Skip-Bo
Track Skip-Bo’s optional 500-point game. Record the winner’s 25-point bonus plus five points per remaining opponent stock card.
Mattel point-game option · Highest total wins
Start scoring Skip-Bo
How to score Skip-Bo
- Choose the optional point-game variant and play until a player empties their stock pile.
- Count all cards left in the other players’ stock piles.
- Award the round winner 25 plus 5 per remaining stock card; record zero for everyone else.
- The highest total wins when a completed round brings a player to 500 or more.
What this scorekeeper records
The scorekeeper adds the hand values you enter; enter the already calculated round award. The scorekeeper does not count stock piles or choose the round winner.
Enter the already calculated round award. The scorekeeper does not count stock piles or choose the round winner.
Game end: After a complete hand, play to 500 points. Highest total wins.
Scoring example
With 12 cards left in opponents’ stock piles, the round winner scores 25 + (5 × 12) = 85 points.
Variant notes
- This optional point game awards the round winner 25 points plus 5 for each card remaining in opponents’ stock piles; first to 500 wins.
- You can also play the basic race to empty a stock pile without cumulative points. This preset is for the optional cumulative point game.
- Enter the round points manually after counting stock cards. Other players enter zero; no card stacks are tracked.
Use each linked source for its named variant. House rules and editions can differ.
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