Yamb (five of a kind): what is it worth?
All five dice showing the same number. The rarest roll in the game and the highest single score on the sheet.
How many points is Yamb worth?
Yamb scores 5× + 50, so the most it can ever be worth is 80 points.
How likely is Yamb?
Yamb comes up on 0.08% of first rolls. If you spend the whole turn chasing it, keeping the dice that help and re-rolling the rest, you'll have it by the end of the turn 4.6% of the time.
What if you already have a start?
The chance of getting Yamb from each start with your two remaining rolls, keeping the best dice each time. Use this to help you learn when to chase.
How YoloYamb plays Yamb
YoloYamb is Yumbee's neural network. It taught itself Yamb over 200,000 games against itself. Here's what it learned, from 5,000 of its games.
YoloYamb makes Yamb in about half its Free columns (53.6%), where it can wait for five of a kind. In every other column it zeros it 95.2% of the time. So Free is your Yamb column. Anywhere else, don't chase it. Take it if it comes.
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