Slider Scoreboard for Board Games Scrabble Tracker

Scrabble Score Tracker - Mechanical Sliding Point Counter for Board Games 🎲

A satisfying, no-app, no-paper score keeper built for Scrabble - and every other game where points matter.

The Idea

Keeping score on a scrap of paper during Scrabble is fine - until someone knocks over a drink, the pen runs dry, or you lose track of whose column is whose. This mechanical counter sits on the table, stays readable from across the board, and holds your score in place between turns. No phone, no notepad, no arguments about who wrote what.

How It Works

The board has three horizontal tracks with printed numbers running left to right:

• 🔼 Top row - hundreds (0, 100, 200 … 1000)
• ➡️ Middle row - tens (0, 10, 20 … 100)
• 🔽 Bottom row - units (0, 1, 2 … 9)

Each track has its own sliding pointer. Slide all three to the right positions, read the three rows together as a sum, and that's your score. The total range covers 0 to 1110 points, which is more than enough for any Scrabble game - or most other board games with running totals.

Set hundreds to 400 + tens to 60 + units to 7 → score reads 467

Adding points after each turn is just as simple: nudge whichever rows need updating and the new total is immediately visible.

The Click Mechanism 🔧

This is what makes the tracker genuinely pleasant to use. Inside each track there are small recesses spaced precisely at every number position. The slider carriage is built with two thin flexible wings that snap into these recesses as you move the pointer along. The result is a firm, tactile click at every single number - you feel it in your finger and hear it clearly.

Because of this, pointers don't drift. They stay exactly where you leave them, even if the board gets nudged. Moving from one number to the next requires a deliberate push, which means accidental score changes essentially can't happen.

What's in the File (10 parts total)

Everything is press-fit. The pointer cap clips firmly onto the carriage pin, and the end caps lock into the track opening with enough grip to stay put during normal use. If you want a permanent bond - for example if you're giving it as a gift - a single drop of super glue at each joint is all it takes.

Who It's For

Primarily designed around Scrabble, where individual turn scores in the dozens or hundreds stack up fast and a visible running total saves a lot of back-and-forth. But the tracker works equally well for any game that uses cumulative point scoring - card games, dice games, educational activities, or anything else where you need a number to sit reliably on the table between turns. 🃏