As aģ or 4 of a Kind, all dice are added to determine the score as The Upper Section, the score may be taken in the Lower Section.

If the number that makes up the Yahtzee is already scored in.

Scoring in the Upper Section, the score must be taken there (5 on

If the number that makes up the Yahtzee roll is available for.

The official Yahtzee rule book (post-1961) applies the following Yahtzee Forced Jokers and Free-Choice Jokers.

There are two modern ways to go about scoring an alternate Their Yahtzee bonus boxes are all filled? Invoking the Yahtzee Joker Rule Happens when a player rolls a Yahtzee after scratching it, or if By scratching the Yahtzee, the Bonus columns are automatically forfeit. Have scored a 0 in the original Yahtzee score box.

However, players are not allowed to score a Yahtzee Bonus if they Many as 3 Yahtzee Bonuses (worth up to 300 points). Marked by placing a check-mark in the first of three smaller boxes Rolling a second Yahtzee is worth 100 points, That first Yahtzee is worth 50 points, and is scored in theĬorresponding box. Player’s can take points for rolling more than one Yahtzee. NOTE: My new friend Brie says you don’t need a game to drink.The Yahtzee Bonus is a special section of the score pad in which I am happy to say that the rules presented below are very much unchanged from that day. All things that are rare in the world of drinking games.ĭuring that afternoon the rules fell together organically as Bradley Hatt and I played and drank our way through that case of Elephant Ale. It lasts about an hour and, most importantly, everyone drinks the same amount. It can be played with as few as two and as many as 30 (teams are recommended in groups over 12.) Everyone is engaged in the play of the game. YFB has a beginning middle and an end (as most stories do.) There is always a winner and a loser, but nobody cares. But that’s what we did and perhaps it was those circumstances that led to us creating, in my opinion, a perfect drinking game. We were in Lisa’s apartment on the corner of 22nd and Melrose where we never were, drinking Elephant Ale which we never drank. It was an odd circumstance if I’m being honest. I also don’t remember why Bradley Hatt and I decided to write these rules. The first game I played was in Crutch’s room as a pledge. I don’t know when they started playing Yahtzee in my fraternity.

Yahtzee drinking game rules