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Yahtzee is a dice game made by Milton Bradley (a company that has since been acquired and assimilated by Hasbro). It was first marketed under the name of Yahtzee by game entrepreneur Edwin S. Lowe in 1956. The game is a development of earlier dice games such as Poker Dice, Yacht and Generala.
Yacht dates back to at least 1938, and is a contemporary of the similar three-dice game Crag. [1] Yahtzee is a later development, similar to Yacht in both name and content. The name Yacht is also used for a number of later dice games that include many features of Yahtzee, being closer to Yahtzee than the original Yacht game. [3] [4]
Generala is a dice game similar to the English game of poker dice, the German game Kniffel, and the Polish game Jacy-Tacy (yahtzee-tahtzee). [1] The American variant of Generala, Yahtzee , is the most popular variant.
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Players take turns rolling five dice. After each roll, the player chooses which dice to keep, and which to reroll. A player may reroll some or all of the dice up to two times on a turn. The player must put a score or zero into a score box each turn. The game ends when all score boxes are used. The player with the highest total score wins the game.
A number of related games under the Yahtzee brand have been produced. They all commonly use dice as the primary tool for game play, but all differ generally. As Yahtzee itself has been sold since 1954, the variants released over the years are more recent in comparison, with the oldest one, Triple Yahtzee, developed in 1972, eighteen years after the introduction of the parent game.
GameHouse's Yahtzee game for Windows includes a "Power Yahtzee" game, but this one is different from the Winning Games set as this game is actually a multi-level version of standard Yahtzee with the use of special power-ups to help a player get ahead in a game and hinder an opponent from doing the same.
Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, the star of The Escapist's videogame review series, quits the website in protest.