How to Use the Hide & Seek Scoreboard

Welcome! This is your guide to running a game of Hide & Seek and keeping score. No technical knowledge needed - if you can click buttons, you can run the whole thing.

The idea in one minute

• Each game is played in rounds.
• In every round, some players are Seekers (they do the hunting) and the rest are Hiders (they try to stay hidden the longest).
• Players earn points for how they do, and the scoreboard keeps a running total for everyone across all the rounds you play.

There are three separate scoreboards, so you can see who's best at each thing:

• Seeker - points for catching people.
• Hider - points for surviving as a hider.
• Bonus - extra rewards and penalties.

Your scores are saved automatically on this device, so you can close the page and come back later without losing anything.

The main screen

When you open the app you'll see:

• Players - where you add everyone who's playing.
• Three scoreboards - Seeker, Hider, and Bonus totals, always sorted best-to-worst.
• Start New Round - begins a new round.
• Reset Everything - erases all players and scores to start fresh.

Step 1: Add your players

1. Type a player's name in the box under Players.
2. Click Add (or press Enter).
3. Repeat for everyone playing.

Tips:

• Every name must be different.
• To remove someone, click the ✕ next to their name.
• You can hide or show the player list by clicking the Players heading.
• You need at least 2 players before you can start a round.

Step 2: Play a round

Click Start New Round. The app walks you through five simple steps, shown along the top: Seekers → Catches → Bonus → Placement → Results. You can always go Back a step if you make a mistake.

1. Choose the seekers

• Tick the box next to everyone who is seeking this round.
• Everyone you _don't_ tick automatically becomes a hider.
• Click Next: Catches when you're ready. (You need at least one seeker and one hider.)

2. Record the catches

This is where you note who caught whom, in the order it happened.

To record a catch:

1. Click a seeker's name (it turns red to show it's selected).
2. Click the hider that seeker caught.

Good to know:

• Each seeker shows a little number counting how many people they've caught.
• The first hider caught ends up in last place - so record catches in the real order they happened.
• Made a mistake? Click a caught hider again to release them, or click the ✕ next to a line in the catch list.
• Survivors (hiders nobody has caught yet) are listed at the bottom.

Click Next: Bonus to continue.

3. Award bonuses and penalties

• Top 3 hiders: click up to three hiders to put them on the podium - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place get extra bonus points. Click a hider again (or click their podium spot) to remove them.
• Penalties: click any player to give them a penalty (for breaking a rule, for example). Click again to add more. Right-click a player to take a penalty away.

Click Next: Placement to continue.

4. Confirm the finishing order

• The app suggests the hider finishing order for you: whoever survived longest is 1st.
• If the order isn't quite right, use the ↑ and ↓ arrows to move people up or down.
• Each position shows how many points it's worth.
• When it looks right, click Confirm & Score Round.

5. See the results

You'll get a summary of everything that happened this round - who earned what, plus any bonuses and penalties. Click Back to Scoreboard and all the totals are updated.

That's one round! Click Start New Round whenever you're ready to go again.

How points are earned

Seekers (Seeker scoreboard)

• 10 points for every hider they catch.
• A big +30 bonus if a single seeker catches more than 5 people in one round.

Hiders (Hider scoreboard)

Points depend on where you finish - the longer you survive, the more you get:

• Finishing beyond 11th place is worth 0 points.
• Last place loses 4 points - but only if at least one hider was caught that round.

Bonus scoreboard

• Top 3 hiders: 1st place +15, 2nd +10, 3rd +5.
• Penalties: −20 points each (they can stack).

The "last place" boost

Whoever comes last in a round gets a reward for the _next_ round: all the Seeker and Hider points they earn are doubled. You'll see a ⚡ note at the top of the round and an x2 buff tag next to their name while it's active. It lasts one round only.

Handy tips

• Record catches in the real order they happen - it makes the finishing order come out right automatically.
• If nobody gets caught in a round, no one loses points for last place, and no one gets the double-points boost next round.
• Going Back through the steps is safe; your choices are kept.
• Reset Everything cannot be undone, so only use it when you truly want a fresh start.
• Your scores live on this device and browser - they won't appear on a different computer or phone.

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