Vs. Computer
Practice or challenge a CPU opponent any time — no second player needed.
No sign-up. No ads. Just the game.
The classic dice race game your family already knows. Now in your pocket.
Dhayam is the traditional South Indian dice-and-token race game — race your tokens around the board, cut your opponent, and race Home first. Play against the computer, pass the phone around, or invite a friend online with a simple room code.
Free to play. No account required. No ads, ever.
Features
Everything you need for game night
One app, three ways to play, and the rule tweaks to match how your family has always played.
Pass & Play
Hand the phone around for local multiplayer on one device.
Play Online
Invite a friend with a simple room code — no sign-up or account required.
Customizable Rules
Tune entry rolls, extra turns, safe houses, and banked rolls to match your family's way of playing.
Four Board Skins
Hand-crafted board art — Ruby, Emerald, Ivory, and Sapphire.
Track Your Streaks
Wins, losses, and streaks tracked separately for CPU and online play.
How to Play
Easy to learn, hard to put down
Roll, race, and cut your way Home. The full rules are built right into the app, but here's the gist.
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Objective
Move all your tokens from reserve, around the shared ring, and into your own home path before your opponent does.
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Basic Movement
Roll a 1 — a "Dhaayam" — to bring a token onto the board, then move it by the number rolled. Rolls of 1, 5, 6, or 12 grant an extra turn.
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Cutting
Land exactly on an opponent's token to send it back to reserve and earn another turn. Safe houses protect tokens resting on them.
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Winning
Peel onto your private home path near the end of the ring — an exact roll is needed to land on Home. First one home wins.
One coin's route, start to Home
Every square belongs to one of these stages — trace the arrows to see how a coin gets home.
Reserve
Private path
Shared path
Safety square
Lock gate
Danger square
Home
- Reserve — every coin starts here and needs a roll of 1 (Dhaayam) to enter play.
- Private path — your own entry lane and home stretch; only your coins ever travel here, so they can't be cut.
- Shared path — the common ring both players travel; this is where coins from either side can meet and cut each other.
- Lock gate — the checkpoint at the end of the ring; you can't cross into your home stretch until you've cut at least one opponent coin.
- Safety square — a marked tile where a coin can never be cut, no matter who lands there. Only one player can occupy it at a time.
- Danger square — the last waiting cell before Home. A coin here needs an exact 1 to finish — but if the opponent reaches their own danger square first, it gets cut back to reserve.
- Home — the finish; get all your coins here first to win.
Play your way
Built to feel right, every time you open it
Dhayam 1 keeps the game simple and the details satisfying — hand-crafted board art, real sound effects, and haptic feedback for every roll, move, and cut.
- Four hand-crafted board skins to choose from
- Satisfying sound effects and haptic feedback
- Clean, focused, dark-themed interface
- Quick-undo for a mis-tap in pass & play and practice
Ready to play?
Grab a friend, or don't — Dhayam 1 is ready whenever you are.