How To Play Yatzy
Object of the game
The object of Yahtzee is to obtain the highest score from throwing 5 dice.
The game consists of 13 rounds. In each round, you roll the dice and then
score the roll in one of 13 categories. You must score once in each
category.
The score is determined by a different rule for each category.
The game ends once all 13 categories have been scored.
Game Start
To start with, roll all the dice. After rolling you can either score the
current roll (see below), or re-roll any or all of the dice.
You may only roll the dice a total of 3 times. After rolling 3 times you
must choose a category to score.
You may score the dice at any point in the round, i.e. it doesn't have to be
after the 3rd roll.
Scoring
To score your combination of 5 dice, you click one of the 13 boxes. There
are two sections to the score table
- the Upper Section and the Lower Section.
Once a box has been scored, it cannot be scored again for the rest of the
game (except the Yahtzee category), so choose wisely.
Upper Section Scoring
If you score in the upper section of the table, your score is the total of
the specified die face.
So if you roll:
5 - 2 - 5 - 6 - 5 and score in the Fives category, your total for the
category would be 15, because there are three fives, which are added
together.
If the One, Three or Four Categories were selected for scoring with this
roll, you would score a zero because you did not roll a 1, a 3 or a 4.
If placed in the Two or Six category, you would score 2 and 6 respectively.
Bonus If the total of Upper scores is 63 or more, add a bonus of 35. Note
that 63 is the total of three each of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 6s.
Lower Section Scoring
In the lower scores, you score either a set amount, or zero if you don't
satisfy the category requirements.
3 and 4 of a kind For 3 of a kind you must have at least 3 of the same die
faces. You score the total of all the dice. For 4 of a kind you would need 4
die faces the same.
Small and Large Straight A Straight is a sequence of consecutive die faces,
where a small straight is 4 consecutive faces, and a large straight 5
consecutive faces.
Small straights score 30 and a large 40 points.
So if you rolled:
2 - 3 - 2 - 5 - 4
you could score 30 in small straight because you have 2, 3, 4 and a 5 which
makes up a small straight. You would need either a 1 or a 6 to score this in
large straight.
Full House A Full House is where you have 3 of a kind and 2 of a kind. Full
houses score 25 points.
i.e.:
3 - 3 - 2 - 3 - 2
would score 25 in the Full House category.
First Yahtzee A Yahtzee is 5 of a kind and scores 50 points, although you
may elect NOT to score it as a yahtzee, instead choosing to take it as a top
row score and safe guard your bonus.
As you may noticed, even though Yahtzee is based on 5 dice the rules are
similar to other 5 card based games like poker.
Additional Yahtzees. If you roll a second Yahtzee in a game, and you scored
your first yahtzee in the Yahtzee box, you would score a further bonus 100
points in the yahtzee box. You must also put this roll into another
category, as follows;
-If the corresponding Upper section category is not filled then you must
score there.
ie if you rolled 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 and the Fours Category is not filled, you
must put the score in the Fours category.
-If the corresponding Upper section category is filled you may then put the
score anywhere on the Upper Section (scoring zero). In 3 of a Kind, 4 of a
Kind, and Chance categories you would score the total of the die faces. For
the Small Straight, Large Straight, and Full House categories, you would
score
30, 40 and 25 points respectively.
Chance You can roll anything and be able to put it in the Chance category.
You score the total of the die faces.
Scratch or Dump scores.
You can score any roll in any category at any time, even if the resulting
score is zero. E.G, you can take 2-3-3-4-6 in the 5's category. It will
score 0. This could be used near the end of a game to lose a poor roll
against a difficult-to-get category that you've failed to fill (eg, long
straight or yahtzee).
Hope this explains the game to where you can start playing, it is a fun
game!
Try practicing with a bot to get the hang of playing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sharonda Greenlaw
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 11:56 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: dice world username
I'm joining this convo by saying that my DiceWorld username is
Sharonda3570 and I play pretty much the same games--Farkle, 1,4,24,
and 3's and Pig. I can do these with or without bonus, just depends on
what you want. I don't play Yatzy but wish someone would teach me. I
don't do Baloot either.
On 10/17/15, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
Hi. My username for Dice World is BBS. I like bonus games but will play
non-bonus games if that's what my opponent prefers. I play Farkle, 3's, 1,
4, 24 and sometimes Pig depending on if I have the patience for it. I will
not play Ballot or Yahtzee so if you challenge me to those two you'll be
in
for a rejection.
Shawn
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Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
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On Oct 17, 2015, at 1:33 PM, don bishop <w6...@donbishop.org> wrote:
Hi, Well, guess I might as well throw my diceworld username in here. My
username is donbleddeain" and I mostly play farkle (bonus) sometimes
1-14-24.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: chris <challswor...@icloud.com <mailto:challswor...@icloud.com>>
To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2015 11:18 am
Subject: Re: dice world username
Hi
My username is christopher916. I play all games but prefer not to play
Balut. My favourite is Farkle and am very good at that. Have beaten
opponents several times now.
On 17/10/2015 15:12, Regina Alvarado wrote:
Since everyone has been giving their username for dice world, mine is
dogmana and not particularly good at ballut but will play. Anything
else
with or without bonus I will play. Thanks.
reggie & Lex
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