YAHTZEE: A Roll Of The Dice
People have been playing dice games for millennia, but perhaps the most popular modern variant is Yahtzee. Yahtzee, an easy-to-play dice game, is popular with people of all ages. The game requires minimal setup: just five dice, a dice cup, and scoring cards. More important, it offers a pleasing combination of luck—how you roll the dice—and skill, how you decide to score your rolls. How popular is Yahtzee? According to the game’s current owner, Hasbro, roughly 50 million Yahtzee games are sold annually.
How It All Began
The story behind Yahtzee’s origins is an intriguing blend of entrepreneurial pluck and tantalizing mystery. According to game industry lore, Yahtzee was invented in 1954 by a wealthy Canadian couple who enjoyed playing the game with friends aboard their yacht. To this day, their names are unknown. We do know, however, that the couple referred to this amusing pastime as the “Yacht” game. Friends wanted copies of their own, so the gracious hosts gladly made the equipment and score cards by hand. But it became such a
