1. You need the following equipment: 3 dice for every table; 1 Bunco score sheet for every player; One Bunco table tally for every table

2. You need the following equipment : A bell for the head table; One pencil for every player.

3. A player at the head table rings a bell to signal the beginning and end of each round.

4. At the end of every round, players change partners and/or tables.

5. Number the tables as #1, #2, etc. Players switch tables and seats between each round. You can use the Bead Game Boards as "tables".

6. Designate one player as scorekeeper at each table. The scorekeeper uses the table tally to track each team's points.

1. There are six rounds, progressing in order from one to six, where the number of the round serves as the target for that round's rolls.

2. Within a round, players alternate turns rolling three dice, aiming to obtain the target number.

3. Players gain one point for each die matching the target.

4. If the player gets three-of-a-kind of the target number (a Bunco), they get 21 points.

5. The round stops when a player at a head table obtains 21 points. Whoever wins the most rounds is the overall winner.

6. Each player gets one Bunco score card. At the end of each round, each individual player's score is recorded on the score sheet.

When the head table has earned 21 points, the round is over. The head table rings a bell to signal that the round has ended.

1. Bunco originated from 19th-century England where it was known as "eight dice cloth".

2. in 1855 it was imported to San Francisco as a gambling activity, where it gave its name to gambling parlors, or "Bunco parlors", and more generally to any swindle.

3. After the Civil War in North America, the game evolved to be a popular parlor game. During the 1920s and Prohibition era, Bunco was re-popularized as a gambling game, often associated with a speakeasy. Law-enforcement groups raiding these parlors came to be known as "Bunco squads". Bunco as a family game saw a resurgence in popularity in the 1980s.