This is Planet Money from NPR.
Legend has it.
There was a Canadian couple in the 1950s who liked to play this game called Yacht.
They owned a yacht.
They play the game on their yacht.
But as far as I could tell, that is all the yacht involved in this game called Yacht.
Yes, Yacht was a...
dice game, you roll a bunch of dice, you try to make sets and pairs and whatnot.
And apparently friends of the Canadian yachters were like, this yacht game rules,
you should publish it, make some money, maybe buy another yacht.
Yeah, why not?
And so the unnamed Canadians sold the game idea to a game entrepreneur who then made the very wise decision to not sell the game as yacht.
He changed the name, of course, to.
Yahtzee!
Yahtzee!
Nobody's gonna buy and yell yahtzee!
Come on!
And we share this little tale
because a good title or a bad title will absolutely sink a really great game.
That was the very serious warning we got previously on Planet Money Makes a Board Game.