Yahtzee is a dice game in which players roll five dice, with up to two re-rolls per turn, and try to fill in a scorecard of thirteen combinations, such as three of a kind, a full house or a straight, over the course of thirteen rounds. It was published by the Milton Bradley Company beginning in 1956, under a design closely related to earlier regional dice games such as Yacht, and it has since become one of the best-known commercial dice games, published in many licensed and electronic editions.
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Originating Region Game TypeDice game, category scoring 1 Governing BodyNo governing body; local clubs such as the Rotary Club of Old Town Eureka organize the largest known Yahtzee tournament independently, not a governing federation. 1 Classification
Player Count Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Player CountLarge Group or Variable 1 Sport
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1. Wikipedia, Yahtzee
WikipediaLead section, first sentence
Yahtzee is a dice game made by Milton Bradley (a company that has since been acquired and assimilated by Hasbro).
Lead section, second sentence
It was first marketed under the name of Yahtzee by game entrepreneur Edwin S. Lowe in 1956.
Lead section, sixth paragraph
What may be the world’s largest Yahtzee tournament occurs each January in Eureka, California.
Infobox, players field
2-10
Derived From: Yacht, Lead
The game is a development of earlier dice games such as Poker Dice, Yacht and Generala.
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