To be clear once more: I would say that real life DOES follow the odds in the long run. Justanotherjo wrote: ↑ 22 February 2022, 20:27 To be clear, I don't say that your real-life experience of very few Yahtzees is impossible, I just say that if it's true, it means you had a lot of bad luck. Like you would need to systematically roll the dice in a way that avoids pairs, triples, quadrupels. While your statement is in general not incorrect, there can be of course some weird way of flipping a coin that biases results slightly away from pure chance, it's very hard to imagine how this could appear in dice rolling for a Yahtzee. In a computer simulation, these real world variables do not exist in a die roll, so the results will be much closer to statistical probability. How you hold them when you throw them, what position the pips were in when you threw, how hard you throw them, what they bounced off of all affect the results. When rolling dice in the real world, it is not an even die roll every time. If you flip a coin the odds are 50% you will get heads, yet if you flip a coin 100x, you'll see that the results are not as close to 50% as you might think. While the odds are 1/21, real life doesn't follow the odds. In practice, it may take longer as an initial pair may be discarded to roll for something else, such as a straight.' To put this into perspective, since 1/21 is approximately 4.74 percent, by chance alone a player should expect a Yahtzee once every 21 turns. This means that the probability of obtaining a Yahtzee in a given turn is approximately 4.74 percent. Since each of these are mutually exclusive, we add the probabilities together. 'The probability of a Yahtzee in one roll is 0.08 percent, the probability of a Yahtzee in two rolls is 1.23 percent and the probability of a Yahtzee in three rolls is 3.43 percent.

Probably you lean to heavily towards straights or something else.

And you seem to have had extraordinary bad luck in your real life or you played with screwed dice. If you roll a Yahtzee only every 8 or 9 games, you are actually off in a way that you roll too few Yahtzees.

Rules of what are the odds game