Re: Skins games

Paul Little wrote:
> It's pretty straight forward. You win a skin by taking two or more points in
> an end where you have the hammer, or by stealing one or more points in an
> end where you do not have the hammer. If an end is blanked, or the team with
> the hammer only scores one, the skin is "carried over" and added to the skin
> for the next end. If a skin is NOT scored, the last rock advantage changes
> to the other team. You cannot blank an end to keep last rock. The winner is
> the team with the most skins won at the end of the game. The number of
> points scored is not tallied.


There are all kinds of variations that can be done for club curling for 
 "total-point" skins bonspiels.

One that I have heard of has no carryovers... thus teams have to go all 
out and cannot play conservatively to get a carryover... if either does 
not score the skin, it dissappears.   So playing for carryovers becomes 
 a disadvantage for these two teams, against the rest of the field.

Another variation is to allow a bonus "skin" for "winning" the game on 
normal points.  Throws in an extra wrinkle.

Then there is another which adds extra bonus full or partial skins for 
scoring *more* than 1 without-hammer or more than 2 with...  Some of 
those weigh "stealing" of greater difficulty and might give a full bonus 
of 1 for stealing 2, but, say, only an extra .5 for getting 3 with hammer.