Definitions
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- proper noun games, trademark A
probability game where players amassscores depending on the values of the fivedice they roll. - noun In the game of Yahtzee, a five-of-a-kind, where all dice show the same value, which is the highest-scoring combination.
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I love lots of other games too (Yahtzee is a personal favourite, and 500, and any of those sort of games that you can play a million times and never have the same result) but Scrabble is the one I get to indulge in the most, because said mother and self tend to fit in at least one game every time we visit.
My day... editormum 2007
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For the rest of the meeting, we talked about whether there was any potential in a movie called "Yahtzee!"
The New Yorker Mindy Kaling 2011
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*** Andre Ethier's 5-for-5 night compelled me to search for what I decided to call Yahtzee games: games in which a player's boxscore line read "5 5 5 5."
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(your slides) and words (your voice) to communicate your narrative. brilliant, irreverant, and filthy video game reviews of Ben Croshaw (aka Yahtzee) are basically the funniest Powerpoint presentations you've ever seen, and a perfect example of what I'm talking about.
Comments for AUSTIN KLEON VIZTHINK AUSTIN 6-18-2008 : sketchbook notes 2009
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Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw hasn't been sleeping this week, writing about not a blank slate:
Gamasutra Feature Articles Ben Abraham 2010
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Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw hasn't been sleeping this week, writing about not a blank slate:
Gamasutra Feature Articles Ben Abraham 2010
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Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw is a game reviewer who shot to fame with Zero Punctuation, a weekly series of video reviews for the
WN.com - Articles related to Ethiopia requests more money for refugees from Somalia and Eritrea 2010
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Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw hasn't been sleeping this week, writing about not a blank slate:
Gamasutra Feature Articles Ben Abraham 2010
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Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw is a game reviewer who shot to fame with Zero
WN.com - Articles related to Ethiopia requests more money for refugees from Somalia and Eritrea 2010
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• Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's video review site, Zero Punctuation, receives over 2,500,000 unique hits a month, and has been licensed by G4 Television.
Comic Book Resources 2010
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This stems largely from the phonetic similarity between the words, leading to instances where individuals substitute “Yahtzee” when referring to Nazis, either as a joke or as a way to disguise inflammatory rhetoric.
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Shortly after posting about a Tesla protest I saw while driving mine, I was called a “Yahtzee,” and then doxxed.
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