Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 07:10 am
Original Yatzy – Board Game Review
Original Yatzy is a Board/Casual game from Scott Slocum, first launched in 28th August 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,121+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Original Yatzy Stand Out
Exactly like the classic game. Original Yatzy can be played on even the smallest iPhone with a scoring magnification that makes it easy. You play against opponents. Optional speed let's you play very fast if you want.
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Original Yatzy is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th November 2024
Recent improvements include:
Fixed bug which allowed players to hold dice before throwing them.
Thanks to oc20896 for pointing it out to me.
Download & Availability
Original Yatzy is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Original Yatzy on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Random 0 appears in a box and causes players to start game over. Hoping for a solution soon.
Fun! Doesnt need WiFi and doesnt use up battery.
This is the best game ever! We would totally recommend.
Gosh we love this app – appreciate the simple user interface. – Ive played a couple different versions and this one feels the most like real yatzy. – got us through multiple hours on airplanes with kids screaming. – appreciate the single advertisement window off to the side and no popups to harass us. Just a few suggestions: 1. We love the top 10 scores of all time. We feel like adding a worst 10 scores of all time would be great. One time our robot opponent Jessica scored 89 points and we feel like that needs to go on record. 2. When you play with an empty opponent slot, the game doesnt end. You have to go back to the main menu and manually start a new game. 3. The reset button is right in the middle of the menu and its a little too easy to confuse it with restart or new game and accidentally wipe the game history, which we eventually sadly did. It might be better off hidden a level deeper in the options section or something.
Love this game.please fix the bugs.Game is so much fun.
We switched to this game a few weeks ago. The game we have played for years became so glitchy and players that would quit when losing. Its so refreshing to have a game that always loads up and plays smoothly. You only play a computer opponent but a very fun and smooth running game.
The score board has too many rows making screen real estate tight. We cant use our ten thumbs on such a tiny board.
The app would not allow us to claim our three fives as three of a kind. It also continues to have repeated errors in scoring but not allowing you to select various sections that should be available. We had three 5s but we were not given the option to use it as a three of a kind. Each time we attempted to use three of a kind it scored as zero.
So basically for example when the other person rolls a yatzy we can click on four of the dice and when its our turn we will get those four when its our turn and its not just for a yatzy but its goes for any thing and we dont have to Click on four dies we could click on three two or one and we will still get the dice we clicked on so if you could please try to fix that so when we play against someone they cant try to do that to us and besides that bug the game is awesome.
Most relaxing and enjoyable game for us. Hours of fun.
Great for passing time or playing friend. We forgot how fun this game is.
We played this on our way out to San Diego and back home again to Philly.
We love playing this game. Often it will crash and when it comes back, we lose a roll. Im set up in the second position.
It would be nice if there was an option to pick between beginner and experienced levels. Only because we win every time and thats not fun without a challenge. Thx for listening. We do luv the game though.
Fun, simple, and easy to play. Small ad doesnt take up much screen space and doesnt interrupt play. Our only complaint is that its too easy to blow away the computer competitor because it makes the dumbest logic decisions as to where to score the final roll. Im sure thats hard to program but its pretty ridiculous. Still, we view this more as a game of Solitaire than competition against a computer so we will continue to play.
Not always accurate on keeping score. Sometimes a0 will show up in the score we didnt add orr sometimes it wont give you a yahzy bonus.
We have the current version of this app installed on our iPhone. It has been a lot of fun. Until recently. After playing it for a few years, suddenly one of our opponents scores started to automatically fill in and we could not stop that. We lost that game. It happened again so we forced the app closed, and then it completely froze up. We had to uninstall then re-install the app. Now this scenario recurs after playing less than 10 times after re-installing. We are constantly removing and re-adding the app. We lose all our player names and score history. Very disappointing.
We do not know why but it has a bug in it where it is playing by its self and you cant play it.
Couldnt play on phone the typeface too small and caused us to miss score.
Nice and fun and love the ads just sitting at the top and not ruining the play.
Great game, great app, no ads, highly recommend. But one thing we hate the top 10 scores are all listed as computer bots, why would anyone care about that? Ive played tons of games and cant see what any of our highest scores are. Makes no sense.
We had so much fun playing this game. We really got into a routine and we enjoyed it so much then one day it froze. We cant get it back. We cant get it to work and we miss it so much we dont know what happened but we have tried and tried and tried everything, nothing works. We hope one day itll come back to us. Thank you Scott we sure do hope our phone gets to lay again one day.
Every body should try this game this one is very fun and easy to play and fast.
Game provides opponent and the play is exactly like it is with friends around the table, its too bad you cant congratulate the other person on an excellent roll or a well played game.
Very smooth. A few adds, not many. And youre not set up to loose. It plays like the classic dice game.
We needed to pack light for an international trip and wanted something to fill downtime on the airplane and other places with no connection. Found several of your games worked for our trip! Thanks.
Truly enjoyable. Just like the paper and pad game.
Best thing ever so convenient because Im practicing for school.
We love this game and play it a lot but it doesnt give us the bonus when we get a second Yatzy! The computer player always gets a bonus with the second Yatzy. No fair.
Second Yatzy bonus not given after third Yatzy. Not a problem before.
Love this game but it sure does knock you out a lot!please fix. This game knocks you out time after time. Cant you fix it.
97% of the time this game is great, then out of the blue it glitches and closes the game. When you open the game back up it continues where you left off except it makes you enter your ending roll on the scorepad a second time, then at the end of the game you can't enter your final roll therefore you can't end the game and never know who won. Therefore losing an entry on the stats board. However out of the 58 games we played so far it only has done this glitch 3 times. The only other thing that could be switched up is (and this is so unimportant) is that we get tired of always being the first one to roll. In real life the winner rolls first the next challenge. Other than that it's great how you can change the speed of the game. It's also cool that we can change the names of the computer generated other players, which makes it more diverse in our opinion.
1 game did not put our total in a slot. We played hundreds of games & this happens!! Come on, fix this. For the better. We will give better results when it is not freezing like this.
This game has frozen 2 times in 2 days. We had to reset our whole game play and lose stats just to continue playing. We have a new phone so its not a phone issue. We have a screenshot of our game where there are no moves and it wants us to put an answer in and there are no boxes left yet our opponent just made a move and has another move. We have no moves left. Cant continue again. So annoying to have to lose stats to reset. Not playing if we have to reset.
Fun game to play, but game crashes at least once after playing a couple of games.
First we think this game is great. We play it on an iPad and enjoy it very much. Just one flaw. When we get a second Yatzy, if a put it in the four of a kind slot, we often do not get our 100 point bonus for a second Yatzy The game we just finished, we were lucky and got three Yatzees but we only got one bonus.
Too many times to be a coincidence, you'll zero out something and the next roll you'll get the category you zeroed out. As an example, we had to zero out "Fives" right after we zeroed out Yahtzee. Guess what our next roll was? You guessed it 5 Fives or Yahtzee! Things like this happen way to frequently to be random. What are the odds.
Amazing how when you roll for the second or third time the exact same numbers appear.
Dear Creator – we are an avid YAHTZEE player so Ive played all kinds of Yahtzee games. And apps! Ive had your app for 10 years, we think, played 1000s of games on it! However, there are a few things that we dest about your app which you arent fixing, we keep hoping but you havent.. First – you can only add 2 human playe rs, this is stupid! You should be able to add more.. Second – And the most ANNOYING, FRUSTRATING thing – if you accidentally hit the player buttons, til take you to where you type your name, it then ERASES ALL NAMES AND. ALL STATS! It should not do this, the human player(s) should be the ONLY WAY SOMING OR A NAME GETS CHANGED , DEFINITELY! And it should be only by Clicking delete. You could even have an are you sure) before the final delete! There are people who play your game, who have coordination problems, we ourselves, have CP and our hand shakes , elder people, have the same problems. So, it be great if you on your next update, fix these problems! Then your app will be near perfect. Thanks, MITSY P.S. Please move your Reset butt on to the side or something, it as needs a (are you sure you want to delete) if you change. Everything, we bought to your attention- then your App will be closer to being perfect. Oh, it be great if youd fix the Yahtzee section, to wear it counts every Yahtzee that you roll. We can roll up to 5 Yahtzees in a game but we dont get credit for them all! Sad, we think.
This app is amazing! It's functionality is perfect and the best part is the developer isn't mining people's data. Good job man. (Tipping of hat).
While we obviously cant prove it, after repeatedly playing this game (like, hundreds of times), it seems to us that the dice throws are not purely random. Sometimes you need just a single correct dice to complete the upper section and get the 35-point bonus, yet after three throws, it never comes up. Might this happen occasionally? Sure. Yet we feel it happens suspiciously more times than what you would reasonably expect, as if the game is actively preventing you from winning. Or maybe Im just paranoid.
Great Yahtzee! Unlike most games, you can play repeatedly without waiting through annoying ads. Love the colored dots on the dice. The best choice for true Yahtzee lovers. We have a small request though. Would like to have the sound, but its just too loud. Cant turn it down.
We never played Yahtzee before. We learned playing this game.
Where are the human players or are there not any. Like this app but no human players.
We love Yahtzee. Like the speed, but they dont put the dice in order, you have to do the arithmetic yourself. We enjoy it, but we prefer others.
We have played Yatzy for a very long time. Can not find the one we had played on our android. This one will not accept the box we click on and wont let Chang the error, the next player plays. We will be deleting it and finding another one.
Our favorite Yatzy app thus far.
Great gameplay. Computer opponent actually makes decent decisions.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7
- Size: 37.16 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Scott Slocum
Last updated: 29th November 2024 | Genre: Board, Casual | Developer: Scott Slocum