YAHTZEE by Handmark
reviewed by Adrian
adrian@ppczone.net
Introduction:
YAHTZEE is a 5-die dice game that has been popular for years and is very similar in appearance and basic premise to Poker Dice. The main difference between YAHTZEE and Poker Dice is that the latter is based solely on luck and the ability to identify matching pictures. YAHTZEE takes that concept and tweaks it by making the players use judgment to identify how to best save a series of scores.
The player with the best series score wins.
Poker Dice is about winning battles, YAHTZEE is about combining those battles (even the ones that were lost) to win the war.
Handmark recently released YAHTZEE for Pocket PC handheld devices. Hasbro, Inc.’s YAHTZEE is the first official family dice game for the Pocket PC platform. Handmark describes there product line as bringing tools and toys for the mobile generation. They are a three year old company that has grown from a start-up to a position where at least one in every five dollars spent on PDA Software is on a Handmark product. Handmark products are sold in more than 8,400 retail outlets, online, as well as in device bundles from leading manufacturers….
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