What is 5 of a kind in 10,000 dice game?

Five of a kind scores 2000 points in the standard 10,000 rules, and it is never an instant win. Its just a scoring combination, so you bank the points and can keep rolling the remaining dice if youve got any, or pass if you dont. The 3000 figure comes from house rules, usually when people want to speed the game up, and some tables even allow you to reroll the fifth die as a free bonus, but thats a variant, not the baseline.

Five ones are also 2000, not the 1000 youd expect from four ones, so the pattern holds no matter which number you rolled. Four ones, for comparison, score 1000, and four of any other number scores nothing on its own unless you turn it into a pair of pairs. The 10,000 game is often confused with Farkle, and theyre related but not identical.

Farkle uses the same 2000 for five of a kind, but the banking rules differ, mainly around when you can stop and how you handle a farkle. You can force a farkle, or you can pass after one scoring die, while 10,000 usually requires you to bank each turn and lock in your score. So for Friday, tell your friend that five 3s is 2000, and if he wants 3000, hes got to convince the table to adopt a house rule first.

Standard is 2000, no instant win. Some groups play 3000 or let you reroll the fifth die, but thats house rules. Farkle also gives 2000 for five of a kind, but banking is stricter there. Five ones are 2000 too, not the 1000 youd get from four ones.

We play 3000 in our group, but the real rule is 2000, so the disagreement is just house rules. Last month I rolled five 6s and banked right away, won the round by a mile, so dont overthink it.