Each week featured a different hostess serving as "dice girl", including Kelly Grant, Denise DiRenzo, and Teresa Ganzel.
Yahtzee was originally taped at Trump's Castle in Atlantic City, New Jersey, though later it moved to Showboat Hotel & Casino.
Winning a round gave the team captain a chance to roll five dice, as in regular Yahtzee.
If they were successful within the number of rolls earned, the team split the prize chosen at the beginning of the bonus round.
Just as they were about to leave, Atlantic City police placed Hovis and Bernstein under arrest and detained them in the lobby of the casino on suspicion of theft.
It had been alleged that the men had stolen several set pieces, including the giant dice, from the now-shuttered production.
On April 19, 1988, by which point the show had been dropped by most of the stations airing it, Bernstein and Hovis filed a defamation lawsuit in Atlantic County Superior Court, much to the bewilderment of Andrews, who accused the men of looking for "deep pockets".
This lawsuit, which followed a second suit against various entities involved in producing Yahtzee and led to a precipitous drop in affiliates, was filed against several defendants including the city, the state of New Jersey, and distributor ABR Entertainment.
Hovis in particular was displeased as many of the casino patrons who walked past him as he was detained recognized him due to his previous role on the TV comedy Hogan's Heroes.