Yahtzee is a game show that aired from January 11 to September 1988. Based on the dice game Yahtzee

Yahtzee

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, the show was hosted by Peter Marshall

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, with Larry Hovis

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 serving as both the show's announcer and a regular panelist. Each week featured a different hostess serving as "dice girl" including Kelly Grant, Denise DiRenzo, and Teresa Ganzel

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Yahtzee was originally taped at Trump's Castle in Atlantic City, NJ, though later it moved to Showboat Hotel & Casino.

Gameplay

Two teams of three players (whom were named according to a common bond, for example "The Rollers" or "The Slapshots") played against each other along with a panel of five celebrities in a game show version of the classic dice game.

Round One

The team in control starting with the challengers got to choose one of six Family Feud

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/Outburst

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-type questions (for example, "a game show with a lady host" or "a food product with the word fruit in its name"). When a question was chosen, host Marshall asked it to the panel, who then wrote down their responses. When they finished, each player starting with the team captain would try in turn to match the stars' answers (ala Match Game

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). The other team would then do the same thing with one of the remaining five questions. The team with the most matches won the round. If the teams had the same number of matches, a tie-breaker involving only the team captains was played. In the tie-breaker, Marshall would read a question and the first team to buzz in (the buzzers on this show were called "The Yahtzee Lock-In Lights") got a chance to match at least one celebrity. If successful, he/she won the round for the team; otherwise, the other team got a free guess.

Rolling the Dice

Winning a round gave the team captain a chance to roll five dice as in regular Yahtzee. The dice were in a huge clear plastic cup given to the player by the "dice girl", and each die had a number replaced by the word WILD. If "WILD" was landed on, that die could be turned into any natural number that showed up on the table. The object of the game was to get five of a kind (aka a "Yahtzee"), or to make a big combination with the dice. If no Yahtzee was made, the closest combination to a Yahtzee was used to build on in the next round (Ex: if three 4's, a 2, and a 6 were rolled, the captain would then try to roll two 4's later on; if two 2's, two 1's, and a WILD were rolled, the captain had a choice of taking three 2's or three 1's).

Three rounds were played but with two exceptions in the other two rounds.

Round Two

The losers of the first round played first and chose from the remaining four questions, leaving the other team with a choice of three. If the winner of the second question round also won the first round, that team rolled to build on the combination made from the last round, but with all five dice (as opposed to using only the remaining dice as in regular Yahtzee.)

Round Three

The losers of the second round played first and chose from the remaining two questions, leaving the other team with the last question. The team that won this round had the option to roll the dice or pass them to the other team. The team that played this dice round got two rolls instead of one. If the winner of the third round also won round 2, that team built on the combination made from the last round.

Winning

The first team to make a Yahtzee, or the team closest to a Yahtzee at the end of three rounds (in other words, one team with four 1's beats the other with three 4's) won the game. If the game ended a tie (one team had four 6's and the other had four 5's, for example), a sudden death question was played, with the same rules as the tie-breaker in the question rounds. The first team to match at least one celebrity won the game.

Format #1

The winning team faces the word YAHTZEE. Under each letter was one of three dollar amounts:

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