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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.
Yahtzee rules and scoring categories are somewhat different from Yatzy: [1] The bonus for reaching 63 or more points in the Upper Section is 35 points. Yahtzee does not have the One Pair and Two Pairs categories. The Three of a Kind and Four of a Kind categories are scored using the total of all the dice.
Scoring is the same as normal except that, if the Upper Section box corresponding to the Yahtzee has been used, the Full House, Small Straight and Large Straight categories can be used to score 25, 30 or 40 (respectively) even though the dice do not meet the normal requirement for those categories. In this case the Yahtzee is said to act as a ...
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There are no Yahtzee bonuses or Joker rule. There are a number of differences to the category names compared to Yahtzee. Aces is often called Ones, Large Straight is called Big Straight (there is no four-dice "Small Straight" category in Yacht), Yahtzee is called Yacht and Chance is called Choice. The order of the categories on the score sheet ...
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. [2]
2 Pair Same Color Two pairs of numbers having the same color (1-1-6-6; 2-2-5-5; or 3-3-4-4); fifth die can be anything. Any Four-of-a-Kind, same-colored Full House, or Kismet can also be scored under this category. Sum of all dice 3 of a Kind Three or more dice having the same number. Sum of all dice Straight 1-2-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5-6