Five dice, three rolls and a score sheet: that simple recipe has produced a whole family of games. Yahtzee is the famous American version, Yatzy the Scandinavian standard, and both descend from Yacht, the game that started it all.
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Fill seven categories of four boxes each over 28 rounds, then turn your dice total into the points that decide the winner.
A pocket-sized cousin of Yatzy with three dice, one reroll and thirteen quick categories, where a crag scores 50.
Five dice and eleven categories, with premiums when straights, full houses and poker land on the first roll.
Seven rounds with five dice where you call the row you are going for, and rolling a hooligan scores 20 points.
Roll six dice up to three times, fill the extended score sheet and save unused rolls for later turns.
Fill three columns on one score card, where the second column counts double and the third counts triple.
The 1938 game Yahtzee grew out of, with twelve rows, five dice, three rolls and no upper section bonus.
Roll five dice up to three times and fill all 13 boxes on the score card, with the upper bonus and the joker rule.
The Balkan take on Yatzy, played on a grid of four columns filled downwards, upwards, freely and on announcement.
Roll five dice three times, fill the fifteen rows on the sheet and chase the 50 point bonus in the upper section.
Every region grew its own variant: Generala in South America rewards hands rolled in one throw, Yamb in the Balkans adds a grid of columns, and Balut in Southeast Asia stretches the idea to 28 rounds. Maxi Yatzy adds a sixth die, and Crag compresses everything into three.
The balance between luck and choice is just right. The dice decide what you have to work with, but you decide what to keep and where the points go. Learn one game and you can play them all within minutes.