Liar's poker

Liar's poker is an American bar game that combines statistical reasoning with bluffing, and is played with the eight digits of the
serial number on U.S. dollar bills. The digits are usually ranked with the 1 as "ace" as the highest value, followed by 0 as "10", down
to 2 as the lowest. Each player holds one bill, unseen by the other players. The objective is to guess how often a particular digit
appears among all the bills held by all the players. Each guess or bid must be higher in value or quantity than the previous bid. The
round ends when all the other players challenge a bid.

Contents
Gameplay
In popular culture
Literature
References

Gameplay
Commonly, the game is played with random bills obtained from the cash register. Each player takes a dollar bill and looks at its serial
number without letting any other players see it. The starting player makes an opening bid on how many of a particular digit appears
across all serial numbers held by the group. For example, if the first player bids three 6s, he is predicting there are at least three 6s
among all the players including himself. The next player can bid a higher number at that level (three 7s), any number at a higher level
(four 5s), or challenge the bid. The game continues clockwise around the table until a particular bid is challenged by every other
player. If the challenge is correct, and the total number of the digit on all the bills is lower than the bid, the bidder loses a dollar to
each of the other players. If the challenge is incorrect, the bidder wins a dollar
.

In popular culture
In the 1965 film Cat Ballou, the sheriff is confronted playing liar's pokerat the barn dance.
In the 1972 film "The Getaway", Steve McQueen’s character Doc McCoy challengesAli MacGraw’s character to a
game while looking at a bill, by saying "Five fours".
Elliott Gould's and Jim Bouton's characters play a round as friends in the beginning of the 1973neo noir film, The
Long Goodbye.
In the 1977 movie Semi-Tough, Burt Reynolds' and Jill Clayburgh's characters play an ongoing game of liar's poker
periodically throughout the movie.
Characters on the showQuincy M.E. were often seen playing Liar's poker.
In the WKRP in Cincinnati episode "Herb's Dad", Herb's father, and later Herb himself, play liar's poker with Johnny
and Venus.
In Season 3, episode 8 ofMagnum, P.I., "Foiled Again," Magnum and his two friends pass the time by playing liar's
poker.
In his 1989 book Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis details how Salomon Brothers traders would play liar's poker. He
recounts how John Meriwether was once challenged by CEOJohn Gutfreund to a game of liar's poker for stakes of
one million dollars and declined a counter-of fer of ten million from Merriwether.
A game of liar's poker was played in an episode of the TV seriesHustle (Season 3, Episode 3) where one of the
main characters plays and loses against two merchant bankers.
In The Wire episode Dead Soldiers, Tommy Carcetti and Anthony Gray play a game.
In the 2011 movie Hall Pass, the group of characters play a game.
Anne O Faulk's novel Holding Out uses the game as a plot point.
Literature
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis.

References
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