Summit is a word puzzle and scoring system developed by Winning Moves UK in 2008, and is published in Take A Break and Puzzler Magazines, and appears every Friday in The Evening Standard, and Monday to Friday in the Daily Mail

Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...

, in the puzzle pages.

Top Trumps

Top Trumps

Top Trumps is a card game. Each card contains a list of numerical data, and the aim of the game is to compare these values in order to try to trump and win an opponent's card...

 also has a version of Summit on the back (bar code) card of every pack (from late 2008 onwards) that asks questions related to the pack and the cards from it.

Summit scoring system

The Summit scoring system assigns each letter a score based on its position in the alphabet. For example, the letter A is worth 1 point, B is worth 2, C worth 3, right down to Z which is worth 26. Other characters (such as punctuation and numerals) are ignored. So the band ABBA

ABBA

ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...

 scores 6 points, whereas the band ZZ Top

ZZ Top

ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...

 scores 103.

This scoring system is used in the family game Showdown (game)

Showdown (game)

Showdown is a trivia and word game that tests players’ general and popular culture knowledge, as well as their numerical skills and willingness to bluff and take a risk...

, also developed by Winning Moves UK.

Summit puzzle

The puzzle takes a variety of forms and is similar in format and distribution to puzzles such as Sudoku

Sudoku

is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9...

, Crosswords, and Polygon.

High score wins

This variation of the puzzle requires players to try to get the highest scoring answer possible, within a limited number of letters. The puzzle frequently comes with a "par score" for the topic which indicates the type of score a player should be trying to reach and surpass.

Lowest score wins

This variation requires players to try and get the lowest scoring answer possible, within a limited number of letters. The puzzle carries a "par score" for that topic which indicates the type of score a player should be trying to reach and surpass.

Hit A Score

This variation requires players to "hit" a given score for the topic, within a limited number of letters. Whilst there are many possible answers to the topic, only one carries the target score and the challenge to players is to find that one answer.