Why Is Tenzi the Ultimate Family Night Game?

Tenzi is one of those games that works for almost all ages (except the ages 0 – 3) which is why it’s one of our top recommendations as the ultimate family night game.

Have you played it yet?

If you haven’t, we highly recommend it — and I’ll share why.

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How to Play Tenzi

Tenzi is a very simple dice game for 2 – 4 players. It’s fast pace and lots of fun.

The object: Get all 10 of your dice to show the same number. (Yes, it can be any number you pick!) I know it sounds almost too easy, but believe me, it’s engaging and exciting.

(Also, I will admit that it’s great for sleepy parents who can’t do much more than roll dice.)

In the photo below, you can see that color groups are starting. Yellow fives. Pink ones. White threes. This gives you the idea of how to you’ll want to notice groups of numbers.

To play:

1. Choose your color.

2. At “go,” everyone rolls all their dice at the same time.

3. After rolling, players look to see what number they have most, then choose the number they will try to collect 10 of. What do you think the black die player should pick? Maybe ones?

4. Keep rolling the remaining dice that aren’t the number you’re collecting. Roll until you get all your dice to be that number.

5. The first player to get all ten of the same number shouts, “Tenzi,” and wins the game.

Tenzi Game Variations

From the Tenzi website and the book below, we learned about several fun variations that we love.

Double Sets

If it’s only two players, we use double sets of dice and try to get twentyzi. (I know, it’s not as catchy.)

Splitzi

Try to get 5 of one number and 5 of another number.

Target Tenzi

Players must pick a number to go for before rolling.

Add and Subtract

I haven’t done this yet, but I think there are many possibilities for using addition and subtraction with Tenzi, don’t you? You could set a number such as 15, and the first one to get to it using addition or subtraction wins. Something along those lines.

But wait! There’s more. . . .

In fact, there are 77 MORE ways to play Tenzi. At least according to this deck of Tenzi variation cards. Who knew!? 🙂

And that’s why Tenzi is the ultimate family game night game!

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