🎲 Yahtzee

How to play

Yahtzee is played solo over thirteen rounds, one for each category on the scorecard. Each round you roll five dice, keep the ones you like and reroll the rest, up to three rolls. You then commit the dice to a category, which closes for the rest of the game. Every category must be filled, so the skill is choosing which round to spend a good roll on and which category to sacrifice a bad one to.

• Roll Dice button — rolls every die you are not holding. It is disabled once all three rolls are used.
• Spacebar — the same as Roll Dice, ignored when the button is disabled.
• Click a die — holds or releases it. Held dice are highlighted and survive the next roll. Dice can only be held after the first roll.
• The +N button beside a category — scores the current dice there. The number is what the category pays right now, including zero. Scoring closes it and starts a fresh round.

Scoring

The six number categories pay the sum of the matching dice only, so three fours in Fours is 12. Three of a Kind and Four of a Kind pay the total of all five dice when the requirement is met and nothing otherwise. Full House is a flat 25, Small Straight 30, Large Straight 40 and five of a kind in the Yahtzee row 50. Chance always pays the sum of all five. This build has no upper-section bonus.

Tips

• The buttons show every category's live value as the dice change, so scan the column before committing.
• Chance and Ones are the cheapest places to dump a bad round; zeroing Large Straight costs forty.
• Three and Four of a Kind pay the total of all five dice, so they are worth far more with sixes than with twos.
• Small Straight needs only four consecutive values and pays 30, often the safer keep than gambling on the full run.

Frequently asked questions