The player whose bid is announced as correct is safe, even if his bid is wrong; only the player who said Calza risks having his number of dice change. Generally bewildered, I remember being beckoned over to a table where, without a word of Chinese to my name, attempts at communication reduced me to oscillating between apologetic smiles and increasingly creative hand gestures. Every year Paul Lamond host the Perudo Championships in London, where fans of the game are able to battle it out to be crowned World Perudo Champion.

In this case the player announces Dudo (pronounced Doudo, which means “I doubt”) and all players reveal their dice. When any player is down to just having one die left in their cup they are declared palafico, which means that the bidding rules in that round are changed slightly so that players can only raise the quantity of dice, not the value in the bids as they go around the table. One of these is that part way through the bidding you can change what you are bidding on from a number on the dice to aces.Each player starts having five dice and a cup, which is used for shaking the dice and concealing the dice from the other players.

It is a fantastic game and great way of getting family and friends together, with an incredible knack for bringing the competitive side out of the most unexpecting. All dice are then shown and, if the guess is not correct, the previous player (the player who made the bid) loses a die.OBJECTIVE OF PERUDO: The objective of Perudo is to not lose your dice before other players do while making bids on the dice rolled by everyone.