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About highscores

Quinn maintains a separate highscore list for each player, which permanently stores the player’s ten best results. Those lists make up your computer’s local highscore database. Additionally, you can sign up for the online highscore database and automatically submit your results there after each game. Then you can compare yourself to others in categories like top score, most lines per minute etc. on the Quinn website.

Here’s how it works: After each game, Quinn asks you which player the game result should be assigned to, and whether you’d like to send the result to the online database. The player name is always the same for both the local and online highscore list. You need a minimum score of 1000 in order to qualify for a highscore—lower scores won’t be added to the local nor the online highscores. Since the local highscore database only stores ten results per player, however, a result with more than 1000 points may still not show up there if the score is lower than the tenth best score.

You can view the local highscores by clicking the Highscores button in the toolbar, by choosing Highscores > Show Highscores, or by pressing Command-Shift-H. You see an overview of all players, sorted descendingly by their top score. An arrow next to a player’s name indicates the player’s rank improved or degraded after the last game. To view the ten best results of a certain player, choose the player from the pop-up menu at the top.

During network games and tournaments, Quinn keeps additional highscore lists for all participants, which automatically appear after each game. In these lists, the ranks can be assigned by different criteria than the maximum score, depending on the rules used. See About multiplayer rules for more info on that.

Note: Quinn stores the local highscore data in its preferences file (~/Library/Preferences/Quinn.plist). You can copy this file to backup your results, or move it to another computer. The data is saved in an encrypted form.

See also

Signing up for the online highscore database

Recording a highscore