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A Yahtzee occurs when all five dice are the same. If the player throws a Yahtzee and has already filled the Yahtzee box with a score of 50, they score a Yahtzee bonus and get an extra 100 points. However, if they throw a Yahtzee and have filled the Yahtzee category with a score of 0, they do not get a Yahtzee bonus. [4]
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.
Zero Punctuation is a series of video game reviews created by English comedy writer and video game journalist Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. From its inception in 2007, episodes were published weekly by internet magazine The Escapist. Episodes typically range from five to six minutes in length.
Power Yahtzee is a variation on the classic dice game Yahtzee first published by Winning Moves Games USA in 2007. It includes a sixth multiplier die called a "Power die" and an expanded scoresheet. It includes a sixth multiplier die called a "Power die" and an expanded scoresheet.
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 ...
In April 2015, Scopely partnered with Hasbro to launch the only officially licensed Yahtzee game, Yahtzee With Buddies, on iOS, Android and the Apple Watch. [35] The game saw more than 1 million downloads in its first four days. [36] [37] In 2016, Scopely released Dice With Ellen, a Yahtzee-style dice game with Ellen DeGeneres. [38]
Hasbro Family Game Night 2 was released in 2009 for Microsoft Windows and Wii, [4] with the former replacing a planned DS version that was repurposed. Both versions feature the games Operation and Pictureka!, while the Wii version has Connect 4x4, Jenga and Bop It! and the PC version has The Game of Life, Monopoly, Clue and Yahtzee.