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Counting wins with conkers
Cheerful Dragon Started conversation Oct 28, 2002
I always understood that scoring in conker matches went as follows: Take your conker's current score as 'a' and your opponent's conker's score as 'b'. After the battle, the winner's score is 'a + b + 1'. So if neither conker had 'fought' before, the score is '0 + 0 + 1 = 1'. If one conker had a score of 2 and the other had a score of 10, the winning score would be '2 + 10 + 1 = 13'.
I guess it depends on which part of the country you come from.
Counting wins with conkers
Orcus Posted Oct 28, 2002
Yep that was our old system in darkest Bedfordshire 
Counting wins with conkers
Sea Change Posted Oct 28, 2002
Would you continue to vie with a high-value conker, or would you save it as something remarkable, that other children could covet?
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