How to Play the Skill Games at 5Dimes

Skill Gaming has gained incredible popularity over the last few years online.  Playing Skill Games at 5Dimes gives you an opportunity to play a variety of games, chat with other members, meet interesting people and, at the same time, prove your skill by competing against others. 

Skill Games

Spades - Spades is a trick game, much like hearts or bridge.  The player with the highest ranked card wins the trick.  How to play Spades.

Tonk - The object of Tonk is to arrange as many of the five cards in your hand as possible into sets.  There are two kinds of sets: sequences and groups.  A sequence consists of three or more cards of the same suit in consecutive order, such as 4, 5, 6.  A group consists of three or four cards of the same rank, such as 7, 7, 7.  A card can belong to only one set at a time - you cannot use the same card as part of both a group and a sequence.  How to play Tonk.

Acey Deucey – Acey Deucey is online board game where each player must move his/her pieces according to the numbers shown on the throw of two dice.  The player moves his/her pieces from his/her opponent's inner table along the playing board, across to his/her outer table.  The winner of the game is the one who removes all of his/her checkers from the board first.  How to play Acey Deucey.

Backgammon - The object of backgammon is for a player to move all of his/her checkers into his/her own home board and then bear them off.  The first player to bear off all of his/her checkers wins the game.  How to play Backgammon.

Dice Poker – Dice Poker is very similar to Yahtzee.  Dice Poker is an online board game consisting of thirteen rounds.  In each round, you roll the dice and then score the roll in one of thirteen categories.  You must score once in each category -- which means that towards the end of the game, you may have to settle for scoring zero in some categories.  The object of this online board game is to maximize your total score.  The game ends once all thirteen categories have been scored.  How to play Dice Poker.

Dominoes – The object of Dominoes is to be the first person to reach the designated final score.  If a player reaches the final score during play, the game ends at that point.  How to play Dominoes.

Gin Rummy - The object of this online card game is to arrange as many of the ten cards in your hand as possible into sets.  There are two kinds of sets: sequences and groups.  A sequence consists of three or more cards of the same suit in consecutive order, such as 4, 5, 6 or 8, 9, 10, J.  A group consists of three or four cards of the same rank, such as 7, 7, 7.  A card can belong to only one set at a time - you cannot use the same card as part of both a group and a sequence.  How to play Gin Rummy.

Yahtzee - Yahtzee consists of 13 rounds.  In each round, you roll the dice and then score the roll in one of 13 categories.  You must score once in each.  The score is determined by a different rule for each category.  The game ends once all 13 categories have been scored.  How to play Yahtzee.