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Originally Posted by brushbackz
I see in a lot of these posts talk about 5 point and 3 point. what do u guys mean?
Not sure how these were mentioned, but it could either be referring to points on the board, of which there are 24, or the length of a match, usually to an odd number of points (1, 3, 5, ..., 25).
If you consider the board above from red's perspective, he has 2 pieces on his 24pt, 5 on his 13pt, 3 on his 8pt and 5 on his 6pt. The
5-point and
3-point are two of his inner-board or home-board points that he would like to make. The 5pt could be made with an opening 31, or a return 44, 11 or 31. The 3pt could be made with an opening 53, or a return 55, 33 or 53.
Match play is played to a pre-determined number of points. Except for 2-point blitzes, matches are always played to an odd-number of points, such as
3 points,
5 points etc. AFAIK there is no reason why this has become the norm, you could just as easily play a match to 10 points.