I’m behind in blogging. Been a crazy and tiring week.
Bunco is a dice game, described by wikipedia as “housewife’s drinking game”. It’s very easy to play. Tables of four players take turns rolling three dice. You get a point if the number on the dice matches the value of the round you’re playing, so starting with 1, if you roll a one you get one point, two ones two points, three ones three points. If you roll no points, the next player rolls. You’re on a team with the person across from you, and the round ends as soon as one of the head table teams hits 21 (they ring a bell so everyone knows to stop). The team with the most points at your table, wins. Then, you move on to the next round, 2, and repeat when the dice values match 2. This repeats up to round 6. If you roll three of a kind, you get bunco which is 21 points if it matches the number round you’re in, or 5 points if it’s any other set of numbers except 1. If you roll 1s, “snake eyes” your points clear and you start from zero (unless you’re in round 1, in which case it’s a bunco). Winners rotate tables (unless you’re at the head table). If you get a bunco, you get to wear a lei. You keep track of your mini buncos, buncos, team wins, losses, various stats…and at the end you get prizes for all sorts of things.
They hosted in O’Club, the officer’s club on base. This a new friend of mine, we carpooled together. She actually reached out to me about it which encouraged me to go. (Fun, life in Hawaii tangent, she had a cockroach in her car, so I drove)
It was a lot of fun, mostly because there is zero skill involved so I can’t really get mad at winning or losing. I think it’s kinda hard to socialize, because it’s so fast paced. All in all, I’d definitely go again.