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means A dice game in which players roll five dice up to three times per turn trying to make scoring combinations, the highest being five matching dice that gives the game its name.

from A trademarked invented name, not a word with deep roots. The popular story goes that a Canadian couple played a version aboard their yacht and called it 'the Yacht Game'; an entrepreneur, Edwin Lowe, bought the rights and marketed it as 'Yahtzee' in the mid-20th century. So the name is essentially a stylized spin on 'yacht' (itself from Dutch 'jacht,' a hunting ship), dressed up to look snappy on a box.