Five Dice

Five Dice is Tim Bobo's free Yahtzee-style dice game from Image Works Plus, originally released in the mid-1990s and updated to v2.2 to address sound and color glitches. Macintosh Garden's one-line summary is brutally honest: "A competent Yahtzee game with abusive colors and sound effects."

How it plays

The author's own pitch in the Info-Mac upload: "This is a great color rich and sound rich yahtzee type game. You can play single, double, or triple five dice with 1 - 3 players." Standard Yahtzee scoring is the spine; the variant modes and multi-player support are the wrinkles Bobo added on top of the formula.

Version 2.2 changes

The BinHex header is short and to the point: "2.2 Fixes rare sound and color problems." No new modes, no new scoring - just a maintenance pass on the audio and palette code that had been giving earlier builds trouble on certain Macs.

Distribution

Five Dice is freeware, with the registration form pointing players at the author's other Image Works Plus shareware. Mailing address on the upload is Tim Bobo, 8124 Cross, N. Richland Hills, TX 76180; comments and bug reports went to tim.bobo@chrysalis.org. Macintosh Garden hosts the disk image as Five_Dice.sit (654 KB), classifies it as 68k, and lists compatibility from System 6.x through Mac OS 8.1.

Provenance

Distributed through Info-Mac as five-dice-22.hqx. The MG mirror's single screenshot, the BinHex author description, and the v2.2 changelog line are the canonical sources; there is no MobyGames record for this title.