Every game we score now has its own page
Brad Anderson
We put the full rules for every game Spicy Golf scores on the web, at /games. Eleven games today: Nassau, Match Play, Best Ball, Stroke Play, Closeout, Florida, Five Points, Nine Points, Ten Points, Vegas and The Big Game.
Why these pages exist
Golfers argue about game rules constantly, and the answers are scattered across forums, club bar napkins and one guy's memory. We had already written the rules down — the app needs them to score a game — so publishing them cost us almost nothing and may settle some arguments.
They are generated, not written
Each page is built from the same game catalog the app uses. The description, the player counts, the options you can turn on: all of it comes out of one definition per game. Edit the game, and the page follows.
That matters more than it sounds. Documentation that lives apart from the thing it documents goes stale within a release or two. This cannot: if the rules on the page were wrong, the app would be scoring the game wrong too.
What is on a page
| Section | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Summary and player count | Whether this game works for your group before you read anything else |
| Rules | How a hole is won, how the game is settled, what happens on a tie |
| Options | The variations you can turn on — presses, junk, how strokes are allocated |
Start with Nassau if you want the shape of it. It is three separate match play games — front nine, back nine, and overall. If you want the game that started it all for Spicy, see Five Points.
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