[m1cha]

Can someone please tell me how the scoring works at Bingo Race?

I realized that I get 100 points minus 20 for each cross missing in my best line if I don't finish a line, so far so good.

But if I do finish a line, I get some multiple of 100 points. How does this multiple compute? I have got up to 400 points occasionally, 500 once, and very recently 900, so I started wondering about the possible high score. Does the score depend on the number of crosses? On time? On rank? In the last two cases I had only 5 crosses on the sheet.

[diana_eva]

m1cha, on 2015-June-23, 19:51, said:

Can someone please tell me how the scoring works at Bingo Race?

I realized that I get 100 points minus 20 for each cross missing in my best line if I don't finish a line, so far so good.

But if I do finish a line, I get some multiple of 100 points. How does this multiple compute? I have got up to 400 points occasionally, 500 once, and very recently 900, so I started wondering about the possible high score. Does the score depend on the number of crosses? On time? On rank? In the last two cases I had only 5 crosses on the sheet.

You mean the score showing in your Recent Hands, after the tourney is completed?

[m1cha]

diana_eva, on 2015-June-24, 01:23, said:

You mean the score showing in your Recent Hands, after the tourney is completed?

Thanks, diana_eva.

Right. Where with other tournaments the total percentage or total IMPs are shown.

Say, when I finish in the last minute with a low rank and the Bingo card half-full, I get a score of 100. If I am faster, I get 200, 300, or 400, with decreasing frequency. 2 or 3 weeks ago I finished with just 5 crosses on the card, all in one line, probably first in rank, and got a score of 500. So I thought that was the highest score one might get. Then yesterday I ended up with a score of 900! So I got curious how the score computes and what is the theoretical limit.

[barmar]

You get 20 points for each letter of BINGO that you achieve. So 60 means you got BIN, and 100 or more means you made BINGO (filling in an entire row, column, or diagonal).

If there are multiple players that achieve BINGO, you get an extra 100 points for each of them that you were faster than. So if there are 3 players who make BINGO, the first one gets 300 points, the second gets 200 points, and the last one gets 100 points.

[m1cha]

I see. So with 10 participants the highest possible score is 1000, but there is no point at trying to reach it because it depends on what other players are doing. Yet in this 900 tournament I might as well have got 1000 - if some mean, malicious sock hadn't resigned early. Watch out, when I get at you ... !

Thanks, Barry!

[barmar]

These points aren't counted anywhere, they're just used to keep track of the ranks of all the BINGO winners. So there's no point in worrying about whether you get 1000 or 900.

[m1cha]

barmar, on 2015-June-25, 09:55, said:

These points aren't counted anywhere, they're just used to keep track of the ranks of all the BINGO winners. So there's no point in worrying about whether you get 1000 or 900.

Yes but I guess most people are trying to beat high scores for their own personal satisfaction and not to get some document for impressing their grand children. In this sense there can be a difference between 900 or 1000 but of course it's nothing to worry about. I'm just having fun. And I was really curious why I got these 900.