Farkle is a push-your luck game played using six dice. You roll 6 dice, and remove any dice you wish to use for points. You can stop, keeping the points, or re-roll the dice remaining. Points can be scored by specific numbers (e.g. 5 or 1) or with sets of the same number. If you can use all six of the dice for points, pick them all up and keep going.

'Bank' your points and end your turn at any time but watch out, some scoring dice must be removed after every roll - if no scoring dice are rolled your turn ends and you score zero points.

The highest score over 10,000 will win the game.

In 1996, Charlie and Mary Potter, known as "Mr and Mrs Farkel", made a copyrighted scoring system and lodged various trade marks. The scoring system is proprietary to Legendary Games, Inc. Charlie began by selling product made on his kitchen table. Over the course of a decade, it became a commercial hit. In 2007 Patch launched a version of the game spelled as "Farkle" with almost the same logo design, which soon after they changed.