Hand and Foot score sheet
Four rounds, each with its own block: books counted by type, red threes, the go-out bonus, card points down and whatever was stranded in the foot. Enter how many, not how much — put a two beside clean books and the sheet writes a thousand.
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Hand and Foot score sheet
Date ____________
| Score | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 | Player 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 — meld at least 50 | ||||||
| Clean books500 each | ||||||
| Dirty books300 each | ||||||
| Red threes100 each | ||||||
| Went out100 | ||||||
| Card points down | ||||||
| Left in handsubtracted | ||||||
| Round 1 total | ||||||
| Round 2 — meld at least 90 | ||||||
| Clean books500 each | ||||||
| Dirty books300 each | ||||||
| Red threes100 each | ||||||
| Went out100 | ||||||
| Card points down | ||||||
| Left in handsubtracted | ||||||
| Round 2 total | ||||||
| Round 3 — meld at least 120 | ||||||
| Clean books500 each | ||||||
| Dirty books300 each | ||||||
| Red threes100 each | ||||||
| Went out100 | ||||||
| Card points down | ||||||
| Left in handsubtracted | ||||||
| Round 3 total | ||||||
| Round 4 — meld at least 150 | ||||||
| Clean books500 each | ||||||
| Dirty books300 each | ||||||
| Red threes100 each | ||||||
| Went out100 | ||||||
| Card points down | ||||||
| Left in handsubtracted | ||||||
| Round 4 total | ||||||
| Total | ||||||
Four rounds with rising meld minimums; clean books pay 500 and dirty ones 300.
Price one round
Counts in, points out. Say how many books of each kind, whether you went out and what the cards came to, and the round total appears with the bonuses separated from the card points so it can be checked later.
A worked example
Two clean books, one dirty, two red threes, out first, 285 in melded card points and 60 stranded in the foot.
| What happened | Points |
|---|---|
| Book and red-three bonuses, plus going out | 1600 |
| Card points on the table | 285 |
| Cards still in hand | -60 |
| Total | 1825 |
Clean and dirty, five hundred and three
A book of seven made entirely of natural cards is worth five hundred. One that leans on wild cards is worth three hundred. Everything else about the round — the card values you laid down, the red threes, the bonus for being first out — sits on separate lines, because folding them together is how a round total becomes unauditable half an hour later.
Counting books rather than adding their bonuses is a small change that removes most of the arithmetic. Two clean and one dirty is three numbers to write and thirteen hundred to work out, and only one of those is worth a human's attention. The block totals appear as you go, and the four block totals feed the column at the bottom.
The minimum climbs, and the sheet says so
Rounds have rising entry requirements — fifty, ninety, a hundred and twenty, a hundred and fifty in the commonest arrangement — and each block on this pad is headed with its own figure. That heading is doing real work: the most frequent dispute in this game is whether a first meld was legal in the round it was played, and having the number printed on the row settles it.
The requirement counts the card values you put down, not the bonuses waiting behind them. Two wild cards and three eights do not reach ninety however promising the hand looks, and a partnership that lays down short has to take it all back. Keeping card points on their own line makes that check a glance rather than a recount.
What is left in the foot counts against you
When somebody goes out, everyone else totals the cards still in their hand and their untouched foot, and subtracts. It is the swing that decides most rounds: a partnership sitting on a wild card and a couple of aces can lose forty in a single line, and one that never got into its foot at all can lose two hundred.
The penalty line is entered as a positive figure and subtracted for you, which removes the classic transcription error of writing a negative number and then adding it. Going out first pays a hundred, and the tick beside it is there so the bonus is never quietly forgotten by the partnership that earned it.
Common questions
How many can play, and does the sheet handle partnerships?
Columns run from two to six, and a partnership simply uses one column between two people. Naming the column after the pair rather than a person is the usual approach, and the name box takes anything you type.
Are red threes always a hundred each?
That is the common value and what the sheet applies. Some tables count them only if the side has melded, and a few double them at four. Since they sit on their own counted line here, changing the arithmetic to suit your table means editing one number rather than the whole block.
Does the game have to be four rounds?
Four is the standard length and what is printed. Longer sessions usually run a fifth or sixth round with the minimum climbing again; the simplest way to record that here is a second printed page, with the two column totals added at the end.
What counts as a dirty book exactly?
A completed set of seven that includes at least one wild card. The distinction is only about wilds, not about how the cards were acquired, and the three-hundred figure applies however many wilds are in there.
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