Poker dice

Jeux du Poker - Joker aux Dés

These French made poker dice, probably from celluloid rather than Bakelite, are bilingual. The flimsy instruction leaflet is in French only.

You can see the twin lettering of
R for Roi and K for King
D Dame and Q Queen
V Valet and J Jack

The leaflet refers to the Jack as a Joker.

The count is from nine to ace, i.e six values as there are six sides to a dice (or die if you prefer), but as there are only five dice, I can only show five faces upwards. You can see nine pips on the dice showing ten pips.

As there are no suits, certain regular poker hands cannot be made, for instance a flush or a straight flush.

You can however, have five of a kind, such as fives aces.

If you produced five aces in a regular poker session, with playing cards, while playing in a saloon bar on a rickety table, on a sawdust strewn floor, then before you could say "Pass the Spittoon", you would probably end up with a sixth ace drilled neatly in your forehead by a Colt 45 or perhaps a dainty, pearl handled Derringer.