Board games · for board game night scorekeepers
TallyDeck is a score pad app for board game nights, built for one phone that gets passed around the table. You pick a Yahtzee, Wingspan or Truco sheet, or a blank rounds sheet for any other game, and each player taps a box and enters a score on a large keypad while totals and places update. When the game is over, the sheet tears off along its perforated edge, shows the winner, and goes into a history you can reopen and correct later. There is no account, and nothing leaves the phone.
Tap Finish and the sheet rips away along its perforated top edge, dot by dot, with a paper-tearing sound and small vibrations that follow the tear. It folds back to show who won and by how much, and a fresh blank sheet is waiting underneath for the next game. The whole thing takes two seconds or less, and one tap skips it.
Every player has a column, and whoever is holding the phone sees theirs highlighted. Tap a box, enter the score on a keypad big enough to hit from across the table, then pass it on. Totals and places change as each number goes in, and on the Yahtzee sheet the 35-point upper bonus appears the moment the top six boxes reach 63.
Finished sheets are kept, not thrown away. History lists each game with its date, players, scores and winner, and tonight's sheets sit together under a plain line saying how many games were played and who won them. Found a wrong number the next day? Open the sheet, fix the box, and the totals and winner are worked out again. Rematch starts a new sheet with the same players and the same game in one tap.
At most game tables the scorekeeper is whoever ends up holding the pencil. Yahtzee comes with a pad of score cards, Wingspan comes with a scorepad, and every other game gets the back of an envelope. Paper works until it doesn't: the pad runs out halfway through a series, someone adds a long column wrong at midnight, the upper bonus gets forgotten, and the sheet with last month's results goes out with the recycling.
TallyDeck keeps the shape of the paper pad, players across the top and categories or rounds down the side, and takes over the arithmetic. Subtotals, bonuses, totals and places are worked out while you write, by the same rules during the game and after it ends. Fixing a wrong number means tapping the box again, not scribbling over it.
Yahtzee. The six upper boxes from Aces to Sixes with a running subtotal, and the 35-point bonus once that subtotal reaches 63, as the published rules set it. Below that come Three and Four of a Kind, Full House at 25, Small Straight at 30, Large Straight at 40, Yahtzee at 50, and Chance.
Wingspan. One row for each end-of-game category: birds, bonus cards, end-of-round goals, eggs, food on cards and tucked cards. You enter what you counted on the table, and the sheet adds the six rows for every player.
Truco. A counter for two teams that ends the game when a team reaches 12, the target in the Brazilian game.
Any game. A blank sheet for everything else. Add a round whenever you need one, enter plus or minus points for each player, name the rounds if you like, and see each round's score next to the running total.
In games like Yahtzee everyone writes their own score on their own turn. The phone goes around the table, the current player's column is highlighted so whoever is holding it knows where to write, and the next-player button hands it on.
In games scored at the end, like Wingspan, one person usually reads out everyone's numbers. Type a number and the next box is selected, so a whole table can be entered in one go. Both ways happen on the same grid; there is no mode to switch.
By default the screen stays awake while a sheet is open, so the phone does not lock between turns. The keypad and the boxes are sized for a dim living room or a game café rather than a desk, with dark numbers on light paper. The tearing sound follows the phone's silent switch and can be turned off in Settings.
TallyDeck has no account and makes no network requests, so it works the same in a basement game café, at a cabin with no signal, or in airplane mode. Sheets, players and history are stored on the phone. There is no analytics SDK and there are no notifications; the game night decides when the app opens.
To move to a new phone, make a backup file, send it wherever you like through the share sheet, and restore it on the other phone. Delete all data in Settings clears sheets, players and saved result card images in one step, and the app starts again from a blank sheet.
TallyDeck keeps score. It does not roll dice, deal cards, run turns, or explain how to play, so the game itself still sits on the table. Yahtzee, Wingspan and Truco are named only to say which scoresheet you are picking. TallyDeck is not affiliated with the publishers of these games, and it contains no game art, logos or rulebook text.
Players are a name and a color, with no photos or profiles. Renaming someone does not rewrite old sheets; a torn sheet keeps the names as they were on the night.
Yes. It makes no network requests at all, so a game café basement or a cabin with no signal makes no difference. Everything is stored on the phone.
No. It is built for one phone passed around the table. Each player has a column, and the column of whoever is entering a score is highlighted.
Yes. The upper subtotal is kept as you play, and the 35 points are added as soon as it reaches 63, exactly when the published rules award them.
Tap the box again and change or clear it; totals and places update straight away. A sheet that has already been torn off can be opened from History and corrected the same way, and its winner is worked out again.
Yes. Any game gives you a blank rounds sheet: add rounds as you go, enter plus or minus points, and the running total is kept for each player.
Make a backup file in the app and send it to yourself through the share sheet, then restore it on the new phone. There is no account or cloud copy, so the file is the only way across.
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