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history mystery -- solved?

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Friday, 23 December 2011, at 4:42 p.m.

In Response To: bonus yahtzee: history found everyday... on EBay (Sam Pottle)

Probably spent too much just to research this. And, worse, I have to say "Sam was right." You can't imagine how painful that is!

1969 rules sheet says:

HOW TO USE BONUS CHIPS A player receives one YAHTZEE Bonus Chip when he tosses a second YAHTZEE during a game if, and only if, the first YAHTZEE was scored in the YAHTZEE box. The second YAHTZEE is scored in the appropriate box in the Upper Section or as a Joker, as explained in the preceding paragraph.

The YAHTZEE Bonus Chips are each worth 100 points. At the end of each game, players score the number of points each has in YAHTZEE Bonus Chips and then return the chips to the "kitty". When two tables are playing, divide the Bonus Chips by color.

This is the only mention I see of chips being different colors. My set has twelve red and eight yellow -- I wonder why the asymmetry....

The scoresheets in the set I bought (copyright 1956) have a place on the back for scoring the bonus YAHTZEE. My conclusion (now) is that bonus YAHTZEEs have been part of the game from its inception, as Sam and others surmised/contended.

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