Ad
related to: www.yahtzee.com
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Yahtzee is a dice game made by Milton Bradley (a company that has since been acquired and assimilated by Hasbro).It was first marketed under the name of Yahtzee by game entrepreneur Edwin S. Lowe in 1956.
A number of related games under the Yahtzee brand have been produced. They all commonly use dice as the primary tool for game play, but all differ generally. As Yahtzee itself has been sold since 1954, the variants released over the years are more recent in comparison, with the oldest one, Triple Yahtzee, developed in 1972, eighteen years after the introduction of the parent game.
Yatzy can be played solitaire or by any number of players. Players take turns rolling five dice. After each roll, the player chooses which dice to keep, and which to reroll.
Benjamin Richard "Yahtzee" Croshaw (born 24 May 1983) is a British journalist, video game critic, author, comedian, humourist, video game developer, and audiobook narrator.
Yahtzee is an American game show that premiered on January 11, [2] [3] 1988. Based on the dice game Yahtzee, the show was hosted by Peter Marshall, with Larry Hovis serving as both the show's announcer and a regular panelist.
Since Power Yahtzee was developed with the addition of a sixth die, it is also possible to play standard Yahtzee with a Power Yahtzee set by setting the Power die aside.
Generala is played with five dice. Generala is a dice game similar to the English game of poker dice, the German game Kniffel, and the Polish game Jacy-Tacy (yahtzee-tahtzee). [1]
Edwin S. Lowe (1910 – February 23, 1986) was a U.S. salesman, toymaker, game entrepreneur and real estate developer whose promotion of a game he renamed Bingo [1] made it popular as a national pastime and fundraising activity for churches and schools.