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According to Hasbro, Yahtzee was invented in 1954 by a Canadian couple, who called it "The Yacht Game" because they played it on their yacht with their friends.

Later they asked toy and game entrepreneur Edwin S. Lowe if he would make up some sets to be given as gifts to their friends who enjoyed the game.

Lowe perceived the possibility of marketing the game, and acquired the rights to the game from the couple in exchange for 1,000 gift sets.

The object of the yahtzee game is to score the most points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations.

The dice can be rolled up to three times in a turn to try to make one of the thirteen possible scoring combinations.

Basic rules for yahtzee

On each turn, a player gets up to three rolls of the dice. He or she can save any dice that are wanted to complete a combination and then re-roll the other dice.

After the third roll, the player must find a place to put the score (though he or she can choose to end the turn and score after one or two rolls if desired).

If the resulting combination of dice will not fit in any unused scoring category, the player must place a "zero" in one of the unused boxes. Each player's total score is calculated by summing all thirteen score boxes.

A Yahtzee occurs when all five dice have the same value during a player's turn.

The maximum score of 375 is achieved by scoring five aces (5 points), five deuces (10 points), five threes (15 points), five fours (20 points), five fives (25 points), five sixes (30 points), the Bonus for Upper Box row score equaling or exceeding 63 points (35 points), five sixes played as Three-of-a-kind as (30 points), five sixes played as a Four-of-a-kind (30 points), a Full House (25 points), a Small Straight (30 points), a Large Straight (40 points), a Yahtzee (50 points), and five sixes played as Chance (30 points).

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