Yahtzee
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Oct. 15th, 2006 | 01:24 am
Yahtzee is a game played with five 6-sided dice. Players take turns rolling the dice, and trying to get certain types of rolls, each with an assigned point value, as summarized in the following table. Players are allowed a total of three rolls, with any subset of dice capable of being set aside at each roll. In addition to runs of a single number, other rolls include 3 of a kind (three of the same number), 4 of a kind (four of the same number), full house (two of one number and three of another), small straight (4 numbers in a row), large straight (5 numbers in a row), Yahtzee (five of the same number), and chance (any roll).
In addition to points scored by obtaining various rolls of the dice, 35 bonus points are awarded if the total score from the first six categories exceeds 62. |