Adding such gear to one’s bike is called farkling up. In colloquial speech and online forums, motorcycle riders and enthusiasts use farkle for the various gear they buy in stores and online, including lights, mounted seat additions, and GPS systems. Avid players sometimes use farkle as a verb (“let’s farkle!”) and scoring zero points on a turn is known as farkling. Farkle is played by the board-gaming community (often younger players in clubs or groups) and by older players who enjoy its simplicity. Official sets are mass-produced, but a game can also be improvised using nothing but six dice. It is known by many different names, including Wimp Out!, Hot Dice, Zilch, Zonk, among others. The backronym was used in an entry in the online Kawasaki Concours Owners Group forum, found in 1989.įarkle is still played today, with multiple versions available. One says it was created by a member of the Honda ST1100 user group, another as an early term for the multiple tail lights that Honda Goldwing riders used in the late 1980–90s that would “flash and sparkle” (thus farkle).
There are several proposed origins of this use of the word farkle. Unlike simple decorations, farkles are so-named because they add a dash of glamour to the motorcycle while still remaining useful to the rider. In 1996, an American couple created a six-dice system, copyrighted the scoring system, and trademarked the name “Farkel.” Originally selling homemade game sets, the game eventually became commercially successful, and today is owned by Legendary Games, Inc.Īs a motorcycle accessory, a farkle is named after the combination of “function” and “sparkle.” It has also been interpreted as a backronym of Fancy Accessory, Really Kool, Likely Expensive. However, there are some popular theories, including the 15th-century invention of the game by Sir Albert Farkle in Iceland, or a Texan origin theory based on dice carved out of “Farkleberries.” It is also thought that as a traditional dice game, Farkle was named for an expletive or sound one might make during play.įarkle has been trademarked numerous times beginning in the 1980s. The origins of Farkle are obscure, though various dice-based games reach back into antiquity. The first player to accumulate more than 10,000 points, as tallied by a designated score keeper, is then challenged in a final round if nobody beats their score, they are the winner. For instance, rolling three 5s earns you 500 points while a straight of 1–6 lands you 1,500. During gameplay, players roll the dice and score points based on the resulting dice combinations. Farkle is played with six dice and no maximum number of players. I’m just a guy who plays a game with 6 Wooden Dice. Go Farkle!Īnswer to common question: No I am not affiliated with Tostitos® Chips and salsa or any game company at all. 🙂 You are one of 50,000+ page views that this site gets in an average month. Search engines are pretty funny that way. Over the years, I’ve updated the look and feel a couple times to make the site a little more modern but I’ve never advertised or anything like that. I didn’t have that many friends who played Farkle.Īs time went on, more and more people found my site. I was very surprised when I noticed a couple thousand people had seen my rules in the first year. Google had been founded a year or so before my site was up and I didn’t know how at that time but they found me. (BTW- Faxing was an ancient form of communication)
The internet was getting more popular at this point so I decided to post the rules on the internet for everybody to see so we didn’t have to fax them a copy. (I have edited some typos over the years)Ī few years later in 1999 we found ourselves known as the “Farkle-Experts” and we would get calls at all hours from friends wanting to know the rules again (They lost their printouts). The rules we wrote up are the same rules listed on this site. This became our standard wedding gift during this time of our life. Īnother friend of ours was getting married and being poor college students we didn’t have much money for a wedding gift, so we typed up the rules as we had learned them, added some humor to make it a little more fun and purchased some dice to go along with them. It was a blast and we consumed lots of Tostitos® Chips and salsa. We sat and played during cold winter months for hours with a group of friends. My wife Amy and I learned to play Farkle while in College (BYU) in 1994.
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