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Word Yahtzee

#1837BGG ↗

1978 · 2-4 players · 30min · weight 1.63 · 350 ratings

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ID
1837
Name
Word Yahtzee
Year
1978
Rank
30091
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
30
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
30
Avg weight
1.6296
Num weights
27
Bayes avg
5.43863
Average
5.09634
Users rated
350
Num owned
1286
Wanting
5
Wishing
26
Num comments
147
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:49:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Dice RollingPattern RecognitionSpelling
Categories (2)
DiceWord Game
Description (993 chars)

Word Yahtzee is another addition to the Yahtzee family, which is one of the most recognised dice games in history. However instead of numbers, letters and words take center stage. Players still have a maximum of 3 rolls in a given turn but now players have 7 dice at their disposal. The dice in Word Yahtzee contain a set of letters similar to that on offer in Scrabble and each letter is also tagged with a value, which is used in creating a score when a player meets one of the criteria. The targets to aim for include words of certain lengths (top half of the score pad), whilst the bottom half includes categories such as 2 words, 3 words, all vowels and all consonants to name a few. To achieve a Yahtzee a player must be able to form a 7-Letter word. At the end of each game the highest score is declared the winner but like classic Yahtzee, players an play all 6 games featured on a single page and combine those scores to play a more epic game. Word Yahtzee is a word dice game.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.