Langur Burja is a dice game with six dice and six symbols. Families in Nepal play it during Dashain and Tihar. This page explains how the game works and how this app rolls its dice.
In courtyards, on rooftops and on street corners during the festival holidays, a cloth or paper mat goes down and a crowd gathers around a handful of dice. In India the same game is called Jhandi Munda. It is a close relative of Crown and Anchor, the dice game sailors played in Britain, which uses three dice. Langur Burja uses six.
The name comes from the two special faces, the flag (झण्डी, also called langur) and the crown (बुर्जा). The other four faces are the card suits.
House rules vary from family to family. Some return the stake when a symbol shows on exactly one die. The two-or-more rule is the one this app highlights in gold on the results strip.
This app does not decide outcomes in advance and has no way to favour any symbol. When you tap or press Space, each of the six dice gets its face from your browser's cryptographic random number generator (crypto.getRandomValues), the same source browsers use for security keys.
Each face has exactly a one-in-six chance on every die, and every die is independent of the others and of earlier rolls. The tumbling animation is drawn to land on the face already chosen. Nothing about your rolls is recorded or sent anywhere.
This app is a dice roller for fun and to keep a festival tradition alive. It has no betting, no money and no prizes. Gambling for money is illegal in Nepal under the Muluki Criminal Code, 2074. If you play with family during the festivals, keep it to small, friendly stakes, and stop if it stops being fun. If gambling is causing harm to you or someone close to you, talk to someone you trust or seek professional help.