Hasbro's dice game YAHTZEE sells some 50 million copies every year, thanks to a winning combination of simple rules, competitive scoring, and modest price. But until now, most players relied on dumb luck in their quest for victory. Advantage YAHTZEE provides a surefire winning edge: an original strategy developed by an expert on game theory that virtually guarantees a high score, yet is simple and straightforward enough for the average player to use on every roll. There are millions of fiercely devoted YAHTZEE players out there, and this is the game-beating system they've been waiting for.

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The Milton Bradley game of YAHTZEE, with its five dice and special score sheets, sold in the millions last year. Now experienced players and newcomers alike can enjoy the game anywhere (in a moving car, for instance), without worrying about losing any of the dice. It's an ingenious use of the scratch-off concept made familiar by lottery games, and which has made a big hit in books such as "Scratch & Solve(R) Hangman." The object of YAHTZEE is to get high-ranking combinations of the dice, similar to poker hands. With this version, competitors "roll" by scratching. Using two copies of the book, readers can complete in exciting head-to-head competitions, where both players start each round with the same roll.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computers and Games, CG 2010, held in Kanazawa, Japan, in September 2010. The 24 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. They cover a wide range of topics such as monte-carlo tree search, proof-number search, UCT algorithm, scalability, parallelization, opening books, knowledge abstraction, solving games, consultation of players, multi-player games, extraversion, and combinatorial game theory. In addition a wide range of computer games is dealt with, such as Chinese Checkers, Chinese Chess, Connect6, Go, Havannah, Lines of Action, Pckomino, Shogi, Surakarta, and Yahtzee.

No more dice to lose, and it can go anywhere: everybody s a winner with this addictive new book! Just as with Hasbro s real YAHTZEE game, players get to roll five dice three times to find their highest score. But instead of throwing actual dice, they "scratch" them off the page, lottery-styleand keep only the dice they want as they go for better combinations with their remaining rolls. With multiple copies of the book, readers can stage head-to-head competitions. And for extra fun, players can compare their score with the author s, with the score obtained using perfect strategy, and with the best possible score you could get if you had x-ray vision.-Hasbro s popular game meets our own best-selling "Scratch & Solve" series for assured success- Today, more than 50 million YAHTZEE games are sold annually-Written by one of the most esteemed puzzle creators around, a championship winner and bestselling author whose work has appeared in America s top newspapers- This easy-to-play and portable version of YAHTZEE can go anywhere, and be enjoyed solo: it s perfect for trips, commutes, or whenever there are a few minutes to spare"

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