The maximum possible score depends on the scoring rules used, but with the above rules and both straights counting 30, the maximum score is 297. The scores for the Straights vary, but a typical score is 30 for each. If a category is chosen but the dice do not match the requirements of the category the player scores 0 in that category.Ī Yacht cannot be scored on Full House, but can be scored on Four of a Kind, although the fifth die is not counted in the score. The following are the 12 categories and the points scored in those categories: The winner is the player who scores the most points. A Yacht is five-of-a-kind and scores 50 points the highest of any category. The scoring categories have varying point values, some of which are fixed values and others where the score depends on the value of the dice. Once a category has been used in the game, it cannot be used again. After each round the player chooses which scoring category is to be used for that round. The dice can be rolled up to three times in a turn to try to make these combinations.

The object of the game is to score points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. These rules relate to the 1938 version of Yacht. The name Yacht is also used for a number of later dice games that include many features of Yahtzee, being closer to Yahtzee than the original Yacht game. Yahtzee is a later development, similar to Yacht in both name and content. Yacht dates back to at least 1938, and is a contemporary of the similar three-dice game Crag. Yacht is a public domain dice game, similar to the Latin American game Generala, the English game of Poker Dice, the Scandinavian Yatzy, and Cheerio. Please help out by adding categories to it so that it can be listed with similar articles. This article needs additional or more specific categories.

Yahtzee Perquackey game rules