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Skip-Bo Score Sheet
Most families play Skip-Bo one hand at a time and never keep score. The official rules have a proper scoring game though: 25 points to whoever empties their stockpile, plus 5 for every card the others still have in theirs, first to 500. This sheet runs it for you.
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Only the player who goes out scores in a hand. Everyone else enters zero, and their leftover stockpile cards become the winner's bonus.
| Event | Points |
|---|---|
| Emptying your stockpile (winning the hand) | 25 |
| Each card left in an opponent's stockpile | 5 |
| Everyone who did not go out | 0 |
| Game | First to 500 |
Example: you go out while two opponents have 4 and 7 cards left in their stockpiles. You score 25 + (11 × 5) = 80 points for the hand.
How Skip-Bo scoring works
In a single hand of Skip-Bo, everyone races to play off their stockpile onto the shared building piles, using Skip-Bo cards as wilds. The first player to play the last card from their stockpile wins the hand. In the scoring game, that player collects 25 points and then counts the cards still sitting in every other player's stockpile, at 5 points each. A narrow win is worth little, but going out while everyone else is stuck with a fat stockpile can be worth a hundred points or more. Play hand after hand until someone's total reaches 500. With two to four players the stockpiles are 30 cards each; with five or six, 20 cards, which keeps the bigger games from dragging.
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Skip-Bo scoring: common questions
The player who empties their stockpile first scores 25 points, plus 5 points for every card remaining in each opponent's stockpile. Nobody else scores in that hand. The first player to reach 500 points wins the game.
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