Midnight Yacht dice game
Polished wood, a quilted leather dice tray and a harbour twinkling behind the rail. The captain, a puffin in a navy jacket and red neckerchief, salutes, shakes the cup and lets five pearl dice tumble.
Updated 13 October 2026
In-depth review: Midnight Yacht: how the dice game really works
Dice poker on the water
Midnight Yacht is a dice game from Nocturn Play based on the classic yacht dice family. You set a bet and press Roll. Five dice land in the tray, the captain keeps the ones that make the best hand and rolls the rest once more, and your final hand is paid from the ladder. There are no decisions to agonise over and no reels: one roll, one re-roll, one result. The top prize is 5,000× the bet.
The faces and the hands
Each pearl die has six nautical emblems: the compass rose, the anchor, the helm, the sextant, the shell and the pearl. Every face is equally likely. Paying hands, from the top of the ladder down, are the Royal Yacht (five compass roses), the Yacht (five of any other emblem), Four of a Kind, Full House and the Grand Tour, which means five different emblems. A pair, two pairs or three of a kind do not pay on their own.
The captain's hold follows a fixed rule that you can read in the help: a Yacht, Full House or Grand Tour is kept whole, four of a kind keeps four dice, three of a kind keeps three, two pairs keep four and a pair keeps two. She then rolls everything else once.
The Golden Die and Polaris stars
Every now and then a sixth die, the Golden Die, joins the second roll. It lands on ×2, ×3, ×5 or ×10, multiplying the hand, or on a Polaris star. Stars light up the night chart on the right, and the game remembers them between rounds, separately for each bet size. Three stars set off the Midnight Cruise.
The Midnight Cruise
The Cruise is a series of seven free rounds, one per harbour, with harbour multipliers of ×1, ×1, ×2, ×2, ×3, ×5 and ×10. Two rules make it special. Any compass rose you roll stays anchored for the rest of the trip, so the dice slowly lean toward a Royal Yacht. And the Golden Die rolls every single time, on ×1, ×2, ×3, ×5 or ×10. Hands in the Cruise are paid from their own prize table, shown in the help, which is then multiplied by the harbour and the Golden Die. A Royal Yacht in the Cruise lifts all the anchors, and a Royal Yacht in the seventh harbour with the Golden Die on ×10 pays the maximum win. The Cruise can also be bought for 65× the bet.
Come aboard
Autoplay and Turbo are there for quick sessions, and the space bar rolls on a computer. On phones the hand ladder moves above the tray. You can play Midnight Yacht for free right here. For another table-style night out, try Gilded Swan Regatta, or switch to reels with Gridiron Noir. All our games are listed on the games page.
Frequently asked questions
Do I choose which dice to keep in Midnight Yacht?
No. The captain always keeps the dice that form the best hand, following a fixed rule shown in the help, and re-rolls the others once.
What is the best hand?
The Royal Yacht: five compass roses. Next come the Yacht (five identical emblems), Four of a Kind, Full House and the Grand Tour.
How do you start the Midnight Cruise?
Collect three Polaris stars from the Golden Die. They are kept between rounds for each bet size. The Cruise can also be bought for 65× the bet.
What is the maximum win?
5,000× the bet, reached with a Royal Yacht in the last harbour of the Cruise and the Golden Die on ×10.
