In 1973, the Milton Bradley Company purchased the E.S. 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). The scoring combinations have varying point values, some of which are fixed values and others of which have the cumulative value of the dice. Once a combination has been used in the game, it cannot be used again. A game consists of thirteen rounds during which the player chooses which scoring combination is to be used in that round.
The dice can be rolled up to three times in a turn to try to make one of the thirteen possible scoring combinations. The object of the game is to score the most points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. Yahtzee is also similar to the English game of Poker Dice and the Cheerio dice game. A public domain version of Yahtzee, which is popular especially in Scandinavia, is Yatzy.
The game is a development of earlier dice games such as Yacht, Generala, and Yogi. It was marketed under the name of Yahtzee by game entrepreneur Edwin S. Yatzie was included in a game set called 'LUCK - 15 Grand Dice Games'. Yahtzee is a dice game made by Milton Bradley (now owned by Hasbro), which was first marketed as 'Yatzie' by National Association Service of Toledo, Ohio in the early 1940s. For the game developer and journalist, see Ben Croshaw.
