{"id":150,"date":"2017-10-07T20:10:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netexl.com\/howtoplay\/?p=150"},"modified":"2025-07-09T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T14:35:09","slug":"yatzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/howtoplay\/yatzy\/","title":{"rendered":"Yatzy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yatzy is a sequence dice-casting game similar to Yacht<\/a> and Yahtzee<\/a>. The game is played mostly in\u00a0Scandinavian countries where it is as popular as Yahtzee<\/a> in America. Yatzy is very similar to American\u00a0Yahtzee<\/a> with a couple of additional categories and slightly different scoring mechanism.<\/p>\n

The objective of the game is to score points by rolling 5 six-sided dice and making certain combinations.<\/p>\n

Setup:<\/strong><\/p>\n

5 six-sided dice and a scoresheet.<\/p>\n

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Yatzy Dice Game Play:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The game has 15 categories to score which are divided between two sections; UPPER SECTION and LOWER SECTION. Each category can be scored only once. Categories can be scored in any sequence.<\/p>\n

There are 15 rounds in the game. Players can score in one category in each round.\u00a0Players take turn to roll 5 dice in each round. After each roll the player can set aside one or more dice and then roll remaining dice. A maximum of 3 rolls are allowed to all players in each round. All five dice are available to be thrown anytime in a roll including the ones which were set aside in previous rolls.<\/p>\n

UPPER SECTION has a bonus of 50 if players score 63 or more in it.<\/p>\n

Following are the categories available in Yatzy dice game, its scoring rules and description<\/p>\n

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Some combinations can be scored in more than one category. For ex, a Full house can be scored in Full house, or Three of a kind, or Chance, or One pair, or Two pairs.<\/p>\n

If players can not score in a category, they can still mark it for a score of zero.<\/p>\n

Once all categories are played, the player with the highest score wins.<\/p>\n

References:<\/h4>\n

Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yatzy is a sequence dice-casting game similar to Yacht and Yahtzee. The game is played mostly in\u00a0Scandinavian countries where it is as popular as Yahtzee in America. Yatzy is very similar to American\u00a0Yahtzee with a couple of additional categories and slightly different scoring mechanism. The objective of the game is to score points by rolling…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dice-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/howtoplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/howtoplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/howtoplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/howtoplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/howtoplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/howtoplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/howtoplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/howtoplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/howtoplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/howtoplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/howtoplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}