Yacht Dice Game

Roll five dice up to three times a turn, keep the ones you like and score them in one of 13 categories. Play solo to beat your best score or take turns with a friend on the same screen.

How to use the Yacht Dice Game

1. Pick a mode. Choose Solo to chase a high score or 2 players and enter both names.
2. Roll the dice. Press Roll dice. You get up to three rolls each turn.
3. Hold the keepers. Click a die (or press 1-5) to hold it so it stays put on the next roll.
4. Score a category. Click a highlighted cell on the score sheet. The grey number shows what you would get. Each category can be used once.
5. Finish 13 rounds. When every box is filled the game totals the scores, adds bonuses and saves solo high scores.

Yacht scoring categories

Every category can be used once per game, so a full game is exactly 13 turns. If your dice do not fit the category you choose, it scores 0.

Odds and strategy tips

With three rolls and smart holding, a Yacht is much more likely than the 1 in 1,296 chance of rolling five of a kind in a single throw. If you always keep your most common number, the chance of finishing a turn with a Yacht is about 4.6%, roughly once every 22 turns.

• Chase the upper bonus. 35 points is worth more than a Full house. Three Fives or Sixes give you room to fall short on Ones or Twos.
• Keep Chance as a safety net. Use it late in the game for a bad roll with a high total instead of wasting a valuable box.
• Go for straights early. Holding 3-4-5 gives many ways to finish a Small straight; open-ended runs are better than runs with a gap.
• Dump zeros wisely. If you must take a 0, put it in Ones or Yacht late in the game, where you lose the fewest expected points.
• Use the grey preview. The orange number on the score sheet marks the highest score available right now, but the best choice also depends on which boxes are still open.

Joker rules for extra Yachts

When you roll a Yacht and your Yacht box is already filled, the roll becomes a joker. You score 100 bonus points if the Yacht box holds 50. You must place the roll in the matching upper box (for example Fours for 4-4-4-4-4) if it is open. If that box is taken, you may use any open lower box, and Full house, Small straight and Large straight score their full 25, 30 and 40. If all lower boxes are filled too, you enter 0 in any open upper box.

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