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Handheld electronic Yahtzee is a great addition to any road trip, camp-out, or, let's be honest, visit to the powder room. It's small size and simple components make it a welcome weapon against boredom of all ages.
With the availability of modern smart phones and other portable devices, these precursory PDAs will eventually be forgotten. So, while we still have them around, I've thought of five new ways to spice things up from the bedroom to the bathroom.
Background:
From Wikipedia (Nov. 2011): "The object of the game is to score the most points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. The dice can be rolled up to three times in a turn to try to make one of the thirteen possible scoring combinations. A game consists of thirteen rounds during which the player chooses which scoring combination is to be used in that round. Once a combination has been used in the game, it cannot be used again.
The scoring combinations have varying point values, some of which are fixed values and others of which have the cumulative value of the dice. A Yahtzee is five-of-a-kind and holds the game's highest point value of 50 (not counting multiple "Yahtzees" in the same game)."
And some fun facts:
* In The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXI, Yahtzee is parodied as Yahtzu.
* In Family Guy, Yahtzee is played by the Griffin family during the episode From Method to Madness.
* In the South Park episode, You Have 0 Friends, Yahtzee is played by Stan Marsh during the deathmatch needed to delete his Facebook account (itself a spoof of Tron).
* Yahtzee is a term that is shouted with glee upon the arrival of a joyous occasion.
* Yahtzee has been cited as a precipitating factor in a case of domestic violence and as the motive for at least one murder.
* Yahtzee was featured in the episode "Remedial Chaos Theory" in NBC's "Community".
Please enjoy, rate, and VOTE!
Yours Truly,
RedPlanetCorridor
With the availability of modern smart phones and other portable devices, these precursory PDAs will eventually be forgotten. So, while we still have them around, I've thought of five new ways to spice things up from the bedroom to the bathroom.
Background:
From Wikipedia (Nov. 2011): "The object of the game is to score the most points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. The dice can be rolled up to three times in a turn to try to make one of the thirteen possible scoring combinations. A game consists of thirteen rounds during which the player chooses which scoring combination is to be used in that round. Once a combination has been used in the game, it cannot be used again.
The scoring combinations have varying point values, some of which are fixed values and others of which have the cumulative value of the dice. A Yahtzee is five-of-a-kind and holds the game's highest point value of 50 (not counting multiple "Yahtzees" in the same game)."
And some fun facts:
* In The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXI, Yahtzee is parodied as Yahtzu.
* In Family Guy, Yahtzee is played by the Griffin family during the episode From Method to Madness.
* In the South Park episode, You Have 0 Friends, Yahtzee is played by Stan Marsh during the deathmatch needed to delete his Facebook account (itself a spoof of Tron).
* Yahtzee is a term that is shouted with glee upon the arrival of a joyous occasion.
* Yahtzee has been cited as a precipitating factor in a case of domestic violence and as the motive for at least one murder.
* Yahtzee was featured in the episode "Remedial Chaos Theory" in NBC's "Community".
Please enjoy, rate, and VOTE!
Yours Truly,
RedPlanetCorridor
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From two players and up, you can involve the whole family or dorm-room by each playing one move at a time. The goal here is to beat your high score as a group.
Each player takes a turn rolling up to three times and chooses which dice to hold, then selects which position to take. Pass along to your neighbor until the game is finished.
For more fun, play this around a bowl of candy where you get to keep how ever many pieces of candy for the number of points your turn yielded. Each "YAHTZEE!" earns 50 M&M's!
Each player takes a turn rolling up to three times and chooses which dice to hold, then selects which position to take. Pass along to your neighbor until the game is finished.
For more fun, play this around a bowl of candy where you get to keep how ever many pieces of candy for the number of points your turn yielded. Each "YAHTZEE!" earns 50 M&M's!
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