The 1-Upper: Zilch

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The 1-Upper: Zilch

POSTED: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 3:45 AM

Yahtzee!

Alright, let's clear the air ... I love Yahtzee! If there was one game to sustain my sanity were I to be shipwrecked, it would be rolling multiple dice and screaming that word after landing five of a kind. But I've got say that Zilch gives Yahtzee a run for its money, mostly because it involves taking more risks. The premise is similar, but the scoring is slightly different and you need to bank your points. Each round, you need to bank 300 points for any to count toward your total, but you can keep rolling to see if you can get more. There's the risk, though. If you don't land any scoring dice, you get zilch and lose all of your points for that round. Get zilch three times in a row, and it knocks 500 off of your accumulated total. The total you need to reach to win depends on your difficulty setting, but the middle of the road is 10,000. It's a bit tricky, but the game's got a good tutorial to get you up and running.

I only played against the computer, but you can play online or against a friend sitting next to you. It's supposed to be completely random, but it looks to me like the computer gets some lucky bounces.

Check out Zilch here.

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