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Playing Yahtzee with a Younger child


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We have Yahtzee Jr -- but my daughter REALLY wants to use the number dice.  (She's 6)

 

She can play "up" some games (rummikub, Skip-Bo). She's advanced, but not THAT advanced when it comes to numbers. She is not good enough at adding up numbers to deal with the numbers in Yahtzee.

 

Anyway way to modify the rules in Yahtzee proper to play with a younger child? Ideally it would also have some adding involved -- just smaller numbers.  Using Yahtzee to practice adding and subtracting up to about 20 would be great!

 

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We used to play only the top half or bottom half of the score card when we had a younger player. :)

 

That would be great. The top half only is VERY similar to the rules in Yahtzee JR, but you look at numbers instead of faces of cartoon characters. and BOTH players can get 4-of-a-kind in a particular number!

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It might make it easier if there were numbers not dots. Yatzee is not that hard, especially if she can play Rummikiub, but sometimes the dots get in the way.

 

Try wraping the dice in masking tape and writing the numbers on each side instead.

 

If the adding is still hard, give her a cheat sheet to work with. It will help with memorizing facts.

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