Score high enough on the first five Phases and you’ll receive a 40 point bonus for your efforts. Fail on your turn and you must try again on your next. With this game you have to complete the Phases in order. In Yahtzee you have the luxury of being able to complete any task on the scoresheet. “W’s” are wild and can be used for any number – important when trying to complete some of the harder Phases.
There are 6 dice with numbers 5 through 10, and four with 1 through 4 and two “W’s” on each of them. But instead of five standard dice, Phase 10 Dice includes ten custom versions.
Phase 10 Dice uses the familiar Yahtzee rolling mechanic (roll, set aside your keepers, re-roll, again set aside your keepers and then one final roll). While we still don’t own a copy of the best-selling Phase 10, we had a lot of fun with Phase 10 Twist, a Thrift Treasure from last October. This week we happened across a copy of Phase 10 Dice. Triple Yahtzee was my favorite because not only did you have to try to fill your scorecard, you had to do so three times, each time deciding whether or not your score was high enough to warrant placement in the 3x column. I doubt there’s a single one of my readers that has never owned or played a copy. One game I remember playing a lot when growing up was Yahtzee.
