YACHT [source: Richard L. Frey, According To Hoyle] Any number may play.Five dice are used.Each player in rotation may cast the dice three times in each round, and there are twelve rounds in all. After each of his first two casts in each round a player may pick up and cast over as many of the dice as he wishes.The faces of the five dice showing on the table at the end of his third cast (or at the end of a previous cast, if he chooses to stand on what he has) must be scored in whichever of the following categories the player chooses: Yacht (five of a kind) scores 50. Big Straight (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) scores 30. Little Straight (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) scores 30. Full House (three of one kind and two of another); Four of a Kind, and Choice (any five dice): each scores the total number of pipes showing on the five dice cast in that turn. Sizes scores as many times six as there are sixes among the five dice; likewise with Fives, Fours, Threes, Twos and Aces. In each turn a player must select a category not previously selected; therefore at the end of the game he will have se- lected each category once. He may select a category even though it will make his score zero for that turn; thus, having tried for Little Straight and missed, he may select Aces even though his dice show 2-2-3-4-5, because the most he could ever score for Aces would be 5 and it is the cheapest category to forego. Having wound up with 6-6-5-4-3 when trying for Big Straight, he may select Choice and score 24, which is close to the maximum he could make with five dice in any case. A special score sheet is usually ruled off, to keep track of the categories each player has previously selected and the scores he has made. The maximum scores possible are: Yacht 50 Full house 28 Fours 20 Big Straight 30 Choice 30 Threes 15 Little Straight 30 Sixes 30 Twos 10 Four of a Kind 29 Fives 25 Aces 5