Jeep Score

My friends and I play a game: how many Jeep Wranglers will we see today?

I got tired of keeping track of everyone’s guesses and the count of how many Wranglers we’ve seen. So I made the computer do it for me.

You can view your gameboard here.

The Rules

Whatever rules you want. The way we play is like this:

1. If you see a Jeep, call it out. You’re not trying to see more than the next person. If anyone sees one, it counts +1 for everyone.

2. No double-counting. If you see the same Jeep over and over again, it only counts once. If more than one person sees the same Jeep, it only counts once.

3. No dealership Jeeps. It has to be owned by a person, as best as you can tell. It wouldn’t be fair if you could count 50 more Jeeps because you happened to drive by a dealership.

4. Any other rules you want. Only red Jeeps. Only lifted Jeeps. Only TJs. Only Jeeps when we’re not in Moab during Easter Jeep Safari. And so on…

How To Play

Someone’s in charge of the game–it doesn’t matter who, they’ll just need to browse to the game link on their phone:

Gameboard

Everyone agrees on the time-frame of the game: the whole day, the next hour, the entire vacation, whatever. You can have multiple games going at the same time if you want.

Everyone agrees who’s playing.

The order of player entry doesn’t matter.

Each person taps Add Player and enters their name and bid (how many Jeeps they think the group will see). Each person’s bid is hidden until the last person taps Start–otherwise you could change your bid based on what others were bidding.

Once the game is started it’s active until you tap End. If you’ve ended a game you cannot restart it.

The rows with each player name are highlighted: yellow means the count has not yet reached that player’s minimum. Green means the count is within that player’s bid range. Red means the count has exceeded that player’s maximum. If you’re in green when the game is ended, you win.

In the center is the current count. Tapping the up arrow or the count will +1 the value. Tapping the down arrow will -1 the value (just in case you have accidentally added more than one).

Over on the right of the count area is a menu that lets you select the scoring algorithm.

Below the count area are some game-management options. It’s okay to start a new game while a game is currently going on–you won’t lose the existing one.

The bottom-most section shows which games are saved on your phone. There is a maximum of 50, above which the oldest games will be automatically deleted.

You can delete all games, or check the boxes to delete specific games. A prompt will confirm you are sure you want to delete before doing so.

Clicking the Load button will load the checked game and it will replace the active game in the above panel. Your previous game is not lost, it is just no longer the active game–you can always load it back in.

By default, the game is named based on the date and time it was started. The row prefixed with an arrow (➔) indicates the current (visible) game. The pencil icon will let you rename the game. Along with the game name, the number of players in the game is shown, together with that game’s current count.

Clicking the End button will prompt you to end the current game. Once ended, that game count can no longer be updated and the background is changed to grey to distinguish finished games from ongoing games. There is no way to restart a game that has been ended.

Scoring Algorithms

Spread Split

The difference between the highest and lowest bid (the spread) is divided across each player (the split, rounded down) and their range is their bid plus or minus the split. For example, if player A bids 10, and player B bids 20, and player C bids 22, the spread is 12 (highest bid 22 - lowest bid 10) and the split is 4 (spread 12 / 3 players). So:

Player A’s range is 6 (bid 10 - split 4) to 14 (bid 10 + split 4)

Player B’s range is 16 (bid 20 - split 4) to 24 (bid 20 + split 4)

Player C’s range is 18 (bid 22 - split 4) to 26 (bid 22 + split 4)

If the count is within the player’s range, that player is a winner.

Price Is Right

Like in the game show, the winner is the player whose bid is closest to the count without going over.

A Few Other Details

You can download the page and save it to use locally if you want.

You can have more than one game in progress, but can only have one visible at a time.

The game only runs on your device (phone, computer, etc.) and all the games you play are saved there.

No identification.

No cloud.

No tracking.

No spying.

No ads.

No nagging.

No popups.

No micropayments.

There’s a link at the bottom of the gameboard to Github, where this project is based online. You can tell me about problems there. I make no promises about fixing anything you don’t like about it.