Petanque & Bocce Scoreboard
Enter which team held the end and how many balls beat the opponent's closest, and this petanque/bocce scoreboard applies the real rule: only one team scores per end, to 13 (petanque) or 12/16 (bocce).
Built by the AbraCalc team
How to play
- Enter both team names and pick the format — petanque plays to 13, bocce to 12 or 16 — then tap Start Game.
- After each end, tap the team that held it (closest ball to the jack) and enter how many of their balls beat the opponent's closest ball.
- Tap Submit End — only the holding team's total increases, by exactly that many points, and the end log records the result.
- The board locks automatically the moment either team reaches the target score; use Undo if an end was logged incorrectly.
Petanque and bocce share a scoring rule that trips up a lot of casual scorekeepers: only the team whose boule is closest to the jack scores anything on an end, and it scores one point for every one of its own boules that beats the opponent's single closest boule — the losing team always gets zero, no matter how close their other balls landed. This scoreboard keeps that rule airtight: pick which team held the end, enter how many of their balls beat the opponent's best (1 to 6), and it adds the points to the right side only. Switch between petanque's race to 13 and bocce's race to 12 or 16 before you start, and the board locks the moment a team reaches the target. Undo pulls back the last end exactly if you logged it wrong.
Frequently asked questions
- Why does only one team ever score on an end?
- Petanque and bocce both use closest-to-the-jack scoring: whichever team's boule is nearest the jack holds the end, and only that team can score. The other team scores zero regardless of how many balls they threw or how close their next-best ball landed, so this scoreboard only ever adds points to one side per end.
- How many points can a team score in a single end?
- Between 1 and 6. The holding team scores one point for every one of its own boules that is closer to the jack than the opponent's single closest boule, and each side plays at most 6 boules total in standard doubles and triples formats, so the per-end maximum is capped at 6.
- What's the difference between the petanque and bocce presets?
- The scoring rule is identical — only the format target changes. Petanque is traditionally played to 13 points, while bocce is commonly played to either 12 or 16 depending on house or league rules, so this scoreboard offers all three as one-tap presets before the game starts.