Calico Cat Scoring Calculator
Total a finished quilt board by cats, buttons, rainbow bonus, design goals, and empty spaces.
🧵Real Calico Board Presets
🐈Cat Tokens And Quilt Bonuses
📐Design Goal Tiles
Score Breakdown
🧩Quilt Component And Spec Grid
📋Cat Scoring Reference
| Cat | Token Value | Typical Tile Ask | Calculator Input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millie | 3 points | Small matching pattern group | Enter each Millie token placed on the quilt. |
| Tibbit | 5 points | Medium matching pattern group | Enter each Tibbit token placed on the quilt. |
| Coconut | 7 points | Large matching pattern group | Enter each Coconut token placed on the quilt. |
| Mixed cat board | Variable | Public cat cards in the current game | Use the closest point tier or enter tokens by value. |
📐Design Goal Reference
| Goal Pattern | One Attribute | Both Attributes | Scoring Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| AAA-BBB | 7 points | 11 points | Two groups of three around the goal tile. |
| AA-BB-CC | 8 points | 13 points | Three pairs by color, pattern, or both. |
| ABC-ABC | 9 points | 14 points | Repeated trio arrangement around the tile. |
| Six unique | 10 points | 15 points | No repeated color or pattern in the six spaces. |
| AAAA-BB | 6 points | 10 points | Four matching tiles plus one matching pair. |
🔘Button And Rainbow Reference
| Button Type | Trigger | Score | Calculator Treatment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red, blue, yellow, green, purple, black | Three connected tiles of that color | 3 points each | Count every color button earned. |
| Duplicate color button | Another qualifying color group | 3 points each | Add it to color buttons if the table awarded it. |
| Rainbow button | At least one button in all six colors | 3 points | Select the rainbow bonus once. |
| Unfinished color cluster | Only one or two same-color tiles | 0 points | Do not enter it as a button. |
🔎End Game Audit Table
| Audit Step | Look At | Common Miss | Calculator Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cat tokens | Pattern groups on public cat cards | Counting a near group without a token | Millie, Tibbit, Coconut tokens |
| Color buttons | Same-color groups of three or more | Missing a second group in the same color | Color buttons earned |
| Design tiles | Six spaces around each design tile | Scoring both attributes when only one matches | Goal match level selectors |
| Board completion | All fillable quilt spaces | Leaving a partial-board preset unchanged | Empty spaces on quilt board |
Calico: Place your final tile, gather up your tokens, and you’re done with the game… But the board’s complicated layout hides its final score. Have you forgotten a tiny grouping of matches? Did you miscount one of those design goals surrounding the center tiles? With this little scorer, that visual clutter translate back into simple checkable value. Don’t miss out on points because of math mistakes when they matter most.
Tokens is scored additively: you lose what you miss. There are three cats (Millie), Tibbit, and Coconut, representing increasing levels of pattern completeness. Millie will give you points if you have a few, but Coconut asks for bigger patterns in return for more reward. The calculator breaks this out into separate inputs so you can be precise when auditing your own board. Instead of an educated guess based on average, you input exactly how many tokens you earn per cat. Because if you’ve got mostly Millie tokens scattered around, it can seem full but not necessarily rich in the right places (the ones that Coconut rewards). The math get done for you so you can concentrate on checking off if you really did get those big groups.
How to Score Your Calico Game Easily
And then there are buttons. Each button is worth same amount (three per colored button), and they reward consistency over complexity. For an extra three points, a player must have at least one button from each of the six colors on their board (hence the name: rainbow bonus). While it might not seem like much, that can swing a close game. Most players forget about having multiple buttons of any given color, assuming limit is just one per color, but according to the rules, as long as you’re able to create distinct qualifying groups, you can have as many matching-color button as you want. The calculator take this into account and lets you enter them all without any confusion whatsoever. Now you can see how many points that second row of red in the corner was costing you.
The errors stem mostly from design objectives. Here are six of these rooms that use certain tiles and must match color/pattern based off some objective. The trick isn’t so much finding the pattern, but whether it’s a match across one attribute or two. If it matches two attributes, you get many many more points. Enough to completely alter the ranking entirely. You might think that because something looks visually identical, then it earns twice as many point, but rules are rigid about matching up. The calculator ask an explicit question about how closely you matched. This is done on purpose so you do not accidently give yourself extra points for something that looks like a match but does not actualy count.
Blank spots on the board hurt your possible score. They don’t contribute any points themselves, but they’re there to add some stress near the end of the game. There’s an empty space field in calculator to help you check your own work. It reminds you that finishing the whole board can help get most out of your design goals and cat tokens. Having empty spots means your cat cluster may be fragmented, making it harder to earn big ticket cats.
Included with the tool were reference tables that laid out the specific requirements for each design pattern and button type. These become a handy guide to double check whether the cluster you’re holding up actualy fits into one category or another. In the excitement of the score, sometimes our memories fail us. But we don’t have to remember everything off top of our head. We can simply double-check it against what’s right in front of us.
So yeah, Calico’s really all about paying attention (not mathematics). It’s not rocket science to do the math, but looking at that board can be tricky. Luckily, I’ve broken it all down into its parts: goals, bonuses, buttons, and yes even those pesky cats. Then there’s this calculator up top. Feed it the information and it’ll do the math for you, no more adding by hand, no more fear of doing it wrong. Instead, just enjoy the feel of a good round of gameplay without worrying if you did everything right. Every single point matters, especially in a tight race for that prized ribbon. Knowing how many points you have is almost as good as having them, so you should of dont sweat it.
