Yahtzee: Still relevant after 50 years

Our new favorite game is Yahtzee, which we acquired from my Grandma. It's a great game to teach math skills, as well as strategic thinking.

After wondering what the word Yahtzee means, I looked it up on Wikipedia. It came out in 1956, based on a dice game a couple used to play on their Yacht. The date on our game is 1959.

And it definitely looks like something from the 1950s: This is the picture of the original Yahtzee game on Wikipedia:
We have the original score pads, dice and box. And for those of you who played endless rounds of it at 1319 John Street while eating chocolate chip cookies that were stored in a Pringles can in the freezer, you know exactly whose game I'm referring to. This game, plus Uno, Mastermind and Scrabble, always remind me of Winfield summers.

An interesting addition I have is a sheet of *typed* rules. Yes, typed...like on a manual typewriter.

Only a marketing person would be interested in the development of the game's tagline. The original tagline was "The game that makes you think while having fun." Between 1956 and 1961 the tag line was changed to "The fun game that makes thinking fun."