Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. games, trademark A probability game where players amass scores depending on the values of the five dice they roll.
- n. In the game of Yahtzee, a five-of-a-kind, where all dice show the same value, which is the highest-scoring combination.
Etymologies
- Coined by Milton Bradley Company in 1956 (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I love lots of other games too (Yahtzee is a personal favourite, and 500, and any of those sort of games that you can play a million times and never have the same result) but Scrabble is the one I get to indulge in the most, because said mother and self tend to fit in at least one game every time we visit.”
“For the rest of the meeting, we talked about whether there was any potential in a movie called "Yahtzee!”
“*** Andre Ethier's 5-for-5 night compelled me to search for what I decided to call Yahtzee games: games in which a player's boxscore line read "5 5 5 5.”
“(your slides) and words (your voice) to communicate your narrative. brilliant, irreverant, and filthy video game reviews of Ben Croshaw (aka Yahtzee) are basically the funniest Powerpoint presentations you've ever seen, and a perfect example of what I'm talking about.”
“Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw is a game reviewer who shot to fame with Zero Punctuation, a weekly series of video reviews for the”
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“Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw is a game reviewer who shot to fame with Zero”
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“• Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's video review site, Zero Punctuation, receives over 2,500,000 unique hits a month, and has been licensed by G4 Television.”
“Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw hasn't been sleeping this week, writing about not a blank slate:”
“P. 41 - Mogworld: Hey, it's the long-awaited solicitation for Ben "Yahtzee”
“The Chzo Mythos is the epic horror adventure game by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Yahtzee’.
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Fads
With bows of great respect to Connie Willis, author of "Bellwether" and other wonderful books.
Hula-Hoop, bungee-jumping, hair-bobbing, pogs, jitterbug, jogging, mesmerism, Ouija board, miniature golf, The Old Curiosity..., Harry Potter, line dancing and 271 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 3)
fibers, gypsy, polymer, schism, syphilitic garden..., holocaust, scrutinant, contemplate, aftermath, consequence, deadlock, impasse and 153 more...
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Trademarks
"A trademark is any word, name, symbol, or design, or any combination thereof, used in commerce to identify and distinguish the goods of one manufacturer or seller from those of another and to indi...
Academy Award, Ace bandage, Acrilan, Addressograph, Alar, Alcian blue, Alclad, Aldis lamp, Ampakine, Amtrak, Amytal, Angostura bitters and 661 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for Yahtzee.
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