Here’s how Jeff explained the scoring procedure: Remember how many points are attributed to each rung on the ladder. After each person has thrown his golf ball-on-a-rope three times, add up your team’s points. If your team’s score is higher than the other team’s score you subtract the other team’s points from your points, and presto! You have your points for that round. Add those points to the points you have from the previous round and you have the total score.
I tried to work within this crazy, engineer-driven way to score for about, oh, four second. Then I just said what everyone else was thinking: “Okay, that is a stupid way to score this game!"
Why should I lose the points I earned just because the other team can’t manage their ball and rope?! If I got that contraption around the ladder at all I deserve some points. Why can’t I count all my points? And why should my team be penalized just because your team didn't score as many points as my team? Are you kidding me?
Michael and I were on a team against Jeff and Amy. Michael and I won, but I don’t have a clue how many points we scored, number one because Jeff kept taking away our points and number two, because I enlisted Sean’s help to score for us because, as I said before, that was a stupid way to keep score.
I guess what I’m really saying is this: Look, if you’re going to invite me to dinner, don’t make me do math. And if you do, at least provide pen and paper so I can try to keep up.
My dad made this game for us and we call it goofy golf. However, we keep all of our points. :)
ReplyDeleteIn some game, maybe scrabble, you add your opponents remaining points to your total if you're the firts to go out. It's sort of a bonus for being the first to go out.
ReplyDeleteSubtracting is weird. Leave it to the engineer dads. No mom subtracts hard-earned points!! :-)
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Jill