They eventually approached a game publisher, E.S. A Canadian couple invented the game and its rules so that they had a game to play on their yacht.
Who made Yahtzee? and When was Yahtzee invented? The winner is the player who has the highest number of points at the end of the game. Players take turns to roll five dice and may have up to two re-rolls to roll any number of the dice that they are not happy with, but after three rolls in total, the player must place his score on the scorecard based on the combination of dice, and score points accordingly. Each player has to roll dice to try to score as many points as they can by rolling specific combinations of dice. Yatzy is a dice game played with one or more players.