Roll-and-risk games ( Farkel, Martian Dice) are not what I'm looking for, although some of the games here may well have risk elements to them. Some have unique dice! Some play with the category concept more than others there is definitely some judgment-calling on my part going on here. This GeekList is for showcasing proprietary games that fit the category dice game genre, but DON'T have 'Yahtzee' in the title. It's easy enough to find games in the Yahtzee family here on BGG, but they're not the only runners in this horse race. Not a lot of proprietary games manage to surpass their public-domain-origin equivalents - for example, it's debatable whether even UNO is better known than Crazy Eights - but Yahtzee has clearly all but supplanted the likes of Yacht, General, Crag, and Double Cameroon (likely known only among certain regions, game historians, and shareware/mobile-platform game programmers). The number of Yahtzee sets purchased since its first production in 1956 is likely in the vicinity of a billion, and over a dozen different Yahtzee-branded games have joined it over the years. No doubt needless to say here, Yahtzee is easily the best known published game of this kind. And as they're played for high score, they are especially suitable for solitaire play I tend to keep my record-high score sheets! As an added plus, I've yet to encounter one whose dice clearly hate me (I say at risk of jinxing myself). The blend of luck and choice really appeals to the probability/combinatorics lover that I am. The strategy comes about from each category only being available to be scored ONCE - one category gets filled every turn, and if one's dice don't have anything that works with the remaining categories at a turn's end, something has to get marked with a zero. However, I've always had a great fondness for the so-called 'category dice game' - where a group of dice are rolled each turn, usually with some number of optional rerolls allowed, and the result being scored as one of several categories, typically inspired by Poker hands. I respect all gaming equipment, but generally speaking, it seems cards love me and dice hate me the only game pieces I've ever intentionally destroyed (apart from Risk Legacy, natch) were the dice in my copy of The Settlers of Catan, which I flushed because they didn't burn like they deserved to (and not for lack of trying).

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