Yahtzee! Surely a family fun game designed to be played for hours of family fun. Yacht Rock. 70's Light Rock. Air Supply. Christopher Cross. America. Both are easily as interesting as the other. I wish I could say there was something special about owning this game, but really, there wasn't anything. Well, it was easy to play. When I could get friends or my brother or mom to play, it was easy to play. It came with dice that made a neat dice sound when rolling in the included plastic drink ware. Did I mention it was easy to play? I forget what the chips were for because we never used them. That would make it a bit tougher to play. I liked that it was so easy to play. 

It was a E.S. Lowe game when this copy was purchased around 1981. "An Exciting Game Of Skill And Chance". Really? There was skill involved? I guess there was a little bit. When you rolled a set of dice and you got no doubles, no strings of numbers, sometimes you would need to take lower points and hope your next roll would be better. Trouble was, if you got 5 of those "1" s and you had the "1"s filled and you had your other options on the card filled, you were stuck with NOTHING. So, I suppose there was your skill. Otherwise, it was all a game of chance. I guess you could have "skill" at playing a game of craps, but it's all a game of chance. Does that make this family game fun for the ENTIRE family?  Three year olds would want to eat the dice. Rover would eat the dice and pee on the cards. Great Grandpa would use the cup for a spittoon and scratch himself while leaving something in his drawers. That's what I call family entertainment.

Mr Fat Hanz and Mr. Blurry Picture thought you should see the business end of this game. With a golf pencil, you would fill in your score on the front and then place all the totals on the back of the card. See my siding? (Michael Moore, Skitch! Thanks.) You attempted to make what you could, possibly get bonuses and get a higher score to win a game. You could go up to 6 "games" on the card and then grand total and pull out a win. Holy crap! Why play this when H&I is running the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where Q becomes human and makes a funny about Riker being much funnier without the beard! Not since the two or three eps when B.J. Hunnicut grew the cheesy moustache on MASH (that I'm sure all officers in the army were allowed to have in the 50's) has a joke about facial hair been so funny. Whew. I went a long way for that one. I need a beer beverage. I'll hold up my Yahtzee cup. I wonder if the plastic is PTFE free? If it's Bud, it may enhance the flavor.

Neeeeet. The pencil in this box must be vintage 1980s. It has an eraser topper on it that looks like it must have been end of school surplus doing duty as a Yahtzee card eraser so you can use these score cards over and over. Of course, we could have gotten one of those lamination deals and gone with those dry erase markers and reused the same cards forever, but that would be asking too much. That would also say there was a lot of HOT YAHTZEE ACTION taking place in my house when I was a kid. I do like the instruction book with the logo looking like it was written in Disneyworld. Not even the most obscure Disney character would be caught dead playing this. They smoked and drank but I wonder about that Goofy... I bet he could croon as well as Gomer Pyle in real life.

That's it. That's all. Oh yeah, we bought this pad of additional score cards in case we ever ran out. Discount Drug Mart saves you the run around. 1.69. F.U.  See, the retail price was 2.09 but the discounted drug store value price was 1.69. Suck A Deal! Value Priced! What the hell is that red thing in the corner of this picture? Coffee bean? Fruit snack? Leftover found game piece from some long forgotten game that I remade into one of my games? I promise, there are only a few more of these game entries to do before the finale. Hey, the Mr.T Air Freshener was a SWEET (if sweaty) pay-off for enduring my button box posts a few months ago right? The last one will be as STAR STUDDED as that Mr. T Junk Blog post. I have a bug game coming up and a plastic marker game , then the finale... Until then, "I've been through the desert on a horse with no name..."

-Ric