Quick fun dice game (Yahtzee)

Member Name: Linnyg

Product:	Yahtzee
Date:	13/07/09 (9 review reads)
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Advantages: Ideal for travel

Disadvantages: None

Yahtzee is a great little game that is ideal for travel, consisting of only five dice and a pad of scoresheets. Each turn you roll the five dice and can decide to keep the numbers or reroll up to four dice. You can then keep or reroll once more. With the five numbers you end up with you choose where on the scoresheet to enter them. You are trying to fill up various categories, such as straights, full house or four of a kind.

The idea is that at the end of the round you should ideally have something in each category and you score points for each category. The skill comes in deciding which dice to keep and which category to aim for as if your numbers can't fit into a remaining category then you score zero for a category, which needs to be avoided as much as possible.

Mathaticians might enjoy working out all the probabilities during the game, but this isn't necessary to enjoy it. It can be played solo, where you just try to score as high as possible. Or you can play it with other players to see who gets the highest score. Children can use it to learn about probability and numbers but it is a quick fun game for adults too.

Summary: Skill and luck of the dice