Yahtzee Bonus: If a player gets extremely lucky and rolls his second Yahtzee and his Yahtzee box already has 50 points due to the previous one he scored, he gets a bonus of 100 points.

Yahtzee: If the dice show 5 of the same number.Chance: The player can score in this box with any combination.Large Straight: If the dice show a sequence of 5 continuous numbers.

Small Straight: If the dice show a sequence of 4 continuous numbers.

Full House: If the dice show 3 of one number and 2 of another.

4 of a kind: If the dice include 4 or more of the same number.

Unlike in the upper section where only the dice of one number are summed, here the total of all five dice is used.

3 of a kind: If the dice include 3 or more of the same number.

Here, there are various combinations that a player can score for, which are very similar to Poker 'hands': The lower section of a scorecard is very important. If the player scores a total of 63 or more in the upper section, he gets a bonus of 35 points at the end of the game. For these six boxes, the player must enter only the sum of the dice with the corresponding face value. In the upper section, there are six boxes that represent the six face values of a die. There are two sections in a Yahtzee scorecard: the upper section and the lower section. Otherwise, the good box may be blocked for future turns and the player will not be able to take full advantage of it. There are many situations it which it is better to put a score of zero in a 'bad' box, instead of a low score in one of the 'good' boxes. So the player has to choose the box very wisely in every turn. But once a box is chosen on the score card, it can't be chosen again. The score that the player finally gets for that turn depends on the category/box that he chooses and the combination that he got by rolling the dice. After the three rolls in a turn, the player must put his scores down in the scorecard, under any one of the thirteen categories. The player can choose whether he wants to roll once, twice or three times in each turn. On the third roll, the player can roll any number of dice he wants to, including none or all of them, trying to get a good combination. On the first two rolls, the player has to roll all five of the dice at once.

In each turn, a player can roll his dice up to 3 times in order to get the desired combination.

There are 13 rounds in a game of Yahtzee. The players have to make wise choices about when to score in each combination. Even though Yahtzee, like any other dice game, has more to do with luck, strategy makes a significant difference. There are different combinations which fall under thirteen categories, very similar to the Poker 'hands', along with some extra categories. The object of the game is to roll certain combinations of numbers, in 13 rounds with the help of five dice.Įach player in his turn rolls the dice, trying to get a good combination of numbers. It can be played by up to 10 players at a time.

Yahtzee card game rules