Yahtzee

At the beginning of a turn, click "Roll" to roll all 5 dice.
Then select the dice to reroll and click "Roll". You may reroll twice.
At the end of a turn, click the category you wish to use. There is no undo.
Reload this page to start a new game.

Description

Yahtzee (a trademark of Hasbro) is a game played with 5 six-sided dice. The game last 13 turns. On each turn, the dice are rolled (and optionally rerolled; see below) and the player has to choose one of 13 categories in which to score the resulting roll. Each category can only be used once per game. The categories and the rules for scoring in each are given below.

Category	Scoring rules
Ones (or "Aces")	Total on the dice that match the category. Additionally, there is a 35 point bonus for getting a total of at least 63 in the six upper categories.
Twos ("Deuces")
Threes ("Treys")
Fours
Fives
Sixes
Three of a kind	If three (or four) of the dice show the same number of dots ("pips"), the score is the total on all the dice. The score is zero if the roll does not have three (or four) dice showing the same number of pips.
Four of a kind
Full House	25 if three dice show the same number of pips and the two other dice also show the same number of pips (but a different number than the other three).
Small Straight	30 points (40 for large) if four (five for large) dice show consecutive numbers, 0 otherwise.
Large Straight
Chance	Score is the total pips showing on all the dice.
Yahtzee	50 if all five dice show the same number of pips, 0 otherwise.

Note to Yahtzee veterans: we are not playing with Yahtzee Bonuses or Yahtzee Jokers.

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