🔨 Hammer

How Hammer works

How it works: A match-play game (1v1 or 2v2) built around a doubling "hammer." You play each hole for a base value, but at any point a player can throw the hammer to double the game value.

Accept or fold: when the hammer is thrown, the other side either accepts — the value doubles and they hold the hammer next — or declines and concedes the hole right there at the current game. The hammer can be thrown back and forth, doubling each time it's accepted.

Winning the hole: low score wins the hole and its prize pool. Turn on halved holes carry and a tied hole rolls its prize pool forward onto the next hole.

Example: 2 base. You throw the hammer, they accept → 4. A few shots later they hammer back, you accept → 8. You make the low score, so you win 8 on the hole.

Setup options: Units per hole (the base value), use handicaps (net match) on/off, and halved holes carry the prize pool on/off.