About This Game

Forge Dice is a Yahtzee-style game built around 13 categories and three rolls per turn. Each turn you roll five dice. Click any you want to hold, then roll the rest up to two more times. After that, you pick a category to score. The upper section covers Ones through Sixes — you add up the matching faces. The lower section covers 3 of a Kind, 4 of a Kind, Full House (25 points), Small Straight (30), Large Straight (40), Forge Dice (all five matching, 50 points), and Chance. Score 63 or more in the upper section and you get a 35-point bonus.

Each category can only be used once. The game is really about deciding when to use each one. Do you sacrifice a Low Straight now to keep your shot at a Forge Dice later? After each roll, the scorecard shows what you'd earn in every open category. You always know exactly what you're giving up. Progress saves automatically through page refreshes.

Forge Dice runs for 13 rounds — one for each category. The game ends when every slot is filled. There's no AI to beat. You're competing on the leaderboard. Scores above 300 are solid. Chasing the upper bonus while keeping your lower section flexible is what separates good games from great ones.

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History & Background

Forge Dice belongs to a family of dice-scoring games that goes back at least to Yacht, a game from the 1930s played with five dice and a set of scoring categories. Regional versions popped up all over — Generala in South America, Yatzy in Scandinavia. They all share the same core: roll, hold, reroll, score. The name Yahtzee was trademarked by Milton Bradley in 1956 after Edwin Lowe licensed the idea from a Canadian couple who called their version The Yacht Game. Hasbro bought Milton Bradley in 1984 and has sold Yahtzee ever since. It's one of the best-selling boxed games ever made.

The scoring layout in Forge Dice — upper section with a 63-point bonus threshold, lower section with fixed-value combos — is the standard Yahtzee layout from 1956. The bonus target of 63 works out to averaging three of each number, which is a realistic goal without needing lucky streaks. This digital version uses cryptographic randomness for dice rolls instead of a basic random number generator. It also shows live potential scores after each roll, something a paper scorecard can't do.

How to Play

Roll all five dice to start your turn
Click dice to hold them, then roll the remaining dice (up to 2 rerolls)
After your rolls, assign the result to an open scoring category
Upper section (1s-6s): sum of matching dice. Bonus 35 points for 63+ total
Lower section: 3-of-a-kind, 4-of-a-kind, Full House (25), Straights (30/40), Yahtzee (50), Chance
Highest total score after all 13 rounds wins

Tips & Strategy

Take a Forge Dice (five of a kind) whenever you roll one. It's worth 50 points and you can't improve it by rolling again.

Watch the upper bonus tracker. You need 63 points across Ones through Sixes. Average three of each number and you'll hit it. Don't sacrifice a category unless you're already safely above that line.

Use Chance as a dump category for bad rolls late in the game. Don't waste a good lower category on a junk roll when Chance still exists.

Full House scores a flat 25 no matter what faces you have. If you already have three of one and two of another, lock it in.

Small Straight is easier to hit than Large Straight. If you have four in sequence after two rolls, take the 30 points rather than risk it for 40.

Hold pairs early when you're fishing for 3 or 4 of a Kind. Rerolling three dice with a pair already held gives you solid odds.

Don't dump your Sixes category for a low return. Three sixes is 18 points — worth more than most consolation scores.

If you've already secured the upper bonus, use leftover upper categories for any roll rather than zeroing a lower category.

Features

✓ 13 scoring categories

✓ 3 rolls per turn

✓ Dice hold mechanic

✓ Upper section bonus (35 pts)

✓ Yahtzee bonus rounds

✓ Score comparison

Controls

Desktop

Click dice to hold/unhold. Click Roll to reroll. Click a category to score.

Mobile

Tap dice to hold. Tap Roll and categories.