Is there an optimum strategy to Yahtzee?

[septimus]

@Saint_Cad

So does Yahtzee have a theoretical optimum strategy for each roll and each score?

Yes! How close do Yahtzee bots come to optimal play? I don’t know.

In a previous thread on Yahtzee, I mentioned a variant which is “a popular pastime of Danish businessmen overseas.”

@septimus

Anyone here heard of Balut? It’s very similar to Yahtzee; one difference is the absence of rows to score 1’s, 2’s and 3’s (though I think those rows add strategy). My businessman acquaintance tells of chartering a helicopter to ferry him and his friends from Hongkong to Manila just for a Balut game! :smack: