Definitions

Players

You need 2 or more people to play Zonk. They should all be marijuana smokers capable of downing bong rips (avg. 8 hits per game.) Games average 45 minutes with 3-4 players, but can last 15 minutes to 1 1/2 hours.

Equipment

To play Zonk, you need 5 six-sided dice. You also need a pen and paper (preferably lined notebook paper) or a Zonk Score Sheet. You have to play on a decent-sized and smooth table. Get a Bong and Some Marijuana. (Games have been played with bowls and one-hitters, but it's just not the same). As I've been told, "official Zonk dice" are dice that have a single star instead of a "one"- but play with what you can get.

Scoring

When rolling dice, only certain die are scoring die:

					= 100 Points
					=  50 Points
					=  300 Points (3 of a kind)
					=  600 Points (3 of a kind)
					= 1000 Points (3 of a kind)
					= 1000 Points (Straw Hat)
					= 1000 Points (Straw Hat)

Once you roll, you can either keep the score of the dice you have on the table, or you can re-roll the remaining non-scoring dice in hopes of getting a better score. You must keep at least one scoring die to continue rolling- you can re-roll scoring dice as long as you keep one scoring die. For example, if you roll two 1's you can keep one of the 1's and reroll the other with the non-scoring dice.

If when you re-roll the dice, none of the newly rolled dice are scoring, (say a 6, 6, and 3) you Zonk and receive no points. You do NOT receive points for the dice you rolled on your first turn. You only earn points when you stay and relinquish your turn to the next player without zonking.

If you roll the dice so that all five dice you rolled are scoring, (known as all-scoring dice) you are now in Limbo. This means you count the points you have and roll a new hand. You cannot stay- you HAVE to keep rolling! You then add your current score to the score you had in Limbo. If you Zonk, you lose ALL points. It is possible to roll an infinite number of points as long as you keep rolling all-scoring die and don't zonk.

Score Tracking

A Basic Scoring Sheet Looks Like This:

Keeping track of scores is easy.. just add what people make on each roll to what they already had. If they get no points, write in "Zonk". If they earn a bong hit, (either every 1000 points or other circumstances), you put an asterisk (*) next to the round they just played for each bong hit that they earned.

If your score is equal to a special number, you get a bong hit. Traditional special numbers are 4200, 5150, and 6900.

Rules

Violation of any of the following rules results in a zonk.

1. If you're in the middle of a hand and you zonk, it's the next person's turn.
2. If it is not your turn and you zonk, you will be skipped on your next turn. Zonks are cumulative.
3. Dice must all be picked up at once in one sweeping motion. Dropped dice or "sloppy dice" will count as a Zonk.
4. You may not touch the dice unless it is your turn.
5. You may not call a person by any name but their nick-name for the game.
6. You may not pick your own nick-name.
7. In rolling, you may not hit anything else on the table. (cups, bong, other people)
8. In Re-rolling, you may not hit any of the dice you kept.
9. Any time you roll dice, at least one of the dice you roll must be scoring.
10. In keeping die, you MAY move them to a different part of the table by sliding them. If you flip a die, you zonk.
11. Once you touch a die, you must keep it. (unless you're picking it up to re-roll it)
12. If you touch a die you can't keep, you zonk. (unless you're picking it up to re-roll it)
13. If you break up a straw hat, you zonk. Example, if you roll a 1,2,3,4,5 you cannot keep the one and five and re-roll the rest. A straw hat is all scoring dice (see next rule) and worth 1000 points.
14. You must continue rolling if you get all-scoring die because you're in Limbo.
15. You must remember your own score when you're in Limbo. If you ask the scorekeeper to record an incorrect score, you zonk. The scorekeeper must announce the score he's keeping so that others may verify that it is correct.
16. If you "space" and it's your turn, you get zonked. An average time is 10 seconds. So if it's 10 seconds into your turn and you're sitting there picking your nose and humming along to Terrapin Station, you zonk. If you have a valid reason and announce it, you can delay your roll. (Like if you're packing the bowl).

1. You can ask the score keeper to repeat names and scores at any time.
2. No one has the responsibility to tell you what your current score is in limbo, but they can if they want to.
3. If you can cheat and not get caught, go for it.
4. You cannot delay and rack-up bong hits. Bong hits are taken in the order that they are earned (and shown in the score sheet). If your turn comes around again and you haven't taken your hits yet, a delay of game occurs until the bong gets passed around and everyone catches up.
5. If you can't physically take your bong hit, you zonk for each turn that comes around until you can take it.
6. Depending on the weed owner's preference, either s/he packs the bowl when it's cached, or he may opt that whoever it caches on has to pack it. S/he may also elect a bowl-tender who must keep the bowl packed.

Zonk Variations

Thanks for this version of the game Patrick S. & keep on Zonking!!

1. What you call a "Straw Hat" is what we call a "social". A social is worth 0 points, but thats ok. A social has a far greater reward than a few measley points. Everyone takes a hit on a social. During this time, the rules of zonk are suspended, you may call people by their Christian name, you may smoke a cigarette without permission, you may get up to refresh your drink without asking, etc. You also get a star by your name. A person with two or more socials than the next highest person (eg you have 4 and another player has 1) you are a "Socialite". It doesn't matter how many points your roll is worth, if you get a social, your roll is over, you get zero points and a star. But it does not have to be rolled at once, you can roll a 5, then a 1, and then the 2, 3, and 4.
   
2. YOU pick your Zonk name. Others can suggest it, but yours is the final decision.
   
3. Three ones is worth 300 points. The logic behind this is if 3 die of the same face are rolled they are worth face value x 100. face value of a 1 x 100 is 100. But three ones rolled seperately is 300. Therefore 3 ones is 300. But 3 2s is 200.
   
4. There are no sympathy hits.
   
5. It is dishonorable to sit on anything less than 350. You can do it for a toke, but otherwise its frowned upon. The only exception to this rule is 3 3s. 333 is the mark of the nazi duck (its a very long story...). if you roll 3 3's and you continue to roll, it will end in a zonk. The same goes for 3 6s.
   
6. Any non-scoring dice you have left are referred to as Gusto. Always go for the gusto. You will laughed at if you have 4 gusto and you sit.
   
7. Three-of-a-kind must be rolled at ONCE. In order to get 400 pts, all 3 4s must be rolled at the same time. So say you roll 1 2 3 3 5 thats 150 pts. You must keep the scoring dice on the table, or you will lose your turn. You roll the non scoring dice and get 1 4 5. Thats another 150 points, bringing your total to 300. You have one gusto. Or say you roll 1 2 3 3 5. Thats 150 points, you roll the non scoring dice and get 4 4 4 thats 400 points brining your total to 550. You are now in limbo (we refer to it as 5 gusto) and you must roll.
   
8. Permission must be asked to get up at anytime or to smoke a cigerette at the zonk board.
   
9. A Zonk board must be created, winners put their name on it and all players may draw on it at will.
   
10. Cheating is a definite no-no. Lady Luck sees all and will punish you for cheating.
    
11. Rules can be changed, added, or removed by a simple majority of the players at the board, even newbies.
    
12. You don't have to pick them all up in one sweeping motion, but if you shake the dice, you zonk. No shaking is STRICTLY enforced.
    
13. You cannot use your hand to stop a die from rolling off the zonk board.
    
14. At the end of the zonk game, everyone who has social stars by their name can roll as many times as they have stars. if one person rolls a social, then everyone gets to take as many hits as they have stars by their name.

I'm probably forgetting a few things, and I'm not trying to tell you how to play, but these are our house rules and I thought i'd share them!

Happy zonking!