Crag is a dice game played with three dice, and plays somewhat similarly to the commercial game of Yahtzee.
Like Yahtzee (and Yacht), the object is to fill in each category on the score sheet and make the highest score. Differences in gameplay include:
- Crag uses three dice (rather than five).
- You only get two rolls per turn (rather than three).
- There are 13 categories:
- 1's = Total of all 1's
- 2's = Total of all 2's
- 3's = Total of all 3's
- 4's = Total of all 4's
- 5's = Total of all 5's
- 6's = Total of all 6's
- Low Straight (1-2-3) = 20 points
- High Straight (4-5-6) = 20 points
- Odd Straight (1-3-5) = 20 points
- Even Straight (2-4-6) = 20 points
- Three of a Kind = 25 points
- Thirteen (2-5-6 or 3-4-6) = 26 points
- Crag (1-6-6 or 3-5-5 or 5-4-4) = 50 points
- There is no "Chance" category.
- There is no bonus scoring.
The player with the highest score after filling all 13 categories is the winner!
The web site dice-play has a nice description of the rules, as well as an excellent score sheet you can print out.
See also: Other Dice Game Rules
