They lead to foul play.
Posted on 06/25/2007 8:15:05 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
TAMPA, Fla. -- A dispute over a game of Yahtzee ended in a fatal stabbing, police said.
Mark Kelvin Allen, 49, was playing the dice game with 47-year-old Edith Elliot at her home in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood on Saturday night, an arrest report said.
They began to argue and Elliott went into a bedroom with her 49-year-old boyfriend.
Allen kicked in the door, scuffled with the boyfriend and then stabbed him twice, police said. The man, whose name is not being released until his relatives can be notified, later died at a hospital.
Allen was charged with second-degree murder and was being held without bond Monday, according to jail records.
Jail records did not list a lawyer for him.
Drinking and Yahtzee don’t mix.
Hey! Yahtzee can get Rough!
Did the boyfriend scream that “he was invisible”?
I wonder what the word was.
They probably tried to make one up to get rid of their Z.
har!
White Trash or Black Stoop-dwellers?
Yahtzee isn’t words, it’s a dice game.
Time to regulate Yahtzee.
we need to introduce new legislation
That would be Scrabble. A much less violent game.
They lead to foul play.
Someone should sue the manufacturer.
Ping!
Mensa? Those folks take that stuff seriously.
Older mobile homes have flimsy doors.
My sister moved to Fla. a few years ago and everytime I talk to her she comments on how many murders go on there daily.I don’t know if it’s Florida’s major pass time or just the heat ???
How long before some enterprising country musician writes a song about this?
This why Drunk Yahtzee should be outlawed. Naked Yahtzee rarely ends in tragedy.
Yahtzee is a family tradition in my house. One time there was a dispute over whether you can fill in 40 for ‘large straight’ if you roll a ‘Yahtzee’ after you’ve already crossed off ‘Yahtzee’ and you have the top filled in. (You can.) It never evolved into a knife fight, however.
I spent two three-years tours of duty in the Sunshine State. It attracts the Flotsam and Jetsam of the Americas. I’ve never seen so many dope peddlers, sex offenders, and just plain weird folk in my life.
Allen then yelled, Yahtzee!!!
-PJ
Unless your opponent continually claims that xray or xe are legit.
From where did this story roll in, a double wide passion pit? Edith must have been just to die for...
Not surprising. This is what happens when anyone can just walk in off the street and buy dice. You don’t even have to have a permit to play Yatzee.
Isn’t it time for common sense dice laws?
I like the game, too. Never had to slice anyone up though.
That’s fate for ya.
It’s the dumbassedness of stupidity.
well that depends on who is naked
When Yahtzee is outlawed, only outlaws will scream "Yahtzee!".
Yeah! Those 6-sided boosterds!
Bad Gal! You should be ashamed!
LoL.
Not just a country song, but the best country-western song ever written....
"I was drunk the day my momma rolled a yahtzee!,
......
That has the same melody as “Grandma got run over by a reindeer.”
“I was drunk the day my momma rolled a yahtzee!,
I told her ‘momma! you’r on your fourth roll!’
She said ‘who are you? the bone-thrower nazi?’
That’s when her passion a-started to boil....”
She squared with me, and I knew it was comin’!
I ducked into my room, that yahtzee night!
Those hinges on that door sure are nothin’!
Now I’m starin’ down a Geunsue knife!.....”
It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.
Don’t you mean a Full House ? A Yahtzee could be construed as two-of-a-kind plus three-of-a-kind, but I don’t see how it could be construed as a Large Straight, which is one thru five or two thru six.
The Joker rule allows 5-of-a-kind to be scored in any section of the bottom provided that both Yahtzee and the top-section square corresponding to the rolled number have both filled in. I thought the Joker option only applied when Yahtzee was filled in with 50, though--not when it's defaulted with zero.
I rather liked a Macintosh version which would allow 5-of-a-kind to be filled in any top-section square if the one corresponding to the roll was already filled (e.g. if I've filled in fives for 15, and then later roll 5 fives, then if I haven't scored aces (1's) yet I could score the roll there for 25 points. A very nice ability. The option was available whether or not Yahtzee was filled in, and could create some interesting strategic twists.
Ha! That's exactly what our dispute was!
You can also use subsequent Yahtzee's as jokers in the lower scores section, provided the following criteria have been satisfied:
1. You have scored a zero or 50 in the Yahtzee category.
2. You have filled the corresponding category in the upper scores section.
If this is the case, you can use the Yahtzee as a joker to fill in any lower scores category. You score the category as normal. Thus for the Small Straight, Large Straight, and Full House categories, you would score 30, 40, and 25 points respectively. For the 3 of a Kind, 4 of a Kind, and Chance categories, you would score the total of the die face.
See post #45.
Regards,
LH
I lifted ol' Blue up inter the truck
An' I turned that radio on
An' I drove to her trailer jist to try my luck
An' I parked it right up on her lawn
Nekkid Yahtzee, roll them dice
Pour a little Everclear over some ice
Don't you tell me that the game ain't nice
Jest shut up and roll
It's country soul
Now don't make me tell you twice
Well ol Blue was a howlin' and the Smokey slowed
And the trooper walked up and he said
"Son, you cain't toss beer cans on the side of the road,
"Yer supposed to hit the truck bed."
"Well, I cain't do that," I sez to the man
"There's a hound dawg a-ridin' back thar,
"And there's nuthin' but chaw in one o' them cans
"And they all look the same from up hyar."
Nekkid Yahtzee, roll them dice
Pour a little Everclear over some ice
Don't you tell me that the game ain't nice
Jest shut up and roll
It's country soul
Now don't make me tell you twice
Well I wuz nekkid right thar but I plumb fergot
And I stood up to speak my mind,
I sez "Thanks a lot, these dice is hot
"And I'm comin' from behind."
"I'm wearin' skin, but I'm about to win,
"I only need one pair!"
And the trooper grinned and gave the cuffs a spin,
"Son, I guess you got a point there."
Nekkid Yahtzee, roll them dice
Pour a little Everclear over some ice
Don't you tell me that the game ain't nice
Jest shut up and roll
It's country soul
Now don't make me tell you twice
Well the judge heard my story and the bailiff took my cash
And they gave me this nice orange vest
Thirty days on the highway jest a pickin' up trash
And I only got one request
If you see Linda Lou all dressed in black
And the wind whippin' through her hair
Jest keep on drivin' and don't look back
She'll throw the dice down and you'll be the clown
You'll see your name writ all over town
And oh, the word will git around,
"That Billy, he don't got a pair."
Nekkid Yahtzee, roll them dice
Pour a little Everclear over some ice
Don't you tell me that the game ain't nice
Jest shut up and roll
It's country soul
Now don't make me tell you twice.
Yee. Hah. :-)
For years, my wife and I in the late 70s , kept a little newspaper account on our bulletin board, which told the story of a killing of one brother by another over a pork chop that one took from the other’s plate, after he ate his own. Another pathetic Darwin Award entry. The last line was, from the mouth of the brother who pulled the trigger “I really wanted that pork chop”.
Lesson learned, never play Yahtzee if your opponent is known by 3 names. At least is middle name is not Wayne.
“Yahtzee isn’t words, it’s a dice game.”
No wonder I never won.
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