Concept question – expressions of Yahtzee and card games?
I have probably final exam , I am wondering can someone please explain all expressions in Yahtzee and card games like "full house”, and etc. That can be asked.
Honestly I haven't played neither Yahtzee nor card game,
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The Yahtzee combinations are based on poker hands. The numbers on the faces of individual dice are treated like ranks of cards.
Poker is played with a deck of 52 cards. That's 13 cards each in four suits: spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs. The 13 cards in each suit rank (highest to lowest)
Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2
The Ace is the 1 card and in some cases can be treated as low card to make a combination. (I'll mention those cases as I list them.)
The hands are five-card combinations, in descending rank:
Five of a kind: Five cards of the same rank (possible only with "wild card" rules).
Royal flush: Ace, King, Queen, Jack, and 10 of the same suit.
Straight flush: Any other unbroken sequence of 5 cards of the same suit. (That is, with no gaps in the order of rank. The Ace can be low card, so 5, 4, 3, 2, Ace of the same suit is a straight flush.)
Four of a kind: All four cards of the same rank, plus any additional card.
Full house: 3 cards of one rank and 2 cards of another rank.
Flush: Five cards of the same suit.
Straight: Five cards which rank in unbroken sequence.
Three of a kind: 3 cards of one rank, and two additional cards of different ranks.
Two pair: 2 cards of one rank, and 2 of a different rank, plus one additional card.
One pair: 2 cards of one rank, plus three additional cards.
Yahtzee uses the poker combinations which don't involve suits:
Five of a kind is called YAHTZEE. It also uses full house, three of a kind, and four of a kind.
There are only two possible straights in Yahtzee because there are only 6 possible faces on the dice. A small straight is 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. A large straight is 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Two-pair and one-pair combinations don't score in Yahtzee. The other categories are based on counting only the instances of one number (1 through 6) and a "chance" category which allows scoring the total on the dice. In Yahtzee, a player must decide to score each hand in one of the allowed categories, and that category becomes unavailable to him the rest of the game. To score for one of the poker-hand categories, the player must actually achieve the correct combination on the dice.