Scoring
How blind is scored
The same five points a drawing as blank. The scoring is not what makes it hard.
The five points
Naming a drawing earns 72% of its 5.00; the other 28% comes off the clock. What changes in blind is the canvas: it stays empty for the whole of your drawing time, at every difficulty. No line, no after-image, no chance to correct. The only feedback is a count of strokes, which tells you the pen is registering and nothing about what you have made.
| Round | Drawings | Seconds each | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | 10 | 5 | 50.00 |
| Hard | 12 | 4 | 60.00 |
| Brutal | 20 | 3 | 100.00 |
Brutal also mirrors the canvas while you draw. You cannot see it happening, you find out at the reveal, and it is announced up front rather than sprung on you.
Why the number can be trusted
When you post a score, the round travels to the server, not the score. The server rebuilds the exact round from its seed — the same words, the same figures — marks it again itself, and stores the number it worked out. Claiming a perfect fifty with ten wrong answers stores a zero.
The one thing the server cannot see is your clock, because only your browser watched it. So the timer reading is clamped to the range it could possibly have been in: a forged clock can buy the speed bonus and never the point itself.
Play blind