Front Nine: Score Keeper

Front Nine keeps score for Play Nine, the golf card game, hole after hole. No more pencil and scorecard, no mental math: tap each player’s eight cards and the app counts the pairs, the −5s and the bonuses, by the rulebook. ADD THE PLAYERS From 2 to 6 players, as in the rules, in order around the table. Your regulars are one tap away. WHO DEALS? Everyone draws a card and the lowest deals; ties draw again. The app does the draw, or you choose. Then the deal passes left, and the app tells you who tees off. TAP THE CARDS, WE DO THE MATH Enter each player’s eight cards as they lie on the table. A matched pair in a column cancels out, two −5s in a column score −10, and matched pairs of the same value anywhere in the layout earn a bonus: −10 for two pairs, −15 for three, −20 for four. The app won’t accept more copies of a card than the deck holds. Rather type the total? That works too. THE…