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Object of the game

The object of the PowerPoint-only Yahtzee game is to score one of each category of throw shown
on the two-player scorecards on each side of the screen.

The first player to score all categories is the winner. If playing solo, then only one scorecard will
be needed.

All five dice of the same number

Game Start and Play Yahtzee e.g. 4 4 4 4 4
To start with, click on all five yellow dice to roll the playing dice. After rolling you can either score
the current roll or re-roll any or all of the dice. Large Any five consecutive numbers
straight e.g. 6 4 2 5 3
To re-roll a dice, click on the ‘CLEAR’ button above it, then click on the corresponding yellow dice
again.
Small Any four consecutive numbers
You may only roll the dice a total of 3 times. straight e.g. 5 4 2 5 3

After rolling 3 times you must choose a category to score against. A check mark will appear
when you click on the box adjacent to the category. (If you click in error, click on the check mark Any three of a kind and two of a
and it will disappear).
Full house kind e.g. 1 3 1 3 3

You may score the dice at any point in the round, i.e. it doesn't have to be after the 3rd roll.
Any four dice of the same number
If your final roll does not match any category, or you only score a category that you already have
4 of a kind e.g. 5 5 5 2 5
a check mark against, then that will be the end of the throw and no score will be achieved.

At the end of each round of throws, click in the yellow ‘CLEAR ALL’ button to remove all the Any three dice of the same
3 of a kind number e.g. 6 2 4 2 2
playing dice. On completion of a full game, click the ‘CLEAR ALL’ buttons above any scorecards
used. You will then be ready to play your next game
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Yahtzee Rules In the lower scores, you score either a set amount, or zero if you don't satisfy the category requirements.
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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
Object of the game the dice. For 4 of a kind you would need 4 die faces the same.

The object of Yahtzee is to obtain the highest score from throwing 5 dice. Small and Large Straight A Straight is a sequence of consecutive die faces, where a small straight is 4
The game consists of 13 rounds. In each round, you roll the dice and then score the roll in one of 13 consecutive faces, and a large straight 5 consecutive faces.
categories. You must score once in each category. The score is determined by a different rule for
each category. Small straights score 30 and a large 40 points. So if you rolled:
The game ends once all 13 categories have been scored. 2 - 3 - 2 - 5 – 4 you could score 30 in small straight or 0 in large straight.

Game Start 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.
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. First Yahtzee A Yahtzee is 5 of a kind and scores 50 points, although you may elect NOT to score it as a
You may only roll the dice a total of 3 times. After rolling 3 times you must choose a category to yahtzee, instead choosing to take it as a top row score and safegaurd you bonus.
score.
You may score the dice at any point in the round, i.e. it doesn't have to be after the 3rd roll. 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
Scoring into another category, as follows;

To score your combination of 5 dice, you click one of the 13 boxes, or write it on the scorecard -If the corresponding Upper section category is not filled then you must score there. i.e. if you rolled:
(scoresheet). There are two sections to the score table - the Upper Section and the Lower Section. 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 and the Fours Category is not filled, you must put the score in the Fours category.

Once a box has been scored, it cannot be scored again for the rest of the game (except the Yahtzee -If the corresponding Upper section category is filled you may then put the score anywhere on the Upper
category), so choose wisely. 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
Upper Section Scoring categories, you would score 30, 40 and 25 points respectively.

If you score in the upper section of the table, your score is the total of the specified die face. So if Chance You can roll anything and be able to put it in the Chance category. You score the
you roll: total of the die faces.
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. Scratch or Dump scores.
If the One, Three or Four Categories were selected for scoring with this roll, you would score a zero.
If placed in the Two or Six category, you would score 2 and 6 respectively. You can score any roll in any category at any time, even if the resulting score is zero. Eg, 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
Bonus If the total of Upper scores is 63 or more, add a bonus of 35. Note that 63 is the total of three against a difficult-to-get category that you've failed to fill (eg, long straight or yahtzee).
each of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 6s.
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