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Step 5Scoring.
Play continues until one conker becomes too damaged to continue. This could just as easily be the attacking conker as the defender.
The other conker then gains a point. That's the conker gains a point, not the conker's user.
When a conker breaks its first opponent, it becomes a one-er or a once-er. When it breaks a second conker, it becomes a twicer or two-er. Three wins makes it a three-er, then four-er, fiver and the traditionally-significant sixer.
Scores are cumulative as well - if a twicer bets a sixer, it becomes a niner (it's own two, plus the other conker's six, plus one for this win). It is thus possible for a relatively few matches to turn a reasonably successful conker into the near-mythological ninety-niner.
Because the points are retained by the conker, not its user, successful conkers can become valuable commodities in the traditional playground, trading for sweets, comics and favours.
The other conker then gains a point. That's the conker gains a point, not the conker's user.
When a conker breaks its first opponent, it becomes a one-er or a once-er. When it breaks a second conker, it becomes a twicer or two-er. Three wins makes it a three-er, then four-er, fiver and the traditionally-significant sixer.
Scores are cumulative as well - if a twicer bets a sixer, it becomes a niner (it's own two, plus the other conker's six, plus one for this win). It is thus possible for a relatively few matches to turn a reasonably successful conker into the near-mythological ninety-niner.
Because the points are retained by the conker, not its user, successful conkers can become valuable commodities in the traditional playground, trading for sweets, comics and favours.
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