How to keep score at Last Card

Whoever empties their hand first scores what is left in everybody else’s: a number card at its face, a skip, a reverse or a draw two twenty, and a wild fifty. Adding up a table of hands is slow with a game waiting, and this keeps the totals.

It needs no account and no signal. The score is kept on this phone, so it survives the screen going dark between deals, and the page opens again where you left it.

1. Write in everybody’s name in the order you sit, going the way the deal passes.
2. Tap Deals beside whoever deals first, or press Pick a dealer and let the phone choose.
3. Set the house rules your table plays, then press Start. The phone remembers the names and the rules for next time.

Any number from two to ten. Somebody who misses a round can be marked as sitting out.

Tap the crown beside whoever went out, then count each other hand and write it in.

The winner’s own hand is empty, so there is nothing to write for them.

The winner of the round scores every other hand added together. Nobody else scores.

The first to the target wins. With One round chosen, a single round decides it.

The arithmetic is the code the Last Card tables in this app score with, so the scorekeeper and the game always agree.

Play to

Three hundred is a game of an evening. Five hundred is the long game the printed rules ask for.

Share board makes a link and a QR code. Everybody who opens it watches the board change as you save each deal, with no account on either side. With no signal it gives a link that carries the board inside it instead, which shows the score as it stood when the link was made.

Send a picture of the board draws the standings and every deal as an image for the family group, with the address in the corner. It needs no signal.

If you have to leave before the game ends, Hand over scoring shows a second code. Whoever scans it keeps score on their own phone from then on.

Pick a dealer chooses who deals first, and from then on the scorekeeper says whose deal it is above every deal. Shuffle seats puts the names in a new order to sit in.

Both draw from the phone’s own random number generator, the one the dice roller uses, so every seat is equally likely.