How to Score 880 in Yahtzee with Buddies Part 2

How to Score 880 in Yahtzee with Buddies

Perfect 880 Score

9/1/2016. Caution: You may be sent to the cheater's board. You've been warned.

Getting a score of 880 in a Premium or Daily Tournament takes time. About one or two hours and multiple devices are required to accomplish the 880 score.  This is part II in the post on how to get 880 (a perfect score or 13 yahtzees).  You can read part I here. Thank you for being so patient to those who wrote in to the blog and emailed me.

Some resort to more devices so they don't have to stop and clear the cache (android phones) or reload the app (iPhones).  Someone wrote in and said they had 12 devices!

How do you get 13 yahtzees and not just any 13 yahtzees in a row?  In order to be successful at getting this score, you'll need to score the first yahtzee worth 50 points and it can be any of the yahtzees.  It doesn't matter you get 50 points.  The outline for how to get the next yahtzees are outlined below.




1) 50 points any yahtzee to start off with

2) Go for the upper section dice 1 through 6.  Try to get a yahtzee of each of those.  You must get a yahtzee of each of them.  Doesn't matter in what order, just all of them.  Getting the yahtzees with the correct dice will yield 440 points.

3) You MUST get 3 additional yahtzees of 6s.  One for the three of a kind, One for the four of a kind, and one for Chance.  This alone is 180 points.

Multiple Devices for Getting 880

4) The next three yahtzees can be of anything.  You just need to get three yahtzees and score them in the Full House, Small Straight and Large Straight.  Try to get them in that order.  The reason is that if you can't get a yahtzee the ability to get 25, 30, 40 points will still be possible. The bottom section will also give you 440 points.  Combined with the upper section: 880 points!

5) If you have yahtzee with buddies on Facebook, you can use one turn as a life-saver.

6) Use your triple replay as a last resort meaning that you've used up all the devices and didn't get the yahtzee you needed.

For the devices: They must be different devices.  If you have some that are the same, they will all generate the same rolls! Example: If you have two iPhone 5s' then it won't work. (Thanks to the lady that allowed me to use her devices as an illustration) The method illustrated above also works on Dice with Buddies.

It costs 30, 40, or 100 bonus rolls to play the premium tournaments but the daily tournament is free.  The prizes for the premium tournament can go from 1,000 bonus rolls to 2,000 bonus rolls.  Most of the time the average is 1,000 or 1,800 bonus rolls.

Is this cheating?  The only way to get the platinum dice is to win a premium tournament three times.  This means getting 880.  I have not seen a day that the winner hasn't gotten the perfect score.  It would be nice if the people using these techniques would stick to the premium so that those with not very  many bonus rolls could stick to the daily free tournament.  Better yet, have Scopely fix it (several techinques are available to prevent) so that it is fair for everyone.

How to Get the Pink Diamond Custom Dice in Yahtzee with Buddies

For the next 24 hours, Scopely is having their Pink Diamond Tourney.  What is different in this tournament is that EVERYONE that enters the premium will be GIVEN these custom dice.  Well, not exactly given since it costs some bonus rolls (40 bonus rolls) to enter this premium tournament!

I want to get the black diamond custom dice but you have to win three premium tournaments in order to get them.  That seems to be a tough task.

Are you going to enter the Pink Diamond Tourney?  We'll see how many start rolling them in the next couple of days.

Here is what they look like:

Do you like them?

Tournaments in Yahtzee with Buddies

There are several different types of tournaments in Yahtzee with Buddies. Each has their own benefits that may appeal to you based on how many bonus rolls and how many players you will be competing again:  Here are the main tournaments

Fastplay Bronze: The cost to play a fastplay tournament is two (2) bonus rolls. Only 15 players are competing in the tournament. You are one of them but will be shuffled around depending on how long it takes you to move. This is why you see the "average score" to change after each turn you take. If you win, you get 13 bonus rolls and depending on the season 5 snowflakes.

Fasplay Silver: The entry fee is eight (8) bonus rolls. The win will get you 60 bonus rolls and 20 snowflakes.

Fastplay Gold: The final fastplay costs 15 bonus rolls. Winning this level gets 120 bonus rolls and 40 snowflakes.

*Note that you get a free scratcher after each tournament so that you get a chance to get more bonus rolls.  The top three finishers get a winner's prize.  Winning at least one time in any of the fastplay gets you a Fastplay winner icon based on what tournament you won.

The next type of tournament is the Daily Tournament is free (everyone and their mama) to enter one time.  You can enter more than once but then it costs an additional 20 bonus rolls.  Special offers are tied (sometimes) to winning a daily tournament. A custom dice may be offered (at this time, it was the snowman custom dice).  

The reward for winning is 100 - 200 bonus rolls and or XP.

There is the outright , winner's circle (top 10) and then the honorable mention (top 200).  The scores to get winners circle are very high (500+).  The winning score is usually 600+ and if something is offered as a prize other than bonus rolls (rare custom dice), then 700+.  Three or four yahtzees are required and many bonus rolls.

The grand daddy tournament is the premium tournament. This tournament offers as a prize between 1000 bonus to 1,800 bonus rolls and maybe a set of custom dice.  Price to enter: 30-100 bonus rolls. Beginners usually don't enter because they don't have enough bonus rolls to enter. There is usually a frenzy towards the end with high scores changing by the second.  All the motivated players playing their final scores hoping for that grand prize.

Each tournament lasts for 24 hours and ends about 8:45 p.m. pacific time.  The final move must be played within that time or whatever score you have will be your score for that tournament.  The results are final in about 10 minutes after it closes.  Once closed, an award waiting period is next.  About an hour before you can actually claim your prize if any.

How do you win a tournament in yahtzee with buddies?