But despite the murkiness surrounding the mother game, it has spawned an array of derivatives whose histories can be clearly traced. It was either invented by a wealthy couple on a worldwide yacht trip, dreamt-up by the board game executive who created the game Bingo, or has been played for thousands of years in central Asia.
The original source of the game now known as Yahtzee is hard to pin down with certainty, but its various origin stories are fantastic.
