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Yatzy can be played solitaire or by any number of players. 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.
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 pilot was released on YouTube in December 2008. [74] [75] [76] In October 2009, a trailer for the first season was released. [77] In November 2009, CNET reported that the show was "looking for international funding". [10] The show was ultimately never picked up.
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.
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.
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.
Second Wind is a video-based entertainment outlet focusing on video games and other forms of popular media. The group received significant media attention upon its formation, having been founded by former video team members of The Escapist media outlet, including editor in chief Nick Calandra and star talent Yahtzee Croshaw. [2]
Since Power Yahtzee was developed with the addition of a sixth die, it is also possible to play standard Yahtzee with a Power Yahtzee set by setting the Power die aside.