There's also an online java version at which you can either play in the browser as an applet or you can download it as a zip file and run with your java runtime. Oddly this game doesn't seem to be available in the normal linux repositories. You can download this for windows or linux and follow the instructions for installation. Openyahtzee is an open source, cross-platform executable letting you play against the computer or in multiplayer mode. But of course there are already lots of free versions already out there, so rather than develop yet another one, we'll simply link to a few here. It was originally planned to make an online version of yahtzee for the activityworkshop, to play against the computer in the same way that the Boxes and Battleships games work. It can be played solo trying to get the best score, but makes more fun as a multiplayer game.įor more information on the rules and scoring sheets, see the Wikipedia article on the game. The simple rules hide quite a complicated set of judgements about which dice to keep and where to enter the scores. Yahtzee is a simple and popular dice game played with 5 regular dice and a scoring sheet.
