Pig is commonly used by mathematics teachers to teach probability concepts. Commercial variants of two-dice Pig include Pass the Pigs, Pig Dice, and Skunk.
Players take turns to roll a single dice as many times as they wish, adding all roll results to a running total, but losing their gained score for the turn if they roll a 1.Īs with many games of folk origin, Pig is played with many rule variations, including the use of two dice instead of one.
Pig is a simple dice game first described in print by John Scarne in 1945. Dice game The game of Pig is played with a single six-sided die