Yahtzee is one of the most beloved games in our culture, as well as one of the best known games. People have been avidly been playing this fascinating dice game since the conception of the game. It’s now been over 50 years since the game was first born and it still holds the same excitement and thrill that it did when it was invented in 1954. In fact, it is estimated that over 90% of Americans alone are familiar or have played the game of Yahtzee. Over 100 million people world wide play this game on a regular basis. That is obviously a true testament to this very exciting game.

Yahtzee started out very small, and although it is now part of America and other countries worldwide, it wasn’t always that way. In 1954 a wealthy Canadian couple went for a sail on their yacht. It was then that they were thinking of games that they wanted to play to pass the time in between ports. This game of Yahtzee, first called “The Yacht Game” was what came about from their many ideas of games to play. They simply started by playing themselves, and then wanting to make a few copies of the game for their friends. What they found though was that their friends told their friends who told their friends and everyone wanted a copy of this game. It was then that this couple decided to sell their exclusive production rights to Edwin S. Lowe in exchange for the first 1,000 copies to give out to people they knew.

When Edwin Lowe first got the game, the first thing he did was change the name for reasons that are still completely unknown. He changed this game to what is now known as Yahtzee. He immediately fell in love with the game and went about actively marketing his new product. One of the first things he did was to start organizing Yahtzee parties to show off the new game and to show how exciting it can be when people get together and play it. It worked because almost immediately it increased the game’s popularity dramatically just by word of mouth. Edwin Lowe started to see profits almost immediately and continue to profit handsomely.

It was in 1973 that he decided to sell his company, along with his rights to the Yahtzee game to Milton Bradley. Milton Bradley is now a subsidiary to Hasbro, Inc which is one of the largest distributers and inventors of different games around the world. Over the years the Yahtzee game has grown to include several versions of the original game. These include Triple Yahtzee which is three games played at once, Painted Yahtzee which is where the die faces have different colors, Battle Yahtzee where players duel against each other, and Pyramid Yahtzee in which the square dice are replaced by tetrahedral dice. However, proving that this game still has the staying power that it has always had, the original Yahtzee game still remains the favorite among the consumers.