Pointsman

Name: Pointsman
Rating: 4.4 (64 reviews)
Author: Chimera Software, LLC

Smart Scoring "Ticket To Ride"

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

64 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Utilities
Developer

Chimera Software, LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

47
MB

Tired of counting trains? Let the Pointsman score your games of Ticket To Ride automatically using nothing more than your iPhone's camera! The Pointsman is 100% free with absolutely no ads. If you find yourself enjoying the Pointsman and want to support it, please consider leaving a tip via the app. You can use the Pointsman during normal gameplay to confirm player scores, or just leave the scoring till the end and maximize your enjoyment! The Pointsman will tally up all player routes, route scores, station placements, longest train routes and other game specific bonuses, plus all destination tickets. Everything is presented on a beautiful “score ticket” you can share as a memento of your game. Pointsman uses ARKit, CoreML and custom machine learning to recognize trains on the game board; training the models to make this possible is specific to each set. As such, the Pointsman currently only works on the following versions of the game: Ticket To Ride (USA) Ticket To Ride: USA 1910 Expansion Ticket To Ride: Europe Ticket To Ride: Europa 1912 Expansion Ticket To Ride: Rails and Sails, The Great Lakes Coming Soon: Ticket To Ride: Rails and Sails, The World Known Issues: 1. The Pointsman is not trained to recognize the transparent promotional train sets 2. The Pointsman is not trained to recognize the turquoise variant of the blue trains For best results, stand in squarely in front of the game board and hold your device at approximately a 45 degree angle to the game board. To confirm that the score is accurate, you can perform the following two checks: 1. For each player the number of unused trains is printed on the score ticket, just confirm the number matches the actual number of unused trains. 2. Every connection for each player is listed on the score ticket, you can manually confirm each connection is accurate. If the Pointsman does make a mistake, simply tap on the player's score to access the score editing interface to make the necessary corrections. Want to try it out but don't have a finished game handy? Just go to http://chimerasw.com/pointsman/ and use the Pointsman on the image there! Please note that the Pointsman is not affiliated with Days of Wonder or Ticket to Ride in any manner whatsoever. I am just a fan that finds counting trains to be quite tedious. If you are reading this then you probably do as well!

Ratings & Reviews

4.4

out of 5

64 Ratings

Trouble recognizing black train cars.
07/14/2022

Casatron
This is a fantastic app that does a great job of scoring through the iPhone camera, but it does seem to have trouble accurately scoring the black train cars. I was getting negative points for incomplete tickets, so as a test I replaced all the cars with blue pieces and used the app again, after which it scored correctly. It also occasionally reads printed route colors as train cars, but this happens less often and can be ignored.
Trouble recognizing black train cars.
07/14/2022

Casatron

This is a fantastic app that does a great job of scoring through the iPhone camera, but it does seem to have trouble accurately scoring the black train cars. I was getting negative points for incomplete tickets, so as a test I replaced all the cars with blue pieces and used the app again, after which it scored correctly. It also occasionally reads printed route colors as train cars, but this happens less often and can be ignored.
Works pretty good…
01/01/2022

Elhanan2
Once we figured out getting it to read the map it works pretty good. However, it has trouble with the clear purple train cars that were promotional giveaways at some point. It makes a mistake or two here and there that might be manually corrected but the correction screen has a problem. The switches to turn routes on and off are there but the names of the routes themselves are not… makes it kinda hard to figure out which ones to turn on or off. Otherwise it does a fine job of the tedious task of summing up the game.
Works pretty good…
01/01/2022

Elhanan2

Once we figured out getting it to read the map it works pretty good. However, it has trouble with the clear purple train cars that were promotional giveaways at some point. It makes a mistake or two here and there that might be manually corrected but the correction screen has a problem. The switches to turn routes on and off are there but the names of the routes themselves are not… makes it kinda hard to figure out which ones to turn on or off. Otherwise it does a fine job of the tedious task of summing up the game.
Saves so much time!
03/25/2023

Xyzzy4567
This is a great app for counting scores at the end of the game. Very easy to use! It mostly gets things correct, you just have to quickly double check the routes registered correctly. But more often than not, they are fine. The manual interface is easy to use so you can correct anything that looks off.Only shortcomings I’ve run into so far is that they don’t have the Asia map. Hopefully they add it at some point.
Saves so much time!
03/25/2023

Xyzzy4567

This is a great app for counting scores at the end of the game. Very easy to use! It mostly gets things correct, you just have to quickly double check the routes registered correctly. But more often than not, they are fine. The manual interface is easy to use so you can correct anything that looks off.Only shortcomings I’ve run into so far is that they don’t have the Asia map. Hopefully they add it at some point.
Quick and accurate scoring
03/10/2019

Robertrunner
Amazingly quick and accurate scoring for Ticket to Ride. Especially useful when you realize you have been forgetting to move the point markers. It does need sufficient light for the camera to get the proper image. We were playing in a dimly light room and it had difficulty, but illuminating it from above with a flashlight took care of it. Overall impressive and handy app if you are a fan of Ticket to Ride.
Quick and accurate scoring
03/10/2019

Robertrunner

Amazingly quick and accurate scoring for Ticket to Ride. Especially useful when you realize you have been forgetting to move the point markers. It does need sufficient light for the camera to get the proper image. We were playing in a dimly light room and it had difficulty, but illuminating it from above with a flashlight took care of it. Overall impressive and handy app if you are a fan of Ticket to Ride.

A warm thank you to everyone who have reached out to help make the Pointsman even better! • In the last update we introduced a bug which prevents you from scanning multiple tickets in a row; this is now fixed.