Search Results for "scoring"

...The goal is to score the maximum number of points by throwing five dice to obtain certain combinations. Player can roll up to three times per turn, either all dice or selected dice. The game consists of eighteen rounds. After each round, player can choose which scoring category to use, but you cannot choose the same category twice. Some categories are fixed, while others depend on the value of the dice.

...The advent of the wired world and - especially - the recent rise in popularity of social networking between connected devices provides an opportunity for friendly matches within any sort of group. Generally, like-minded groups of people will get together and participate in one-on-one matches or regularly organized tournaments. Social media already has scoring and ranking programs, but they tend to be themed for certain sports, activities, and interests. Many of those have long-standing out-moded ranking and ratings systems in place. TARStack will change this trend by using a standard ranking formula: The “K-simplified” chess ranking formula (provisional USCF version). This will ensure friendly competition can remain friendly without large discrepancies in the results between even matches with a clear victor.

Research project to develop an accurate game scorer for Go games (using Japanese scoring).

DiceRoller is a port of the popular game, Yahtzee, to the PC. DiceRoller is written in Java, and requires the latest version of Java (or one with Swing) to run. DiceRoller has an intuitive interface, dynamic scoring, themeable dice, and more...

...The user can key in theoretical board layouts and then have the computer calculate the next best move. The computer knows 175,000 words and can calculate in seconds the highest scoring placement.