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What is Bunko / Bunco
What is Bunko??
Bunko/Bunco is a social event. It's a party. It's a blast! Twelve of us get together from my neighborhood once a month, leaving the cares and worries behind, and leaving the kids with their fathers or baby-sitters. Girls night out!!
We fall off our diets and have delicious appetizers, dinner, and seconds on dessert...sometimes thirds! We drink our favorite spritzer, Chardonnay, Tea, or other drink-of-the-night, and we talk. We talk about our kids. About the neighbors. About anyone who didn't show up. LOL About our husbands, our jobs, their jobs, the builder in our community, TV shows, current events, and anything else that might tickle our fancy. Oh yeah, and we play a silly, mindless dice game with wild abandon, hoping to take home a prize. Rules Strictly speaking, Bunko is a game of dice, played in rounds. Players take turns rolling the dice and trying to accumulate as many points as possible to win each round. The game is played at three tables of four people in competing teams of two. You have a Head Table, a Middle Table, and a Loser Table. It doesn’t matter where you start at. Players score points by rolling three dice and trying to match the number they're supposed to roll for that round. Start with ones all the way to sixes. They get a point for each die that rolls the number, and if all three roll the number they score 21 points…also called a Bunko! They score 5 points for rolling three of a kind of any other number…also called Baby Bunkos or Mini Bunkos. They get to keep rolling as long as they score one or more points with each roll. Once they fail to score they pass the dice to their left and the opposing team gets a chance to score. During each round the teams at the Head Table try to score 21 points. The first team at the Head Table to score 21 points wins the round and play stops. At all other tables play stops when the Head Table play stops and the team with the highest score at each of lower tables win the round. At the end of the round players change seats, the winners at each of the lower tables move up a table, and the losers at the head table move to the middle table. The middle table losers move to the loser table. Players who don’t move tables are the winners at the winning table and the losers at the losing table. Players also switch partners at the end of the round, so you never play with the same partner twice in a row. During play, players track the number of rounds they win and lose as a team, and the number of Bunko’s scored individually, on their personal scorecard. At the end of the night you give prizes for the most wins, the most losses, the most Bunko’s, and a traveler prize which is the last person who got a Bunko. Only one prize per person though. If there is a tie, you do a roll off. Whoever gets the highest number gets the prize. To play you need 9 dice, 12 score cards, 9 score keeping cards (3 at each table for each complete round to play at least 3 times), and pencils. You take your individual score card with you and leave the score keeping cards, the dice, and pencils at their table. We each bring $5 to help with the prizes for a total of $60. The top two prizes are worth about $20 each and the lower two prizes are worth about $10 each. It's always fun to see what great prizes were choosen by the hostess at the end of the night!
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Contributor's Note
This is something that I do once a month! Lots of fun!
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Thanks for sharing. Never heard of bunko. Your meetings sound a like a US version of the Joy Luck Club. Cool! :)
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