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Yatzy Score card with dice. Yatzy is a dice game similar to Yacht and Yahtzee. It is related to the Latin American game Generala and the English game of poker dice. Yatzy is most popular in the Nordic countries.
Yatzy is one of the most popular. Yatzy rules and scoring categories are somewhat different from Yahtzee: [18] The bonus for reaching 63 or more points in the Upper Section is normally 50 points. There are two extra boxes for the One Pair and Two Pairs categories. These score the total of the pair(s) involved.
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.
Benjamin Richard "Yahtzee" Croshaw (born 24 May 1983) is a British journalist, video game critic, author, comedian, humourist, video game developer, and audiobook narrator.
Yahtzee is an American game show that premiered on January 11, [2] [3] 1988. Based on the dice game Yahtzee, the show was hosted by Peter Marshall, with Larry Hovis serving as both the show's announcer and a regular panelist.
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Yacht [1] is a public domain dice game, similar to the Latin American game Generala, the English game of Poker Dice, the Scandinavian Yatzy, and Cheerio. [2] 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.
Generala is played with five dice. 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]