thumb|Mia is played with two dice and a [[dice cup]]
Mia is a simple dice game with a strong emphasis on bluffing and detecting bluff related to Liar's dice.
Equipment
Two dice and either a flat bottomed container with a lid or a dice cup are needed. This game is played by three or more players.
Play
All players start with six lives. Usually each player use a separate die to keep track of their lives, counting down from 6 to 1 as they lose lives. The players roll a single die to determine who goes first. Kariki, Kinito, Meyer, Meier, or Mire. Because the gameplay has been passed down orally, many variations and house rules exist.
Ian MacKaye named his band Coriky after the game, which the band states is popular among Washington, DC-area punk bands on tour. Steve Albini wrote that his band, Shellac, learned it from Fugazi, who in turn learned it from Citizen Fish.
Scoring variations
- 31 may be considered the 2nd best roll (called "little Mia") instead of the worst, and 32 (called "joker") may also be assigned special functions.
- The order of the rolls 66 to 11 may be reversed.
- The rolls from 31 to 65 might be represented by just stating the sum of the two dice, so that e.g. both 62 and 53 are called "8 pips" and have the same value, better than "7 pips" (including 61) but worse than "9 pips" (including 54).