A shuffleboard is a great addition to a home game room and you can play teams so everyone can get in on the fun.
Tabletop games consist of a series of frames, oftentimes in a best-of-three or best-of-five format. The length of each part of the series will depend on if you are playing singles or doubles.
Here is a quick tutorial on keeping score in a game of shuffleboard:
The scoring area is divided in to three sections:
· Closest to the edge (3 points)
· Short Middle section (2 points)
· Long Middle section (1 point)
A puck hanging over the edge of the table is worth 4 points.
After all the pucks have been shot by taking alternating turns, the points are added up. First check to see which player/team has a puck closest to the edge. Points are awarded for each puck that has gone farther than the opponents best shot. For example, if a blue puck is closest to the edge and sitting in the three-point section and a red puck is in the two-point section, the blue player will earn three points for the round and the red player will earn none.
In a singles match, the first player to earn 11 points wins the frame. A doubles team must earn 21 points to win the frame.
In addition, many shuffleboards use abacus scorers like the one pictured above. To use these there are 2 different color chips on the scorer, 2 in one color, 9 in another. The 9 chips in one color represent points ending in 1-9 while the 2 chips in another color represent multiples of 10. You start with all the chips in the middle of the scorer. As points 1-9 are scored you move in this case the black chips to the right one at a time, one chip for each point. When you get to ten you move the black chips back to the center and slide one red chip to the left representing 10 points. So a score of 18 would have 1 red chip slid to the left, 8 black chips slid to the right and the rest in the middle.
For more information on How to Score a Game of Shuffleboard, check out our video how-to:
