Yahtzee!
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Yahtzee is a chance-and-strategy dice rolling game. A game is played over 13 rounds.
Each round, the player rolls five 6-sided dice. They may click on any number of dice to “freeze” or “unfreeze” them (frozen dice are displayed in a different color). They may re-roll the unfrozen dice up to 2 times.
Each round, they must assign their dice to any unclaimed scoring category. Each category scores differently.
After 13 rounds, the game is over, and the player’s score is the total of each scoring category.
Scoring Categories:
| Category | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Ones | Score 1 for every 1 | 1 1 2 3 4 = 2 |
| Twos | Score 2 for every 2 | 1 2 2 3 4 = 4 |
| Threes | Score 3 for every 3 | 1 2 3 3 3 = 9 |
| Fours | Score 4 for every 4 | 1 2 4 4 5 = 8 |
| Fives | Score 5 for every 5 | 1 2 5 5 5 = 15 |
| Sixes | Score 6 for every 6 | 1 2 3 6 6 = 12 |
| 3 of Kind | If 3+ of one value, score sum of all dice (else score 0) | 1 2 3 3 3 = 12 |
| 4 of Kind | If 4+ of one value, score sum of all dice (else 0) | 1 2 2 2 2 = 8 |
| Full House | If 3 of one value and 2 of another, score 25 (else 0) | 2 2 3 3 3 = 25 |
| Small Straight | If 4+ values in a row, score 30 (else 0) | 1 2 3 4 6 = 30 |
| Large Straight | If 5 values in a row, score 40 (else 0) | 1 2 3 4 5 = 40 |
| Yahtzee | If all values match, score 50 (else 0) | 2 2 2 2 2 = 50 |
| Chance | Score sum of all dice | 1 2 3 4 6 = 16 |
Example Round
The initial roll is: 2 4 3 2 5
The player decides to try to get as many twos as possible, and clicks to freeze both twos, then re-rolls, getting a new 2 3 5. They now have: 2 2 3 2 5
The player decides to try for a full house, and freezes all of their twos and their three (hoping to roll another 3 to get a full house). They re-roll the die showing five, getting a 6 and now have 2 2 3 2 6
Sadly, they didn’t get their full house. They could score this as:
Twos: for 6 points
Threes: for 3 points
Sixes: for 6 points
Three of Kind: (twos) for 15 points
Chance: for 15 points
Any other category they claimed on this round would score 0