Printable Yatzy Score Sheet: Free A4 PDF, Four Rule Sets

2026-10-30

Printable Yatzy score sheet: pick the PDF for the rule set you play — Classic (13 boxes), Scandinavian (15), Yacht (12) or Generala (11) — and print one A4 page with six player columns, every box named with a one-line rule, and the Upper total, Bonus, Lower total and Total rows already laid out.

Download the Yatzy score sheet (free PDF)

Each file is one A4 portrait page with a Players line on top. Pick the sheet that matches your table's rules; if nobody is sure, Classic is the default sheet online.

📄 Classic Yatzy score sheet (PDF, 13 boxes) — the 13-box sheet, with a separate row for +100 extra-Yatzy bonuses.

📄 Scandinavian Yatzy score sheet (PDF, 15 boxes) — adds One Pair and Two Pairs, with straights as exact runs.

📄 Yacht score sheet (PDF, 12 boxes) — a Choice box instead of Chance, no Three of a Kind box.

📄 Generala score sheet (PDF, 11 boxes) — no upper bonus, no Chance, ends on Doble Generala.

How to fill in the sheet, turn by turn

Write each player's name on the Players line, one column per player, up to six. Everything below happens inside your own column.

1. Roll five dice, up to three times per turn. On the second and third roll you set aside the dice you want to keep and re-roll the rest.
2. You may stop after any roll. Then you must write the dice into exactly one open box of your column — there is no pass.
3. If nothing fits, scratch a box: write 0 in the one you can best afford to lose.
4. The upper boxes (Ones to Sixes) count only the dice showing that face: three Fours is 12.
5. The match ends when every box in every column is full — 13 turns each on Classic, 15 on Scandinavian, 12 on Yacht, 11 on Generala. Highest total wins; online, equal top totals share the win, so agree a tie rule on paper before you start.

Totals and the bonus check

When the upper section is full, add Ones through Sixes and write the sum in Upper total. If it is 63 or more, write the bonus: +35 on Classic and Yacht, +50 on Scandinavian. Generala has no upper bonus, so its sheet has no Bonus row. 63 is exactly three of every face (3 × 21), so a column of three Ones, three Twos and so on lands on the line.

Lower total is every lower box plus, on Classic, any +100 Yatzy bonuses; Total is Upper total + Bonus + Lower total. The Yatzy bonus row sits above Lower total, so count it once. The bonus is not a given: in 800 simulated Classic games per level our steady (medium) bot reached 63 in about 16% and the sharp (hard) bot in about 43% — see the strategy guide for chasing it.

A real Classic column, filled in

One finished column from a real bot match run on the game's engine on 30 October 2026. It is not a perfect game — Four of a Kind and Small Straight were scratched — which makes it a fair model of a normal column.

No second Yatzy came, so the Yatzy bonus row stays empty. For scale, perfect play on this Classic rule set averages about 255 points with a spread of nearly 60 (T. Verhoeff, TU Eindhoven), so 268 is a good game, not an outlier.

Scorekeeping mistakes that change the winner

• Paying the bonus at 62. The line is 63. An upper total of 62 earns nothing.
• Paying +100 after a scratched Yatzy. On Classic the +100 is paid only if the Yatzy box already holds 50; if you wrote 0 there, a later five-alike earns no bonus. When it does pay, the joker is forced: the roll goes into its own upper box if open (five Fours = 20 in Fours), else into any open lower box at its full value, and only when every lower box is full too, into an open upper box for 0.
• Mixing up "all dice" and "those dice". Classic Three and Four of a Kind pay the total of all five dice; Scandinavian pays only the matching dice (three 5s = 15); Yacht Four of a Kind, and the Full House on Scandinavian and Yacht, pay all five dice (Classic Full House is a flat 25).
• Calling five alike a Full House. It scores 0 there on every sheet; the only way in is the Classic joker.
• Scoring the wrong straight. Classic and Yacht Small Straight is any four in a row. The Scandinavian one is exactly 1-2-3-4-5 for 15, and 2-3-4-5-6 is worth 0 in that box. On Generala, Escalera also accepts the ace-high 3-4-5-6-1.
• Misreading the Generala bonus. The first-roll +5 applies to Escalera, Full and Póker only (25, 35, 45), never to the Generala box. Doble Generala (100) needs the Generala box to hold 50. Some tables let a first-roll Generala win outright; the online game does not, so settle that house rule first. Full sheets: Generala rules, Yacht rules.

Printing tips

The PDFs are A4 portrait, one page, margins built in. On US Letter paper choose "fit to page" in the print dialog so the bottom Total row is not cut off. Print one sheet per match: it holds up to six players, and every box is written once, so a rematch needs a fresh page.

Or let the screen keep score

No dice or no printer? The online game adds for you. After each roll every open box shows in green what the dice would score there, the Bonus row counts your upper section toward 63. The host picks which of the four sheets the table plays, and all four are free.

So what do you do with this: print the sheet that matches your rule set, write the names on the Players line, and end every turn with exactly one number, or a 0, in one box. Check the bonus at 63, never 62, and settle the extra-Yatzy rule before the first roll. To plan turns, read the Yatzy rules and the odds; to skip the paper, play Yatzy online.

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