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Wyrmspan Score Calculator & Score Sheet

All eight score pad categories β€” Dragon Guild, dragons, end-game abilities, eggs, and the excess-items math everyone gets wrong. Free, for up to 5 players.

Or skip the typing: Meeply can scan your paper Wyrmspan score pad β†’

Score Calculator

This calculator adds up tonight's totals and forgets when you leave. Saving games, player stats, and scanning the paper score pad live in the free Meeply app β†’

How Wyrmspan Scoring Works

Wyrmspan games come down to eight categories, all totaled after round four. Two of them β€” end-game abilities and excess items β€” are where scores most often go wrong.

1Dragon Guild

Your guild token's final position on the Dragon Guild board determines these points β€” each space your token reached shows the victory points it's worth. Guild progress is easy to forget at the table because it happens on a shared board, not your player mat. Check the token, not your memory.

2Dragons

Add up the printed victory points of every dragon on your player mat, across all three caverns. Like birds in Wingspan, this is usually your largest single category β€” but Wyrmspan dragons swing harder, from humble hatchlings to double-digit behemoths.

3End-Game Abilities

Some dragons have abilities that only score when the game ends β€” "gain X points if" conditions evaluated at final scoring. Go dragon by dragon and check every end-game ability against your final board state. These are the points players most often leave on the table.

4Eggs

Count every egg nested on your dragons and in the bottom-left slots of your player mat β€” each is worth 1 point unless a card says otherwise. Just like Wingspan, a quiet egg engine adds up faster than it looks.

5Cached Resources

Each resource token cached on your dragons is worth 1 point unless otherwise specified. Resources still in your personal supply are not cached β€” they count toward Excess Items instead, at a much worse exchange rate.

6Tucked Cards

Cards tucked beneath your dragons score 1 point each unless a card says otherwise. Tuck engines in Wyrmspan can run deep β€” count carefully under every dragon.

7Public Objectives

At the end of each round your progress on that round's public objective placed a cube on the round tracker. At game end, each cube scores the points printed on its space. Ties are friendly β€” every player at the same level scores the full amount.

8Excess Items

The cleanup category β€” and the one everyone computes wrong. Score 1 point per coin you have left, plus 1 point for every four other leftover items (cards in hand, uncached resources) rounded down. Seven leftover cards and resources? That’s 1 point, not 1.75.

Coming from Wingspan? The rhythm is familiar but the categories aren't identical β€” here's our Wingspan score calculator for comparison.

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Wyrmspan Scoring Questions

How do you score Wyrmspan?
Add up eight categories at game end: your Dragon Guild progress, the printed points on your dragons, end-game dragon abilities, 1 point per nested egg, 1 point per cached resource, 1 point per tucked card, your public objective cubes on the round tracker, and excess items (1 per leftover coin plus 1 per four other leftover items, rounded down). Highest total wins.
How do Excess Items score in Wyrmspan?
You score 1 point for each coin you have left at game end, plus 1 point for every four other remaining items - cards in hand and uncached resources - rounded down. It's the most commonly miscalculated category on the score pad.
How does the Dragon Guild score?
Your guild token's final space on the Dragon Guild board shows the points it earns. You bank the progress during play; at game end you just read the number off the space your token reached.
What happens if players tie on a public objective?
Ties are friendly in Wyrmspan: every player whose marker sits at the same level scores the full points printed on that space. Nobody splits or rounds down.
What is a good Wyrmspan score?
Scores run a bit differently than Wingspan: a first game in the 40s is perfectly respectable, experienced players often land in the 60s, and anything past 75 is a monster game. The score pad categories reward engine depth over breadth.
Is Wyrmspan scoring the same as Wingspan?
Close cousins, not twins. Both count printed card values, eggs, cached resources, and tucked cards - but Wyrmspan replaces end-of-round goals with public objective cubes, adds Dragon Guild progress and end-game dragon abilities, and scores your leftovers as Excess Items. Same rhythm, two extra categories to forget.
Can I scan my paper Wyrmspan score pad?
Yes - Meeply is the only app that can. Snap a photo of your filled-in Wyrmspan score pad and every category fills itself in. Scanning is part of Meeply Premium and works for Wingspan too.