Yatzy
Five dice, three rolls, fifteen boxes. Fill the card, chase the bonus.
1-8 players15-45 min
Overview
The Scandinavian dice classic. On your turn you roll five dice up to three times, keeping the ones you like between rolls, then write the result into one of fifteen boxes on your scorecard. Every box can be used once, so a mediocre roll still has to go somewhere, sometimes as a zero. Score 63 or more in the upper section for a 50-point bonus. When every card is full, the highest total wins.
How it plays
- On your turn roll all five dice, then re-roll any of them up to two more times. Tap a die to hold it between rolls.
- After your last roll, write the result into one open box. If nothing fits, you must scratch a box for zero.
- Upper section (ones to sixes): the sum of the matching dice. Reach 63 in total for a 50-point bonus.
- One pair, two pairs, three and four of a kind score only the matching dice. Two pairs must be two different values.
- Small straight (1-2-3-4-5) scores 15, large straight (2-3-4-5-6) scores 20, full house scores the sum of all dice.
- Chance is the sum of any five dice. Yatzy, five of a kind, scores 50.
- After fifteen rounds every card is full. The highest total wins; a tie is a shared win.
- Play online with a phone each (the dice are rolled on the server, and a tablet can show the shared score pad), or pass one device around.