Race for the Galaxy Score Calculator
Tableau points, VP chips, and those variable 6-cost development bonuses — the three end-game sources, totaled for you. Free, for up to 4 players.
Score Calculator
| Category | ||
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| Tableau Card Points | ||
| VP Chips | ||
| 6-Cost Development Bonuses | ||
| Total | 0 | 0 |
It's a tie at the top — check your rulebook's tiebreaker.
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How Race for the Galaxy Scoring Works
Race for the Galaxy plays quickly and scores all at once. Each round every player secretly picks an action, every phase somebody picked happens for everyone, and tableaus grow fast. The game ends after the round in which a player reaches 12 or more cards in their tableau, or the shared VP chip pool runs out — and then three things get added together. Here's each one, and where the points hide.
1Tableau Card Points
Every world and development you managed to play shows a victory point value on the card, and at game end you just add them up. Count your whole tableau, starting world included. Cards still in your hand are money, not points, and so are the face-down goods sitting on your worlds — neither one goes in this row. The 6-cost developments are the exception: their value isn't a fixed number, so they get counted separately below.
2VP Chips
These are the chips you pulled from the shared pool during play, almost always in the Consume phase when you traded goods for victory points instead of cards. Chips come in more than one denomination, so add up their value rather than counting the stack — a short pile of high-value chips beats a tall pile of ones. Once a chip is yours it stays yours, so this number only ever goes up during a game.
36-Cost Development Bonuses
The 6-cost developments don't print a flat number — they print a condition, and what they're worth depends on how your tableau finished. One rewards a particular kind of world, another rewards the goods you're holding, another rewards the rest of your developments. Resolve each 6-cost development you played one at a time against your final tableau, add the results, and put the combined figure here. This is where close games are decided and where points most often go unnoticed, so it's worth reading each card out loud at the table.
Race for the Galaxy has two expansion arcs — the first beginning with The Gathering Storm, the second with Alien Artifacts — which add cards and extra systems on top of the base game, so check their rules for how their bonuses are awarded.
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