Kismet (dice game)

Kismet is a commercial dice game introduced in 1964 and marketed as The Modern Game of Yacht. Its name is the Turkish word for fate. E. William DeLaittre holds the trademark, Lakeside Games first published it, and Endless Games produces it today. Play resembles Yacht and Yahtzee with a few variations, the main one being that the sides of the five white dice carry pips in different colours: black, red and green. The box holds the dice, a dice cup, a pad of scorecards and a pencil. Players take turns rolling the dice up to three times, holding dice back after the first and second rolls, and then enter the result in an open field on a scorecard, writing a zero when the roll fits nowhere. The scorecard has a Basic Section, scored like Yahtzee's upper section with bonuses at three score levels, and a Kismet Section scored on combinations similar to poker hands, where the pip colours matter. In games with several players, a second five-of-a-kind forces every opponent to take a zero, which is where the game's name comes from.