Triple Yahtzee Dice Game Rules

Triple Yahtzee is played with five dice and a score card that gives each player three columns side by side: a single, a double and a triple column. If you do not have a printed pad, just draw the thirteen usual Yahtzee rows with three columns next to them. The game works for one to six players.

A turn works exactly like in regular Yahtzee: roll five dice, keep what you like and reroll the rest, up to two more times. Then enter the result in an open box. You choose both the row and the column, and every box can only be used once.

With thirteen rows and three columns each player has 39 boxes to fill, so a full game takes about three times as long as ordinary Yahtzee.

You always write the actual dice score in the box, no matter which column it sits in. The multipliers only come into play at the end: the first column counts at face value, the second column is doubled and the third is tripled.

The rows are the standard Yahtzee categories: ones to sixes in the upper section, then three of a kind, four of a kind, full house, small straight, large straight, chance and yahtzee. Each column has its own upper section and earns a 35 point bonus when its ones to sixes add up to at least 63. The bonus is part of the column total, so it gets multiplied along with everything else.

When all 39 boxes are filled, each player totals their columns, doubles the second, triples the third and adds everything together. The highest grand total wins. Final scores usually end up several times higher than in a normal game of Yahtzee.