Board games

Garden Yacht.

Roll five dice up to three times a turn and fill all thirteen boxes of your score sheet.

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How to play

Goal. Fill all thirteen boxes of your score sheet with the best totals you can, alone, on today's dice or against the computer.

A turn

  • Roll five dice up to three times. Between rolls, keep any dice you like; the others are rolled again.
  • Then record the dice in one unused box, even if it scores zero.
Roll 1
Roll 2Full house: 25
Keeping for a full house. Three 4s come up: keep them and roll the other two. A pair of 2s completes a Full house for 25.

Boxes

  • Ones to Sixes count only that face. 63 or more in that section earns a 35-point bonus.
  • Three and Four of a kind and Chance score all five dice. Full house 25, Small straight (four in a row) 30, Large straight 40, Five of a kind 50.
  • A further five of a kind earns 100 bonus points when Five of a kind scored 50, and can act as a joker in a free lower box.

Modes

  • Daily dice give everyone the same rolls on a UTC day when they keep the same dice.
  • Against the computer, the higher total after thirteen turns each wins.

Controls

  • Touch or keyboard.