How To Play Yahtzee - A Simple Overview

What You Need

What You Need

Besides the dice, you only really need a pencil and paper. This is for you to keep track of the scoring, because the numbers sure can get complicated over time! You really don't need much of an inventory to play Yahtzee!

What To Do On Your Turn

During your turn, you're allowed to roll the dice up to 3 times. It's really up to your strategy. If you want, you can stop after 1 roll. Or, you could continue to 2 or 3. Plus you only roll all 5 dice on the first roll of that turn. Subsequently it is really up to you. As I said, it really depends on the strategy you are looking to implement.

Scoring

This is where things can get pretty messy. In general, you'll be drawing a scoresheet with a column of boxes. And once all boxes have been used, the game ends. If on a particular turn, you don't score any points, you must enter a Zero in that box. Basically, no matter what, you need to fill up a box every turn.So how do you score points then?

There are 2 sections, the Upper and the Lower.In the Upper section you can score by Aces, Twos, Threes, Fours, Fives and Sixes.For Aces, the total adds up to all the ones you've rolled. For twos, it's the total of twos rolled. For Threes, its the total of threes, an so on.So basically, An Ace gives you a point. A two gives you 2. And so on.

Upon completion of the upper section, as long as you have a score of over 63, you get a 35 point ponus. As such, the perfect score for the upper section is 140 (you have to score a 5 for Aces, Twos, Threes, Fours, Fives and Sixes).In the Lower Section, the scoring method is somewhat similar to poker.You can roll a 3 of a kind, 4 of a kind, straight, full houseand a Yahtzee.For the 3 of a kind and 4 of a kind, you merely add up the all the numbers of shown on the dice.

For a full house, you score a 25.A small straight gives you 30 points. You get a small straight if 4 of the 5 dice rolled form a straight.

A large straight gives you 40 points. It occurs when all 5 dice give you a sequence.A Yahtzee is worth 50 points. You get this when all dice give you the same number. If on your next turn, you roll a Yahtzee again, you get a Yahtzee Bonus, and hence a 100 points.As mentioned earlier, the game ends when all boxes have been filled up. And the winner is the person who scores the most points.So there you have it. It's really quite simple to play Yahtzee! Anyone could pick it up right?

by: Joyce Campbell

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