Welcome to Yahtzee Calculator!

Yahtzee Calculator is a program written by Dylan McClain that calculates the probabilities of desired outcomes in the game of Yahtzee.

For those unfamiliar, Yahtzee is a dice game originally made by the Milton Bradley company. It consists of five dice and a scoresheet, and players take turns rolling the dice, keeping whichever dice they want and rerolling the rest, until the player has completed three rolls or chooses to stop. The goal is to collect an array of different outcomes, such as 'four of a kind', 'large straight', or 'Yahtzee', which is defined as all five dice of the same number.

A breakdown of the rules can be found here.

The Yahtzee Calculator consists of four files: this readme, a file containing the app itself (yahtzee.rb), a file containing some basic Rspec tests (yahtzee_spec.rb), and a dependency containing all of the probability calculations (yahtzee-calculations.rb).

The app is written in ruby 2.5.1 If you have ruby installed locally, you can run the yahtzee calculator locally by forking and cloning the repository, navigating to the directory containing the files and running

ruby yahtzee.rb

Happy rolling!