What Is a Peter Roll? (And What Is a Spartan?)

Winning is winning. But some wins deserve their own name, and freshIvories tracks two of them on your profile for life.

The Peter Roll

A Peter Roll is a win where your opponent never made it halfway. Precisely: you reach the target score, and their final total is less than half of it.

In a game to 150, that means they finished on 74 or less. In a game to 100, they finished under 50. Get to the target while they are still stuck in double digits and it goes on your record.

It is deliberately hard. Half the target is a lot of room, and most players scrape past it even in a bad game. A Peter Roll means you controlled the board the whole way — not that you got lucky once.

The Spartan

A Spartan is different. It is not about the gap between you and your opponent — it is about the absolute number. Your side finished on 300 or more points.

The bar is a flat 300 regardless of what the game was set to. A 250-point game won at 300+ counts. A 150-point game won at 200 does not, however dominant it looked. Because the win is checked the moment you cross the target, reaching 300 usually means a long game with a lot of scoring in it.

Both at once

Nothing stops a single game producing both. Run the score up past 300 while holding your opponent under half the target and you bank a Peter Roll and a Spartan from the same hand.

In partner play, both are measured on team totals rather than individual scores, so your partner's points count toward yours.

Where they show up

Peter Rolls and Spartans are lifetime counters on your player profile, and Spartans have their own leaderboard. They are pure bragging rights — they do not affect your ELO rating, which only cares whether you won and who you beat.