Liar’s Dice Pirate Barrel Set - Dice Cup Game

Liar's Dice! A Pirate Gambling Pastime

Bring a pirate tavern classic to your table or home bar with this Liar’s Dice set. Barrel-style dice cups, a wooden shipping crate storage box, and a sliding lid that doubles as a rules display turn this classic bluffing game into a themed tabletop centerpiece. Perfect fun as a drinking game or family-friendly game night!

Bring a classic bluffing cup and dice game to life like you found it washed up on shore at a nearby beach. This Liar's Dice set is designed and styled like it came straight out of a pirate's cargo hold! Bring the game to your table - or home bar - for an immensely fun game night!

Perfect for a Home Bar (or Any Game Night)

Liar’s Dice has long been a favorite social bluffing game - easy to learn, fast to play, and great for groups. It can be enjoyed as a traditional tabletop game or adapted as a lighthearted drinking game for adults, making it a great addition to a home bar setup. Of course, it’s just as fun as a family-friendly bluffing game without drinks involved.

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Features and Design

Instead of mere cups, player's use wooden barrels to roll dice. The barrels are complete with an engraved woodgrain texture that prints beautifully on most FDM printers. The dice use a pirate-style handwritten front to display the numbers, matching the theme and giving nautical character to every roll.

All of the game components store neatly inside a shipping crate-style box designed to hold four barrel cups and dice inside. The crate features sides textured with a woodgrain aesthetic to give it a rugged wood panel aesthetic of a piece of smuggled cargo pulled straight from a pirate ship's hold.

The lid slides into a built-in track on the top of the storage box that secures it in place. It features a bold “Liar's Dice” pirate-style embossed font across a deep textured wood surface. 

But the lid serves a dual-purpose.

The back of the create includes an identical built-in track as the top that stores the lid behind the box during gameplay. When placed there, the inside of the becomes a visible quick-reference rule guide which can help players learn the game while additionally serving as a themed display piece.

Whether you're hosting game night, a backyard gathering, or a home bar hangout, this set turns a simple dice game into a conversation piece.

And while it’s designed around Liar’s Dice, the cups and dice work perfectly for many other classic dice games, such as Yahtzee, Farkle, and other dice cup games.

Print Notes

• Designed for easy FDM printing
• Wood textures print nicely even at 0.2 mm layer height
• Parts print without supports but brim ears are encouraged
• Sliding lid tolerances designed for smooth movement
• 2 Print Profiles
  • Main one which requires AMS for barrels, lid, and dice.
  • No AMS/Minimal AMS version
    • Wood barrels and lid designed to layer swap filament
    • Dice print in single color but have numbers “Carved” in, as if a pirate made them from wood

    • Examples of barrel and dice with and without AMS

       

About Liar’s Dice

Players roll dice in secret under their cups and take turns bidding on how many dice of a certain value are on the table. Raise the bet or call someone’s bluff—but be careful. Lose the challenge and you lose a die. The last player with dice remaining wins.

Liar’s Dice Full Rules 

• Roll dice in barrel and flip it upside down. Keep them hidden from view of other players while you peak at them discreetly. 
• The first player bids on the quantity & value of all dice at the table (i.e., under all barrels)
  • Example: "four 3's" = at least 4 dice with the value 3 displayed at table 
• The second player either raises the bid or challenges the previous player's bid. 
  • Raise: increase quantity, value, or both (Example: “four 5’s” > “four 6’s” > “five 2’s”)
    • If raised, play then passes to the next player.
  • Challenge: yell “Liar!” if think the last bid was too high (i.e., you don't think there are that many dice of that value)
• All players reveal their dice when a bid is challenged. 
• If the bid was correct (e.g., “four 5's” and there are four or more 5's under all barrels) the challenger permanently loses one die. If the bid was wrong (e.g., fewer dice of that value under all barrels) then the bidder permanently loses one die.
• Next round starts with the player who lost one die. They can start the bidding at any value they choose.
• The last player at the table with any dice wins the game!

This model was designed for the MakerWorld Home Bar Design Contest. I wanted to create something that feels like it belongs on a tavern shelf, pirate ship, or home bar while still being a fun tabletop game for everyone to enjoy. While it makes for great fun as a drinking game (hilarity ensues as it becomes harder to keep track of numbers), it also works perfectly on its own or any time at all!

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