Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Of Yahtzee


Yahtzee is a dice game played with 5 dice. Players have the option of re-rolling any number of dice up to 3 times in hope of making 1 of the 13 categories. Examples of categories are 3 of a kind, 4 of a kind, straight, full house, etc, and the category with the most number of marks is the Yahtzee, which is 5 dice of the same kind. An example is as follows:



Yahtzee! Woah 5 Sixes!








The player then try to fill in a score for each category, but this is not always possible. When all categories are filled with a score or a zero, the game ends and total scores are computed. Read more here!

Play Yahtzee now!

My best score is 1695. Try beating that! Heh.

PS: Jump inside this post to view the details of my best score.




9 comments:

Anonymous said...

So what's the probability?

Hmm... go calculate leh! =)

C'mon we are waiting!!! =p btw, i beat ur high score. =) I got 1894.

So there...

JH said...

Lol, ninja, you are suppposed to be the probablility expert wor. I've got the answer already lar, you go calculate leh!

Anonymous said...

pls.... I where got expert lar. We take same module together so my knowledge cant exceed urs right?! =)

Go on. what's the probability?

Anonymous said...

1/432

Anonymous said...

how do u get 1/432?

JH said...

My probability is 1.224%, see above for my solution. Dunno if correct anot, need some expert (read:ZG) to verify.

Anonymous said...

before I start calculating, just to check: what is yatzee? i still dont quite get it. just tell me how to get a yatzee first and i can see if u are right. btw, we take the same module, so our knowledge is definitely the same on probabilities. As such, im not an expert. =)

JH said...

Yahtzee is 5 dice of the same kind lor, as mentioned above. For example 5 6's or 5 5's, etc.

Anonymous said...

REmember the 6 possible numbers that each dice can get. as such, MULTIPLY BY 6. =) Remember what i said.