John-Mahoney-BAGDY1: Creating a Timeline of Social board Games: Yahtzee

Yahtzee is a popular game from 1956. A game that uses 5 dice, a cup and a complicated scoring system. It can be played alone but like many games is better with friends. I never really understood how scoring worked in Yahtzee so I would play a metagame where rolling higher numbers than your friends mean you won, or rolling a Yahtzee (all 5 dice are the same) would create an uproar of excitement due to how rare it was. It was also exciting to get multiples of the same number. This was similar in style to a minigame in New Super Mario Bros. on the DS. There was a card game which put the player against Luigi. Whoever had the better hand won. Often it was down to had the most cards of the same type. A full house would be like a Yahtzee where all of the cards in the hand would be the same.