How to Play

Play against the computer over 13 rounds. Each turn you roll five dice up to three times. After each roll, tap or click dice you want to keep, then roll the remaining dice. After your third roll, choose one unused scoring category.

1. Press Roll Dice.
2. Tap/click dice to keep them.
3. Roll again, up to three rolls in the turn.
4. Choose an unused category from your scorecard.
5. The AI then takes its turn.
6. After 13 rounds, the highest score wins.

Game Rules

Yahtzee uses five six-sided dice and a 13-category scorecard. The upper section scores Ones through Sixes. The lower section contains Three of a Kind, Four of a Kind, Full House, Small Straight, Large Straight, Yahtzee and Chance.

• Three of a Kind: three or more dice of the same number; score the total of all five dice.
• Four of a Kind: four or more dice of the same number; score the total of all five dice.
• Full House: three of one number and two of another — 25 points.
• Small Straight: four consecutive numbers — 30 points.
• Large Straight: five consecutive numbers — 40 points.
• Yahtzee: five dice showing the same number — 50 points.
• Chance: add the total of all five dice.

A Brief History of Yahtzee

The modern commercial game called Yahtzee was marketed by game entrepreneur Edwin S. Lowe in 1956. Historical accounts say the underlying game was developed as the “Yacht Game” by an anonymous Canadian couple in the 1950s, and Lowe acquired the rights, renamed it Yahtzee and brought it to market. The Strong National Museum of Play records the game as dating to 1956. citeturn0search0turn0search1

Yahtzee also belongs to a much older family of dice games, with predecessors including Yacht and other sequence dice games. citeturn0search12

Trademark note: “Yahtzee” is a trademark associated with its rights holders. This WindsorCastle.info page is an independent browser-game implementation and is not presented as an official Hasbro product.

Copyright

© 2026 Simon Ben Gemmill. All rights reserved for the original WindsorCastle.info webpage design, text and JavaScript implementation.

This copyright statement does not claim ownership of the Yahtzee name, trademark, historical game or its original commercial rules.

Sources

• The Strong National Museum of Play — historical information on Yahtzee and E. S. Lowe.
• Google Arts & Culture / The Strong National Museum of Play — 1956 Yahtzee collection record.