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A Feast for Odin Score Calculator & Score Sheet

All seven rows of the Odin pad, for 1–4 players — everything you built, sailed and earned, minus every space you never covered.

Score Calculator

Category
ShipsWhaling boat 3 · Knarr 5 · Longship 8
EmigrationsKnarr emigrated 18 · Longship emigrated 21
Exploration BoardsPrinted value, top right — 4 to 38 per board
Sheds and HousesShed 8 · Stone house 10 · Long house 17
Home Board (Negative Spaces)−86 fully uncovered — enter as a negative
Silver / IncomePoints from the silver you finish with
Occupation CardsEnd-game bonuses printed on certain occupations
Total00

Every row takes points, not counts — ships, buildings and exploration boards all have different printed values, so add each row up and enter the total. The Home Board row accepts a minus sign, and needs one.

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How A Feast for Odin Scoring Works

A Feast for Odin scores once, at the end, and the tally is famously simple to describe and brutal to face: add up the good things, then subtract the empty spaces. The good things are your ships, your emigrations, your exploration boards, your buildings, your silver and your occupation bonuses — every one of them a printed number you just have to find and total. The empty spaces are the rest of this page's story. Here's every row, with its values written out.

1Ships

Whaling boat 3 · Knarr 5 · Longship 8

Add the printed value of every boat you still own at the end: each whaling boat is worth 3 points, each knarr 5, and each longship 8. The bigger the hull, the more it was worth to you during the game and the more it's worth on the pad. Boats you sent away to settle new land aren't counted here — they score on the emigration row below, and for a great deal more.

2Emigrations

Knarr emigrated 18 · Longship emigrated 21

Each knarr used for an emigration is worth 18 points and each longship 21 — the biggest single numbers anywhere on the sheet. Look at what emigrating actually does to a boat: a knarr climbs from 5 to 18, a longship from 8 to 21. Both are exactly 13 points better than keeping the same boat at home, which makes an emigration one of the best-value moves available to you no matter which hull you send. Total your completed emigrations and enter the points here.

3Exploration Boards

Printed value, top right — 4 to 38 per board

Every exploration board in front of you has its point value printed in the top right corner, and the range is enormous: anywhere from 4 points to 38. Add the printed values of all your boards and enter the total. Because a single large board can outscore every ship you own, the corner number is worth reading before you decide where to sail — two boards are not remotely the same as each other on this row.

4Sheds and Houses

Shed 8 · Stone house 10 · Long house 17

Buildings score the value printed in their top right corner: a shed is 8 points, a stone house 10, and a long house 17. Add up everything you built and enter the total. Note how steep the top step is — one long house is worth more than two sheds, and nearly as much as two stone houses, so trading up rather than building wide is usually where the points are.

5Home Board (Negative Spaces)

−86 fully uncovered — enter as a negative

This is the row that makes A Feast for Odin what it is. Your home board begins the game worth −86 points: a field of negative spaces waiting to be covered with goods tiles. Every tile you lay down buries part of that hole, and whatever is still showing when the game ends is what you lose here. A perfectly tiled board would be a flat zero on this row, so the only question is how small you got the hole — and the answer is almost always still a minus. Count what's left uncovered and enter it as a negative number.

6Silver / Income

Points from the silver you finish with

You score points based on the silver you've accumulated by the end of the game. Silver comes in as income, and covering the coin icons printed on your boards raises the income you collect each time — so this row is the delayed payoff for a lot of small, unglamorous tidying decisions made hours earlier. Count your final silver and enter the points it's worth.

7Occupation Cards

End-game bonuses printed on certain occupations

Certain occupation cards award end-game scoring bonuses based on conditions printed on the card. Only some of them do — plenty of occupations pay you in actions and goods during the game and score nothing at all at the end — so go through the cards in front of you one at a time and total only the ones that actually trigger now. These are the most commonly missed points on the pad, because they ask about things you stopped paying attention to three hours ago.

The −86 Is the Whole Story

Most games start you at nothing and ask you to build upward. A Feast for Odin starts you at −86 and asks you to dig out. Your home board is a grid of negative spaces from the very first turn, and every goods tile you fit onto it is one more point of that hole filled in — not a point scored so much as a point stopped from being lost. That's why the game feels like tetris played against your own scorepad, and why the final tally so often comes down to a fistful of small tiles rather than the enormous 21-point emigration everyone remembers. Two players can sail the same seas, build the same houses and take the same occupations, and the one who packed their board tighter wins. When you fill in the row above, be honest about what's still showing.

Looking for an A Feast for Odin Score Sheet?

A Feast for Odin ships with one of the densest scorepads in the hobby — a full page of ruled columns for a game that ends with four people hunched over printed corner values at midnight, calling out numbers. This is that pad with the arithmetic handled. Every row is here with its printed values noted underneath, so nobody has to remember whether a long house is 17 or a stone house is 10, and the total takes the negative home board in its stride instead of turning into a subtraction argument. It forgets everything when you close the tab, though. For a score sheet that remembers — every game, every player, every win — A Feast for Odin is one of 300+ games in the free Meeply app.

Expansions

The Norwegians is the big expansion for A Feast for Odin, adding new material to the base game rather than replacing how it is scored — the seven rows above are still the seven rows you fill in.

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A Feast for Odin Scoring Questions

How do you score A Feast for Odin?
A Feast for Odin scores once, at the end of the game, across seven categories. Six of them add up: ships (whaling boat 3, knarr 5, longship 8), emigrations (knarr 18, longship 21), the values printed on your exploration boards, your buildings (shed 8, stone house 10, long house 17), the points from your final silver, and any end-game bonuses on your occupation cards. The seventh subtracts — every space still uncovered on your home board costs you, from a starting position of −86. Add the six, subtract the last, highest total wins.
Why is my A Feast for Odin score negative?
Because it starts that way. A fully uncovered home board is worth −86 points, and that hole is there from the first turn — every goods tile you lay down is you climbing out of it. Early in the game your running total genuinely is deeply negative, and it stays negative until the boards, buildings, ships and emigrations catch up. That's the design, not a mistake in your arithmetic. If you're tallying mid-game and horrified, you're doing it right.
How do ships and emigration score in A Feast for Odin?
A boat you still own at the end scores its printed value: whaling boat 3, knarr 5, longship 8. A boat you used for an emigration scores far more — 18 points for a knarr and 21 for a longship. The gap is the interesting part: emigrating is worth exactly 13 points more than keeping the boat, whichever of the two hulls you send. Whaling boats are not on the emigration row at all, so those stay home and score their 3.
How much are exploration boards and buildings worth in A Feast for Odin?
Both score the value printed in the top right corner of the piece. Exploration boards range widely — from 4 points up to 38 — so they need to be read individually rather than counted. Buildings are fixed: a shed is 8 points, a stone house 10, and a long house 17. Add the printed values of everything in front of you and put the totals on their respective rows.
Do goods and resources score points in A Feast for Odin?
Not directly — there's no row on the pad for your pile of goods. Goods score by what you do with them: laying them out as tiles covers the negative spaces on your home board, which is worth far more than any direct value, and covering the coin icons printed on your boards raises your income, which becomes silver and then points. So goods are absolutely worth points, just always through another row rather than a row of their own.
Do occupation cards score points in A Feast for Odin?
Some do. Certain occupations carry an end-game scoring bonus that pays out based on a condition printed on the card; the rest earn their keep during the game through actions and goods and score nothing at the end. Read your played occupations one at a time at scoring and total only the bonuses that trigger — this is the row most often left short, because the conditions reference parts of your board you finished with long ago.
Is there an A Feast for Odin score sheet I can use online?
This page is one — a free digital A Feast for Odin score sheet with all seven rows, the printed values noted under each one, and the totals added for you including the negative home board. It forgets everything when you close the tab, though. For a score sheet that remembers, A Feast for Odin is one of 300+ games with rules-aware scoresheets in the free Meeply app.
Does Meeply support A Feast for Odin?
Yes — A Feast for Odin is in the Meeply app with a category for each of the seven scoring rows, for 1 to 4 players, plus saved game history, player stats, and win rates. Free to try.