Yahtzee

The Yahtzee game.

The image is from a game with three players.

Installation

Via MELPA (recommended)

If you have a recent version of package.el you can install yahtzee from the MELPA package repository.

Manually

Ensure that yahtzee.el is in a directory on your load-path, and add (require 'yahtzee) to your ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el.

How to play

• M-x yahtzee start a game (in a new buffer)
• C-c n start a new game (in the same buffer)
• C-c p add players
• C-c P reset players
• SPC throw dice
• {1,2,3,4,5} hold outcome of {1,2,3,4,5}-th dice
• UP/DOWN select score to register
• ENTER register selected score
• w save the game (in json format)

The score of a saved game can be loaded using M-x yahtzee-load-game-score.

Notes

Personally I don't enjoy playing with "Yahtzee bonuses" and "Joker rules" so they are not implemented (even thought they are simple to include). Only the "63 bonus" is available (see yahtzee-compute-bonus). Furthermore, some scores differ from the official ones. Changing all this can be done by simply modifying the corresponding functions in the definition of yahtzee-fields-alist.