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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.
Owzthat simulates a cricket game with two teams. One person can play both teams, or different people can play for each of the two teams. Score should be kept by recording the numbers of runs achieved and tracking the number of wickets that have fallen, for example using pencil and paper.
The game is played with 10 black-lettered dice and three red-lettered dice. Each player, initially, rolls the 10 black-lettered dice. The player must rearrange them into as many words as possible within a certain time while reusing the letters repeatedly. Points are scored according to the length of each word and the number of words made.
Patterned after the success of collectible card games, a number of collectible dice games have been published. [1] Although most of these collectible dice games are long out-of-print, there is still a small following for many of them. Some collectible dice games include: Battle Dice; Dice Masters; Diceland; Dragon Dice
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.
The actual origins of the game are not clear; some of the earliest documentation comes from 1893, when Stewart Culin reported that Cee-lo was the most popular dice game played by Chinese-American laborers, although he also notes they preferred to play Fan-Tan and games using Chinese dominoes such as Pai Gow or Tien Gow rather than dice games.
This is also known as "Say what you see", a reference to Roy Walker's catch phrase from the TV game show Catchphrase. 2012 – All 12 are up, but use a 20-sided die rather than the pair of 6 dice: 20-sided die playing 12 numbers. It is also possible to play extended versions in which each game is a "round" of a longer game.
Each game consists of six rounds, numbered one to six in the order played. Players take turns rolling three dice. One point is awarded for each die rolled that matches the current round number, 5 points are awarded if all three dice match each other, but do not match the current round number, and 21 points if all three dice match the current round number (a "bunco").