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What are a game, match, game night, group and season?
These names describe different layers of the same evening. A game is one play on the counter, a match is the result made up of one or more games, and a game night collects the matches played together that evening. A group and its seasons organise results across multiple nights.
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The five levels
- Game: one game on the table, from its starting life totals to Game over. It has its own winner, duration and player seats.
- Match: one result between the participants. A match can contain a single game or several games. After a game, choose Next game in this match to continue the same match, or Finish match to complete the result.
- Game night: the roster and matches for one gathering. In the app this appears under Night. A signed-in organiser can start a night from Night. For a signed-in organiser, the app can also start one when the first life total of a game changes. Night standings use the completed matches from that night.
- Group: an ongoing collection of people and game nights. Tonight’s roster can include somebody who is not a permanent group member, while the group can continue across many nights.
- Season: a named standings period inside one group. Game nights can be linked to a group and one of that group’s seasons. Eligible results from those linked nights appear in that season’s standings.
An example with two games
Imagine Alex and Robin play two games during Friday’s game night. Alex wins the first game. They choose Next game in this match, play again and Alex wins the second game. They then choose Finish match.
This illustrative result contains:
- two games, because the counter was played through twice;
- one match, because both games belong to the same result;
- one game night containing that match.
The night summary can therefore show one match and two games. Match-based win rates count Alex’s result once, not twice: Alex won one of one match. The individual game winners are still kept underneath that match.
Why can the totals or standings differ?
Personal statistics, night standings and season standings use matches as their main denominator, even when a match contains several games. A summary’s Games total can therefore be higher than its Matches total.
Each type of standings has its own eligibility rules. Personal statistics include finished matches you played in yourself, with or without every participant’s confirmation. Night standings include finished matches from that night and mark results awaiting confirmation as provisional. Season standings include results from linked nights after every participant confirms the result or the result becomes final.
An unfinished match has no completed result yet and does not count in these standings. History can include a match you recorded for other people. Your win rate excludes it unless you played in it.