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Yatzy-GB
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About the game
Yatzy is the old dice game for one or more players, here as a solo game on the Game Boy. Each turn you roll five dice, then roll again up to two more times, keeping the dice you like between rolls. When you are done rolling, you choose one of the fifteen scoring categories for that hand; each category can be used only once, so the game ends after fifteen turns.
The categories are the singles (ones through sixes), one pair, two pairs, three and four of a kind, the small and large straights, the full house, chance and the five of a kind, which gives the game its name. Scoring at least 63 points in the singles earns a 50-point bonus. The game keeps your high score.
Playing it here
This is a homebrew game made for the Game Boy: a new game by an independent developer, not a commercial release. It runs here in binjgb, a Game Boy emulator compiled to WebAssembly. Click Play now and press Enter on the menu to start.
The high score is kept in this browser, the same way the cartridge's battery memory would keep it. F2 also saves the current state of the emulator and F4 brings it back. A gamepad works too.
Controls
| Key | Game Boy button | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Arrow keys | Control Pad | move the cursor (the > sign) |
| X | A | press a button, hold or release a die, score a category |
| Enter | Start | start a game from the menu |
| Z | B | back to the menu from the game over screen |
| F2 / F4 | — | save / load the emulator state |
A few things worth knowing
Holding dice. Move the cursor to the hold button and press X: a ^ marker
appears under the dice. Press X on a die to hold it, and a star shows under the
dice you are keeping.
Each category once. A star next to a category means it is already used. After the last roll of a turn you must score somewhere, even if it is a zero.
Go for the bonus. Three of each number in the singles adds up to exactly 63, the amount needed for the 50-point bonus.
Credits and licence
Yatzy-GB was made by Daniel G (danielg0). The random number generator and the decimal conversion routines are by Damian Yerrick, under the zlib licence, and the hardware definitions come from the GBDev community. The game is released under the MIT licence. The licence texts are linked from this page.