Yahtzee

Designed for the Yahoo! Widget Engine, Yahtzee is a small widget that allows you to play a virtual game of Yahtzee directly on your desktop. It does not integrate many features and addresses all types of users, even those with little or no experience in software apps.

The interface of the application is clean and pretty intuitive. Thanks to the helpful hints displayed on the top of the screen, you can immediately find out what steps you need to take, in order to advance in the game.

Five dices are shown on the lower part of the frame and you can hold or release them when making a roll, as well as select which ones you want to add to the sheet of results; there are two sheets available - a list of possible outcomes for the current hand, along with the final results (3 of a kind, chance, bonus, grand total).

Unfortunately, Yahtzee does not integrate any configuration options of its own. But, thanks to the default settings provided by the Yahoo! Widget Engine, you can open the Widget Preferences area to make the window stay on top or below all the other frames, ignore mouse events and prevent dragging. Plus, you can adjust its opacity level between 20% and 100%.

The small app is not a concern to the computer's resources consumption, since Yahtzee is low-demanding when it comes to the CPU and system memory. It has a good response time and instantly rolls the dices, without causing the operating system to hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. This is a nifty little application for playing a quick game of Yahtzee on the desktop.