Yahtzee Deluxe Edition
by Hasbro

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Product Summary

• One or more players.
• Ages 8 and up

Toys and Games Reviews of Yahtzee Deluxe Edition

Customer Review: Anything for that UPPER SECTION BONUS!
Summary: 5 Stars

For the few uninitiated (yes, you there, living in that monastery in Tibet), the object of Yahtzee is deceptively (no, no, make that deviously) simple. When it's your turn, you roll 5 dice in a shaker cup, then take up to 2 more rolls to create combinations similar to poker hands by re-rolling any and all of the dice. You then record your score in one of 13 spaces on the pre-printed score sheet. At the end of each turn, you must either score the value of your final roll in its appropriate space or take a zero in any open space on the score sheet. Ostensibly, the goal of every turn is the highest-scoring 5-of-a-kind combination known as a "Yahtzee", unless, of course, you're sitting next to my sister-in-law, in which case it becomes a "YAHTZEEEEEEEEE! ", after which you wait several minutes for your hearing to return. Whoever has the highest score wins.

The Deluxe Edition dice are made of amber colored plastic with gold colored glitter embedded in it. You shake those dice in a leather-wrapped, felt-lined shaking cup. After agitating the dice, you throw them into a tray that keeps them from overshooting the table and is a much more elegant corral than using the game's box for that purpose. One rim of the tray has 5 depressions into which you can place your "keepers", those dice you don't intend to re-roll. The game also comes with 2 Deluxe Edition scoring pencils and 2 Deluxe Edition score pads as well as 8 oversized bonus chips. The latter are a sort of medallion one places in front of oneself upon scoring a second Yahtzee provided the first was scored in the Yahtzee space on the score pad. And therein lies the most sublimely devious feature of the game.

The upper section of the score sheet carries with it a bonus, should you succeed in rolling at least 3 Aces, 3 Deuces, 3 Treys and so on, all the way to 3 Sixes. But as the game progresses and the prospect of success moves farther and farther from one's grasp, one resorts to the unthinkable: scoring that prized first Yahtzee in the upper section, just to GET THAT BONUS!

By the rules of Yahtzee, you are no longer eligible for the Yahtzee bonus chip (with its 100 point bonus) nor the "Joker" rule (allowing you to score a second or subsequent Yahtzee in any lower section space). I have seen friends and relations driven to the brink of madness, scoring as many as 3 Yahtzees in the upper section while deliberately goose-egging the Yahtzee space, all in the name of that bonus.

So, if you feel you are up to it, pour some wine, lay out a tray of fruit and cheese and set up your Yahtzee Deluxe Edition. If one is going to be driven out of one's mind, one might as well look good doing it.

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