous pirates.

15. Race to 100 

If you enjoyed playing chutes and ladder, you will love this math dice game as well! Easy and fun to play, it is a simple dice game that will test your students’ math acumen.

For ages: 6+ years

What you need: 

• Two dice
• Two counters
• Hundreds Chart.
• 2 players 

Objective: Goal is to reach 100 points, it cannot go beyond 100! So, players have to be strategic with their equations to get the perfect 100. 

How To Play:

1. In “Race to One Hundred”, players use two dice to advance on from zero to one hundred by adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers. Think of it as a math version of classic chutes and ladders. 
2. Players take turns rolling the dice and using maths operations to move their markers to 100. The only catch, players cannot use a number, which when added to the counter’s position, overshoots 100. In that case, the player loses their turn.

Add a challenge by using negative integers in this simple yet competitive math dice game.

16. Roll & Retell 

The “Roll and Retell” dice game for students is an interactive way to assess and enhance their reading comprehension skills. 

It encourages students to recall and summarise different elements of a given story while making the learning process enjoyable and interactive. It’s a fun dice game to strengthen comprehension skills of kids 7+ years.

Roll-&-Retell

17. Catch Up

This is a fun game of knee-slapping, applauding, and chanting tunes with the beat. Objective is to collect three tokens from the centre or the pot.

For ages: 10+ years

 What you need: 

• Two dice
• Tokens (Coins)

Objective: Collect three tokens. 

How To Play:

1. All the players sit in a circle. Any two players sitting opposite to each other in the circle get a dice each.
2. The players create an exhilarating atmosphere by knee-slapping, applauding, and chanting in time with the beat till the rolling happens.
3. Both the players with dice roll their respective dice together. If any of the players rolls a 6, that player must pass on their dice to the person sitting on their left side.
4. The player cannot pass on the dice until he/she gets a 6.
5. Once any player has both the dice, that player can take one token from the centre and the game will proceed in the same manner.
6. The goal is to gather three tokens from the centre. Whoever gathers the three tokens first, wins the game. 

18. Dice War 

This is an exciting game to play with kids anytime, anywhere! Easy and quick to play, this fun game will get your kids in a friendly competition with each other

For ages: 5-6+ years

What you need: 

• Two Dice
• 10 Pebbles/rocks/pennies
• 2+ players.

If your kids are bored of playing the same old dice games, here’s one that will entertain them to no limits, called “Dice Wars”.

Objective: Collect others’ pebbles.  

How To Play:

1. Each player gets 5 counters to start with
2. Players take turns rolling the dice, and adding the numbers. The player with the highest total takes a counter from all the others.
3. The game keeps going until one player gets ten counters.

19. Break The Ice 

This boredom buster is a family entertainer! Perfect for family game nights, it is a simple game that promises silly laughs.

For ages: 4+ years

What you need: 

• Each player will have one cup. 
• One tissue per player (Keep tissues and cups in stock)
• 5 dice for each player
• Toothpick for each player
• Rubber bands. 
• 2+ Players. 

Objective: To be the last player with dice on the tissue paper. 

How To Play:

1. Prepare the game by covering all the cups with tissue paper. Add a rubber band to keep the paper in place. Handle one cup to each kid. 
2. Each player places one dice on their cup.
3. Players take turns rolling two dice. If they roll a one on either of the dice, they add a dice on their cup. No player can have more than 4 dice at any time on their cups. 
4. In case one is not rolled,  players add the numbers on their rolled dice and poke holes equal to the sum, in their tissue paper.
   For example: If they roll 5 and 6, they get to put 11 holes in their cup. If any dice fall into the cup, that player is out. 

The last one with dice on the tissue top wins.

20. Left Centre Right Dice Game 

This is a fast-paced dice game that is super easy to play. Such games with dice are perfect for families with a mixed age group.

For ages: 7+ years

What you need: 

•  3 Dice
• 3 chips per player
  Goal: Empty everyone’s chips! 

Number Rules:

Follow these rules to play the game: 

• 1, 2, and 3 on the dice are considered dots. No chips are passed for dots.
• For a 4, give a chip to the left.
• For a 5, put one in the center.
• For a 6, give a chip to the right.

How To Play:

1. Players roll the dice and pass the chips according to the numbers they get.
2. Starting from the second round, players roll as many dice as the chips they have.
3. The game continues till all the players, except one, have lost all their chips. 

21. Nouns Dice Game

A wonderful way to practise nouns with kids, it will get your students and kids thinking and learning grammar the fun way. This literacy dice game for grade 1 and above is a must addition to literacy centers and homeschooling literacy activities.

Nouns Dice Game

22. Fraction Dice Game  

There is nothing better than fun dice games for the classroom to help students practise their math skills. Fraction dice game is a group game that will promote collaboration and make practising fractions hands-on.

23. Round the Clock

If your kids are learning how to read time/clock, this activity is a great way to gear their skills. 

For ages: 6+ years 

What you need:

• Clock Template 
• Tokens/Counters
• 2 dice

Objective: Be the first person to move around the clock

How To Play:

1. Roll the dice to choose who goes first, the highest score can go first! The game will start at midnight, i.e., when the clock reads twelve. 
2. Place everyone’s token at 12 O’clock. Players must pass through all the numbers in the clock. To do that, they must either roll the exact number or its combination. For example: The player’s first goal is to get “1” on their dice, so they can move on 1 O’clock. So they either have to roll a one or a combination like 3-2, 4-3 and so on.
   Similarly, for the player at 4 o’clock, they must either roll a 5 or a combination like 3+1, 2+2 or 6-2 to move to 5 o’clock. 
3. If they miss, they can keep trying in the next turn. The first player to go around the clock from 1 to 12 wins. 

Round The Clock Dice Game

24. Roll & Tell About Your Family

This dice game is a great ice breaker for kids and a fun back to school activity! All you need is the printable of the activity to start the game.

Kids take turns rolling the dice and answering the questions corresponding to the number on the dice face. It’s that simple!

Roll & Tell Your Family Game

25. Farkle 

For ages: 8+ years

Farkle is a dice game of risk, strategy, luck, and patience. Players must decide when to push their luck and when to play it safe to avoid losing points. It’s a fun and casual dice game for big groups and family game nights..