The Weirdest and Wildest of Yahtzee
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Roll those dice big boy! But not from your hand like a peasent, from a cup that will thoughouhly confuse anyone in the immediate vicinity! Let's take a look at some of the strangest tie-ins and revamps that Yahtzee has put out over its long life. Who knows? Maybe you'll find your next decorative piece somewhere in here.
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ONCE AGAIN I am forced to apologize. I did not realize that the Dice used in the Oogie Boogie version were the exact ones he used in the movie. This is very cool, so I will move his dice above Pac-Man's in the rankings. I am truly sorry, Mr. Boogie.
Which Yahtzee Tie-In was your favorite? Or are you more of a Casino Yahtzee fan? Jack Klugman or Tony Randall?
you should do an uno version of this.
jar proof rainbow dash edition
I still can't get over the use of Hinden-Peter
I actually found Jackpot Yahtzee and Casino Yahtzee at a local collectables store about a month ago. I haven't found an opportunity to try Casino Yahtzee yet but I found Jackpot Yahtzee to be really fun, even in singleplayer (my best score is 480) :>
I actually have a copy of Pac-Man Yahtzee, so I'll go with that one. The only downside is that, after playing it a few times, the paint started to chip on the dice.
The slushee cup from the glee version is probably the best thing they could have picked. In the show a common prank the characters pull on each other is "slusheeing" them. Basically throwing a slushee on them. So it's an iconic symbol of the show that makes for a simple logical Yahtzee cup.
Yessss, the moment I saw Glee I knew it had to be a slushy cup.
When all the songs from the show made their way to iTunes every week, the album art for the singles in season 2 was always a slushie of some color. They drilled that iconography into us HARD.
will still never forgive them for stealing from Jonathan Coulton
My initial guess was a microphone, but a slushee is way better
Sounds like a pretty shit prank tbh. "Haha you're cold, wet, and sticky!" Sounds more like bullying. Oh what it's a school drama these *are* bullying pranks. Not just good natured fun pranks. Forgot the genre for a sec there
"Jar proof rainbow dash design" killed me omfg
I must have missed this meme plox explain with as much graphic language as needed. (for science)
He time traveled!
@@DeconvertedMan so basicly, some crazy fans place character figurines into Mason jars and then fill said jars with [REDACTED]. The large base on the cup here prevents people from being able to fully fit Rainbow dash into a jar.
@@LoneFox-zs5rj Oh. Well. Bigger jar then.
As opposed to those man proof jars.
I had no clue that there were even themed Yahtzees. Granted, I usually just buy a 5-pack of dice and manually make the scorecard to avoid paying Hasbro.
@@westhescrub A noble cause, keep up the good work!
Boardgame piracy!
What is the problem with paying hasbro. I’m sure there’s a reason, I’m just not in the know
@@RyanTheSharkie69they sent the pinkertons to steal some guy’s rare magic the gathering cards
@@RyanTheSharkie69 I have no reason, I'm just a professional hater
"Roll for perception"
"Yahtzee"
"The ghoul dies"
yahtzee D&D would genuinely go so hard
Honestly, Yahtzee d&d could even have a variability mechanic, where you get a bonus to rolling the different categories of Yahtzee that are not counting the amount of ones-sixes.
You get really high bonuses for first time use of to represent doing an action that surprises the enemy, but if you roll it again you get a smaller bonus to represent that the thing may be new but is being adjusted to. This bonus mechanic can only really be done once per encounter. If you roll all the categories that are not counting the amount of same numbers, then you get advantage on an incredibly hard-hitting move. The catch is that this can only happen once per play session so that you cannot just roleplay that you are so creative you can always make creative use of hard-hitting attacks.
This is in addition to using scores to add success, in case the rules sound very limiting, but they must be.
"Jar-proof Rainbow Dash"
You nearly got me in a traffic accident from laughter, Kam. Thank you.
I'll get you next time!
i know i listen to some weird stuff while driving but you are listening to board game reviews and driving??? what
@@darknes4150Don't judge them
@@darknes4150 Erm, actually, this is a dice games review. 🤓
@@bonedude666 the bottom of an upturned cup is a board of sorts
Who at Hasbro pitched Giant Yahtzee? "Fuck it, the cup is a bucket and the dice are huge. The pencil and scorecard are normal sized."
Innovators, visionaries even
They probably saw those handcrafted wooden lawn Yatzees I usually see for sale at my local craft goods expos and decided "Hey why can't we do that too"?
It makes it a yard game. Kinda awesome ngl. My family likes this dumb fun game and background yard games like cornhole.
Coming next: Micro Yahtzee. The cup is a thimble.
@@lawlore Super Impulse is way ahead of ya
The fact that the Sriracha cause version has "Shake well" on the box is just perfect
Kinda sad there's no YuGiOh tie-in Yahtzee. Pot of Greed would make an excellent cup.
I swear I've seen one that's the Millennium Puzzle, but maybe I'm mistaking it for something else.
I SUMMON POT OF GREED TO ROLL 3 ADDITIONAL DICE ON MY TURN
Dice Hold ‘em has probably resulted in exactly one person in all of human history being assaulted or killed due to a Yahtzee flush.
OKAY so. recovered glee fan. but a main part of how cartoonishly "revenge of the nerds" lima high school is is that the popular kids will just straight assault the "gleeks" by slamming slushie cups on their clothes/faces/both. a big moment in the first season is how the glee club during their performance grab slushie cups of their own and throw it in the faces of the audience, but it's confetti so it's actually really fun! anyways the fun part of all this is that they didn't even get the proper color for the cup. the iconic (i can't believe i said that) slushie color was red because the writers saw carrie one time i think. anyways the color red is significant because red/white is the color of the cheer-ios, the high school cheerleading team, and therefore the confetti in that big number was red. where did they even get that shade of electric blue from.
tldr: the slushie cup is glee iconography because it's a symbol of being a loser, which the show's characters pride themselves on being. this symbology quickly falls off after season two tho so it's like. whatever.
Thank you for your help, I was very lost there! I hope your Glee Recovery continues to go well too.
If memory serves, I think they kept the slushy in advertising, like in ads and on audio-only TH-cam videos of the season's songs, and the colors of the background and slush would be specific to the season. I'm sure it was blue at least once, and they might've been worried that if they made a _specifically red_ slushy the unalterable core of their iconography they'd get some irritated e-mails from The Icee Company.
I assumed Kam's question was about the color because have never seen a single episode of Glee and knew the slushees were somehow iconic; I learned that during its maximum of general cultural presentation during the first season or so. I have only seen a few clips of the cheer coach which I liked, and a couple of good musical numbers, and a couple that seemed very weird out of context. (The one I remember was "Uptown Girl" sung by gay teenage boys at a posh private school to a woman working as their own teacher. It seemed almost cartoonishly opposite to anything Billy Joel had in mind and didn't really work cheekily recontextualized or anything.) Anyway this is my long winded way of saying I think the loser thing seemed pretty thoroughly discarded as well, or at least inconsistently applied. I would be very surprised if it was a sharply written show, though it seemed to be a lot of fun for its fans. Great iconography for Yahtzee adaptation and I'd definitely buy it if I were a game collector. I just play them so I just use generic dice and paper!
You know, I haven’t played enough board games in my life, but you definitely make hearing about them interesting. You’re funny, you go well into the depths with these videos, and you keep finding ways to keep things fresh. If anyone was going to keep me engaged for 24 minutes talking about different versions of Yahtzee, it was definitely going to be you!
Thank you! I really have to try with the subject matter here
2:47 I would say Oogie Boogie has the best dice because they are a recreation of the actual dice he uses in the movie. To me that’s cooler than just putting images on dice
My oldest child loves Yahtzee and is obsessed with Cup Ramen. I got her the Cup Noodles Yahtzee a few years back and she loves it.
"Put [Slimer cup] on the mantle on a conversation starter, the only thing you'll get is 'What's the matter with you?'"
I mean to be fair, that would happen with a normal Yahtzee cup too.
They should have a call of duty theme, call it yahtzee zombies
Gosh Dangit
My personal favorite is Dungeons & Dragons Yahtzee. That one comes with a dice tower instead of a cup, so you can also use it for your D&D games. Perfect for my fellow Rogues who need all the d6s they can find.
I had a Pokemon Yahtzee back in the day, it was a slightly revamped game. The dices were marked with 6 differents Pokemons (Charmander, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Pikachu, Jigglypuff and Ditto). The goal was to make Yahtzees with the first 5 ones, with possibility to trasform Ditto into any other Pokemon.
That type of Yahtzee is known as Yahtzee Juniorm
My favourite Yahtzee is Yatzy. The knockoff we bought from the poundshop ten years ago and is still going strong in our collection!
Yetzy was more a knockoff of Yacht than Yahtzee
Yatzy and Yacht are both related public domain folk games. Yatzee is just Hasbro's branded version of those. So if anything Yatzee is the knock-off.
Is poundshop like a British version of a dollarstore?
We have a Legend of Zelda Yahtzee where the cup is a little treasure chest and the dice are translucent colored dice that match the different colored rupees in the video games.
ooh you could modify it to be d4s and make them look like the triforce
My favorite Yahtzee is the one who used to work for the Escapist
The one from Second Wind?
Quite a good choice, Reasonable Horse.
i never understood how one gets such a nickname
@pontosanaz6485 He gave it to himself.
What I enjoy most about your videos is the guy in his 60s that you have locked up to write jokes about euchre and Don Knotts. (The euchre joke was painfully accurate.)
“Jarproof Rainbow Dash”
You know some people are gonna take that as a challenge, right?
As a furry who has bought a suspicious amount of stuffed animals from my local Walmart to the point that I'm probably on some kind of list, I can confirm that nothing is jar-proof if you're brave enough.
I need context on what that’s supposed to mean
@@Czarro672 Exactly.
I remember getting Showdown Yahtzee as a present as a child. I loved Yahtzee, but had no idea how to play Showdown Yahtzee, and neither did my parents, so we just played regular Yahtzee with it in a big fancy tray.
I actually bought that Firefly one for my Dad! He's a big fan of the show, and it basically just functions as a mini model of the ship for display
We had Casino Yahtzee growing up. We played it like twice. I def remember it being fun, but my biggest memory is of seeing the box in the game closet all the time and never touching it lol.
“Jar-proof rainbow dash design”
DRAT! CURSES! FOILED AGAIN!!!
Uno is a foreground game AND YOU KNOW IT!!
The box is probably meant to be the cup for the Wednesday edition since a coffin is the most appropriate option for an Adam's Family related show.
My favourite themed yhatzee is goat yhatzee, otherwise known as goatse
I've heard very mixed reviews on that one, people say it's a great surprise gift though!
SCOTT THE WOZ REFERENCE
Alright, that's a bit of a stretch
@@qwertzy121212i unfortunately get that joke
The rules for that are *far* too open-ended.
Last thing I expected to hear today was the funny board game channel referencing the My Little Pony jar.
8:00 fun fact: USAopoly are the same people behind scott the woz monopoly
The public domain version of this game is just "Yacht", much like how "Uno" is a copyrighted version of "Crazy Eights".
Yahtzee was my grandpa’s favorite game. We played all the time. I forgot about until now, I’m going to ask to play a game next time I see him.
It was my mom's favorite game too. She's gone now so I can no longer play with her, but I may play some solo in memory of her. I always found the game meh, not terrible but not an ideal way to spend time unless you have literally nothing else, but she loved it. For a time she had one of those cheap electronic handheld versions and that could occupy her for hours.
Make sure you appreciate your loved ones because they won't always be there.
I thought this was a Nazi joke at first, I feel ashamed
9:06 If my Suikoden experience is anything to go by, I believe you're supposed to roll the dice INTO the bowl, so they (hopefully) don't go skittering across the table.
They missed the chance to call Jackpot Yahtzee "Jackpotzee"
"Jar-proof Rainbow Dash" oh thank goodness. The only way a Rainbow Dash should be made
As a That One Guy/Thing fan, I approve of your video.
I had Super Mario Yahtzee. The dice had items from the games, and the "cup" was a question mark block. You basically had to hold it with two hands and hear the dice loudly hit the sides lol
Rolling out of the Tardis with Dr. Who Yatzee is fun.
Ah, a game like Battleship. If you have scrap paper, you don't need to buy.
I grew up playing Ultimate Yahtzee on the family PC, which had the classic game as well as a few revamps. I gagged as soon as I saw you bring out Triple Yahtzee; I would never play that one because it took way too damn long.
...which is to say, none of the other 3 revamps came up in your video and I'd recommend each of them. Painted Yahtzee might be my favorite.
don't think you can slip in that reference to the eternally iconic "Spencer Launches A Bagel Into Griffin's Rectum" without me noticing!
good stuff as always
At the end of Casino Yahtzee, you slide the black tray that holds the chips in place to the right, and they fall back into the bowl. It's so satisfying!
"Nose to the limestone" blew my brain out my ears. Truely KamSandwich is the Shakespeare of our time
I had the kermit Yahtzee as a kid but i never got to play it because no one in my house could open the kermit head so i just had a decapitated kermit in my home
I can't wait to watch this one. I remember when I was a kid, we had a computer yatzee game with 5 different games. It was normal, pyramid dice, painted dice, battle, and triple. It was awesome. It always got me wondering if they had these games in real life
I had that exact same CD when I was a kid.
This is the first video I've watched from you, and between the pitch perfect description of both Euchre and the experience of a Firefly fan, I am eager to see more.
There's actually another Yahtzee spin-off i own called "Yahtzee Free-for-all". It's a competitive version where you place 3 cards (each having your standard Large Straight, Small Straight, Full House, etc.), and you take turns trying to get one of the cards, each having their own point values. If you fail to get any (or steal a card from someone else by getting a better dice roll), you place chips next to the current cards to increase their point value. It's hard to summarize in a comment, but you should definitely give it a look.
in germany the game is called kniffel and we have next to the usual variation "kniffel extreme" which adds a d10, "kniffel 7" which is played with 7 dice and a 7 on random faces of the dice, "karten kniffel" which is played with playing cards that have the dice on them (???) and "zock n roll" which is a combination of yahtzee and texas holdem : )
I dunno, this video seems like a Dicey one...
Eyyyyyyyyyyy
Just roll with it
Word yahtzee is one of those games your middle school English teacher would have that you'd hope they would break out because it's a Friday and they don't want to teach
Hello! I actually worked at USAopoly/The Op in Carlsbad,CA and I personally was one of the people that helped the design of most of these Yatzee games that you reviewed so it's cool to see my work on a channel I watch!
Which ones did you help designing?
That is cool! Which one's were you involved with?
@@kamsandwich @MyHandleIsAplaceholder
I helped with Kuromi, Hello kitty, Ramen (little bit), Siracha ( a little bit), wednesday (only yahtzee I was fully apart of), and lilo and stitch (this one is my favorite cause of the dice design, so good I yoinked one when I left).
Unrelated to yahtzee I also helped manufacture and design many monopoly themed games like squishmellow, scottthewoz, guy fierri, shrek re-brand, and "publix" games.
@@cookiecreeper22what was the atmosphere like at the Op?
@@themanwiththerubyshadow Outside of wednesday game testing days, boring and misreble. If you want to heard the full story I can send a dm, I don't want to trauma dump in youtube comments haha
Kam promoting Cup Noodles, what a time to be alive! 🍜
you see he didn’t put the word “worst” in the title because there isn’t a bad yahtzee game
the reaction to the ghostbuster cup is how i decide which rooms to show my guests
Not a fan of the show myself, but I remember watching a few Glee episodes when I was younger and the slurpee cup is probably a reference to the running gag of the main characters getting a slurpee splashed in their face by bullies.
I have the borderlands one and honestly it's great to just have sitting on a shelf. Claptrap looks so good
5:48 love this subtle dig at EA
@@bassett_green It's a prize that you get to experience and I don't have to put effort into, a win-win!
the Wednesday one missed a huge opportunity to make the cup thing. the writs area is already cup shaped
In my family it was common to play Yahtzee in parallel like shown in the first revamp, just without any scoring changes. Each player would get a full page of the score sheet to fill in, and got to pick freely which of the 5-6 columns to fill each turn.
The reason was simply that single-column Yahtzee was too luck-based for our tastes. Playing multiple columns lets you strategise to hopefully get that +35 bonus for the top half in most columns, along with giving some wiggle room in case you e.g. rolled several straights in a row.
It went so far that my father sat down and programmed a 6-column, 2-player version himself to play on the computer. I didn't know Yahtzee was usually played one column at a time until well into my teenage years.
Missed an opportunity to make the Wednesday version be a full-on Addams Family version with Thing as the dice... hand (instead of the cup). Also gotta say the 70s/80s rainbow motif logo is a lot nicer looking/less off-putting than that curved generic font current logo on the themed versions.
this guy is the light-world Board James
6:30 the reference is minor characters throwing slushies into the club member's faces
no clue why they made it an entire marketing thing, its dumb and stupid and i hate glee
Nearly choked on my drink when I heard the phrase "jar-proof Rainbow Dash". Good lord.
I love your style of comedy, especially the way you deliver each joke so casually. It reminds me a lot of the original clone high, and it makes your videos a blast to watch
I have one that's Dragon Ball Z Themed; I bought it on a whim at Goodwill one day. I also have one that's SPAM Themed that I bought at the SPAM Museum Gift Shop.
The spam one using stickers makes me sad
@@BlUsKrEEm That kinda sucked yeah but it does come in a SPAM Shaped 🎲 shaker at least. Besides unless you're being insanely rough to them, they should be fine for years of use and if you want to help on the wear and tear you could always line the 🎲 shaker in felt.
It's actually genuinely astonishing that they never tried adding more dice or more sides to the dice.
Today I learned that themed Yahtzee even exists. though I've never actually bought an official version of Yahtzee it's just way easier to use a digital score card and regular-ass dice
Kam is the Scott The Woz of board games
Yahtzee is just poker but with dice. I stand by this fact and will die on this hill
This has quickly become one of my favorite channels, your newer content is especially great!
I really like those old school boxes the revamped Yahtzees have. It's the streaks of colors
"What was the cause of death?"
"Yahtzee flush"
Yahtzee Texas Hold 'Em could have very well been its own game with a clever name, like Texas Rolled 'Em.
I really enjoy your channel. It has a good mix of seriousness and fun. Thank you!
Clicked this and went “Oh I own that one!” at the muppets yahtzee part :>
15:55 I have this one. It is a LOT of fun!
In family guy Yahtzee, they actually added a new rule. Anytime when someone rolls, they have to flap their hands and yell Yahtzee.
Damn it... that Kuromi version looks great, and my gf has a collection fo Kuromi stuff. Now begins the hunt to buy it in México and not pay double the price for delivery.
13:28 Bruh the gag of you spelling a word with fart in it 3 times over had me dying for a solid 30 seconds 😂
4:14 "jar-proof" 😮
13:18 “seven dice that feature various letters” *one of the dice has a rhombus on the top face*
There was a chance to have the Wednesday Yahtzee cup be Thing and they failed miserably.
I managed to get Glee and Firefly's cups correct back-to-back, so that's some easy pride and accomplishment!
Tbf this sounds more interesting than just sticking an image of the character on a normal shaped cup that I would expect them to do
Your commitment to the box-to-the-head bit is admirable.
I remember the challenge Yahtzee board. My grandma had a copy at her house that was very old and was missing pieces. I had no idea how it was supposed to work so i just played regular yahtzee with the dice. I didn't realize it was a different edition
i actually played the cup noodles version while i was camping with my family and i was just waiting for the inevitable reveal that cup noodles yahtzee exists
8:19 KUROMI JUMPSCARE
Seeing Monopoly Cheater’s Edition on screen again made me viscerally angry
I have a yahtzee parody that I can't say without getting banished to the shadow realm
I was literally looking through the games in my grandmothers basement the other day and found a very old game of triple Yahtzee, now I see this video two days later
The muppet tie-in sucks. I own it, and let alone the bad Kermit dice rolling, the dice’s images scrap off incredibly easily turning it into a chore to tell what you rolled.
casino Yahtzee reads weirdly as a at home take of old timey bingo pinball (a flipperless pinball format popular in the 30s to 50s i think)
I just want to note, there's a game called Gekido that's a combination of Yahtzee and a small scale skirmish game where the players are robots in a battle arena. I know 3rd party games aren't considered for this, but I wanted to share this for anyone wanting a somewhat unique experience. Also, amazing YTP reference.
I feel like the worst part about Texas Hold'em Yahtzee is the fact that there is _so much_ missed potential there in combining a Poker game with the formula, just from the fact that so many of Yahtzee's scoring method is similar to Poker games' alone. I don't know how exactly you would mix them, but I feel like there's several kind of directions you could take it to make it not only a better game overall, but actually tie into the Yahtzee formula more faithfully while not being too similar to just the normal form of it. Plus, it allows more themed edition potential, considering Texas Hold'em usually involves chips and cards, which could have all sorts of stylistic variations of course.
(Apologizes if I got anything wrong. Most of my experience with scoring like this outside of Yahtzee is through 51 Clubhouse Games on Nintendo Switch, and the Poker game mode in Bejeweled 3, I'm not even joking.)
The Firefly Serenity cup actually works great. It's not too big and looks great too. Very detailed.
Word Yahtzee is actually peak
Was not expecting Yahtzee to enter the post structuralist dimension of questioning the very boundaries of what it means to Yahtzee but here we are