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The scoring categories have varying point values, some of which are fixed values and others for which the score depends on the value of the dice. A Yahtzee is five-of-a-kind and scores 50 points, the highest of any category. The winner is the player who scores the most points. Yahtzee was marketed by the E.S. Lowe Company from 1956 until 1973.
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]
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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.
Generala is a game played by two or more players. Players take turns rolling five dice. After each roll, the player chooses which dice (if any) to keep, and which to reroll. A player may reroll some or all of the dice up to two times on a turn, making a maximum of three rolls each turn.
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
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. Each week featured a different hostess serving as "dice girl", including Kelly Grant, Denise DiRenzo, and Teresa Ganzel.
Crag is played with three six-sided dice. Crag is a dice game similar to Yacht, Yahtzee, and Yatzy.It is played with three dice. [1] The game is quicker to play than Yahtzee, [2] and in Clement Wood and Gloria Goddard's 1940 Complete Book of Games, it is described as a game that "shares with Yacht the supremacy among sequence dice-casting games".