What is the highest possible score in the game of Yahtzee?

Yahtzee is a dice game made by Milton Bradley (now owned by Hasbro), which was first marketed as Yatzie by the National Association Service of Toledo, Ohio, in the early 1940s.

The objective of the game is to score points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. The dice can be rolled up to three times in a turn to try to make various scoring combinations and dice must remain in the box. A game consists of thirteen rounds. After each round the player chooses which scoring category is to be used for that round. A Yahtzee is five-of-a-kind and scores 50 points, the highest of any category. The winner is the player who scores the most points.

The highest possible score is 1,575 and involves throwing 13 Yahtzees, scoring 12 Yahtzee bonuses of 100 points each, as well as 375 in the other categories.

The 375 is achieved by scoring five aces (5), five twos (10), five threes (15), five fours (20), five fives (25), five sixes (30), the Upper Section bonus (35), five sixes scored as Three-of-a-kind (30), five sixes scored as a four-of-a-kind (30), a full house (25), a small straight (30), a large straight (40), a Yahtzee (50), and five sixes scored as chance (30). The score of 1,575 requires using the "Joker" rules for the full house, small straight, and large straight categories.

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teacherchicky

1535! I calculated it myself.

Stephen Haugh

1575 and 1535 are all over the internet. The real answer is 1480. According to the rules, a play would get 1200 points for the bonuses however they would have to take a zero for small straight, large straight, and full house. (I checked to make sure that the rules would not allow 3 6's and 2 6's to be counted as a full house. They do not. It must be 2 different numbers.) So now you can stop wondering. 1480!

earlepg

Since I have never attempted to play a game of Yahtzee, I simply chose the highest number of 1575. Does four players repeating 1535 with the same words make them right? In reading the section on extreme scores, I am thinking that the highest score is next to impossible to achieve.

Silvia Levame

The maximum possible score attainable in any Yahtzee game is 1535 points. That requires a player to throw a Yahtzee (5 of a kind) on every throw with over half of them being all sixes.

Michael W. Strode

The maximum possible score attainable in any Yahtzee game is 1535 points. That requires a player to throw a Yahtzee (5 of a kind) on every throw with over half of them being all sixes

Liz Hamilton

The maximum possible score attainable in any Yahtzee game is 1535 points. That requires a player to throw a Yahtzee (5 of a kind) on every throw with over half of them being all sixes. Straight from Hasbro!!