Spooneye! The Card Game

The Standard Game

Endgame and Scoring

The best way to keep track of the two scores is to draw a horizontal line across the middle of the paper. The score written below the line is just called the score; the score written above the line is known as the larder. An easy way to total this up is to follow this process:

1. Chuck all the hearts.

2. Pair up clubs and spades (which cancel each other out), until you are left with only one or the other.

3. Count the diamonds, double that number, and then either subtract the remaining clubs or add the remaining spades to the result.

Clubs are known as scurvy.

The ways in which the Standard Game can end in are identical to those in the Basic Game. The method of counting up the score is identical as well, except that, in the Standard Game, cards flipped face-up are worth 2 points each. Note that all opponent's leftover masts captured at the end of the game are placed face-down.

However, in the Standard Game, each player also recieves a secondary score. After counting their regular score, each player then turns all of the cards in their booty pile face-up and counts them again, this time according to the following chart:

Each 2 points

Each 1 point

Each 0 points

Each -1 point

This total is written above the line, and is kept completely separate from the regular score until the end of the match.

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