Party scoreboard

How to use the scoreboard

1. Tap Add team and type a name. Add as many teams or players as you need.
2. Tap +1, +5 or −1 beside a team to change its score.
3. The leader is marked with a crown. Reset scores sets everyone to zero and keeps the names; Clear all removes the teams.

The board is saved in this browser, so an accidental refresh or a locked phone does not lose the scores. Nothing is sent to us.

Ways to score a party

• Points per game. The simplest: 3 points to the winning team of each game, 2 to the second, 1 to the third. With two teams, 2 for a win and 1 each for a draw.
• Bonus points for cheering, for tidying up after a game, for helping a younger player. Children work astonishingly hard for a bonus point.
• Running totals for games that produce numbers, such as beans moved or coins in the tumbler: add each player's number to the team.
• Golden game. Announce that the last game is worth double. It keeps the trailing team in the party until the end.

Keeping it friendly

• Put the board where teams can see it, or read the scores aloud after each game.
• Let a neutral person keep it: an elder, or a child who prefers not to play.
• The scorer's decision is final.
• If one team is running away with it, award a few generous bonus points to the others, or reshuffle the teams at half-time.
• For very young children, do not keep score at all. Use the board to count how many games "we" have finished together.

Team names

Let each team choose its name in the first two minutes; it gives them something to do while late guests arrive and makes them a team. Colours, animals, sweets (Team Jalebi against Team Laddu), film titles and the wings of the housing society all work.

After the party

Take a screenshot of the final board for the family group. For a regular gathering, keep the same team names from one meeting to the next and let the scores build into a league.

Need a clock as well? Use the party timer. Need to split people into teams? The chit maker does it at random.