Yahtzee

1956
Edwin S. Lowe
BGG Geek Rating
5.5
based on 17,050 ratings
BGG Average Rating
5.5
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BGG Ranking
#27725
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Players
2-10
Weight
1.17/5.00
Playtime
30 min
Age
6+
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⚙️ Game Mechanics

How this game works - core systems and player actions

Re-rolling and Locking Set Collection Dice Rolling Push Your Luck Paper-and-Pencil

📂 Categories

Travel Travel Movies / TV / Radio theme Children's Game Dice Comic Book / Strip Music

🎨 Artists

Charles M. Schulz Fiore GmbH Peyo Taavi Oolberg

🏢 Publishers

Adam Opel AG Alga AMIGO ASS Altenburger Spielkarten Blatz Brimtoy Challenge Master Game Co Ltd Copp Clark Publishing Company Dal Negro danspil Dexy Co Dilemma Games Diset S. A. Drechsler Dujardin E. S. Lowe Company Inc. EastPoint Editrice Giochi ESC-Toy Ltd F.X. Schmid Four Esses Fun Connection General Mills Goldmerk Gorden Designs Grow Jogos e Brinquedos Hasbro Hayes Specialties Corporation (HSC) Hearth & Hand with Magnolia Heye Verlag HUCH! Joker Jumbo Klee Korea Boardgames Kärnan Lucrum Games Mandoo Games MB Giochi MB Jeux MB Spellen MB Spiele Milton Bradley Noris Spiele Palet spil Papita Parker Brothers Peri Spiele Piatnik (Public Domain) Ravensburger Remember RIWA Spiele RUBY-TOYS Schmidt Spiele Selecta Spel en Hobby Super Impulse Tactic Teepe Sportverlag The Op Games (Unknown) Waddingtons Winning Moves Games (USA) Winning Solutions (WS Game Company)

📖 About This Game

Yahtzee is a classic dice game played with 5 dice. Each player's turn consists of rolling the dice up to 3 times in hope of making 1 of 13 categories. Examples of categories are 3 of a kind, 4 of a kind, straight, full house, etc. Each player tries to fill in a score for each category, but this is not always possible. When all players have entered a score or a zero for all 13 categories, the game ends and total scores are compared. The traditional (public domain) game Yacht predates the trademarked game, and has slightly different scoring. There are four basic scoring difference between the tradition game Yacht and Yahtzee. They are: 1) Yacht has no Three of a Kind category, 2) there are no bonuses in Yacht, 3) there are no Joker rules in Yacht, and 4) the Full House category is scored as the sum of the dice. The other scoring rules are identical between the two games. Travel versions of the game use a device that keeps the dice captured within compartments of a plastic box and allows players to "lock" a particular die between rolls.