Give every person a column and every chore a row, type a count in each cell, and this page adds the grid both ways

AThe people, the chores and the cells

Set how many columns and how many rows the chart has, label each column, name each row, type what that row is worth and whether that value is an amount of money or points, and then type a count in each cell. Every chore, every value and every count is yours: this page supplies none of them.

A label is all this page asks for, and an initial or a nickname is enough. It asks for no name, no age, no date of birth, no school, no class, no year group, no photo and no date of any kind, and there is nowhere for any of that to go: nothing you type is sent anywhere, nothing is stored in this browser, and the figures are gone when the tab closes.

If you kept no tally and hold only the week's total of times done, a total is not a cell: set the chart to one person and one chore, type that total as the single cell's count (a whole number, 0 to 99 - a total above 99 does not fit one cell and this chart has no other way to take it) and type that chore's value against it; you then get that one total and no split, because a per-person or a per-chore figure is only what a count in each cell produces, and a remembered money or points total is not an input anywhere on this page, which divides and allocates nothing.

BThe chart, at a glance

Turns the labels, the chore names, the values and the counts you type into each chore's total across everybody, each person's total out of their own cells, one grand total in each unit, and the difference between the two ways of adding the grid.

This page supplies no chore and will not suggest one. It supplies no value, no allowance, no pocket money, no pay rate and no points scale, and it says nothing about what any chore is worth, what is usual or what anyone else does. It carries no chore list, no chore-by-age table, no difficulty rating, no frequency and no duration. It gives no parenting, discipline, reward, punishment, incentive, motivation, screen-time or consequence advice, and it makes no claim about chores and responsibility, chores and character or chores and outcomes. It makes no developmental, educational, psychological, behavioural, health or safety claim, and it says nothing about what anyone of any age can, should or should not do. It makes no employment, wage, minimum-wage, tax, benefit or child-labour statement of any kind. It prints no verdict, no grade, no star, no rank and no league table, it compares nobody with anybody, and the rows sit in the order you typed them and the columns in the order you labelled them. It divides nothing: no total you type is shared out, no share is computed and no percentage is printed anywhere.

Printed from otherworldlabs.com, the week's counted chart.

CThe chart itself

A row for each chore with the value typed against it, a column for each person, a count in every cell, each row's total at the right, each column's figures at the foot and the grand totals in the corner. A cell left empty reads as a dash and a cell with a typed zero reads as 0, and the two are kept apart even though both add nothing.

DEach chore, counted and valued

One pair of lines for each chore: how many times it was done across everybody, and what that row comes to at the value typed against that row. A row with a value and no count anywhere comes to zero, and the chart prints that zero.

EEach person, counted and earned

One trio of lines for each column: how many times that person did something, and what they earned in money and in points, each built up out of that person's own cells and out of nothing else. A labelled column that adds to nothing keeps its place and reads zero.

FThe two margins, added separately

The chore rows added down and the person columns added across, in each unit, with the difference between the two printed on its own line. The two are built out of one set of cells by two routes, so the difference is the proof that nothing was counted twice and nothing was dropped.

GEvery figure, worked

The additions this page performs, written out of the figures the sections before it print. A cell's own amount is one count multiplied by one typed value, so it is a multiplication and not one of the sums written out here; the chart prints that cell's count.

HWhat this page is waiting for, and what it read

Every sentence here names a state this page keeps apart. None of them is an error, none of them is about any person, and none of them is advice.

IThe four things, the words, and how the figures are read

The four things this page tells apart

What each chore came to across everybody at the value typed against that chore. What each person earned out of their own cells alone. The two margins added separately, with the difference between them printed. And money kept apart from points as two totals that are never added into one. Everything else on this page is a view of the cells you typed.

A cell

One chore and one person. The count in it is how many times that person did that chore, written as a whole number inside the range the control offers. A cell left empty is not a cell holding a typed zero: the chart shows a dash for the first and a 0 for the second, and the record keeps them apart even though both add nothing to any total. A figure outside the range the control offers is read as not typed and is never pulled to the nearest value the control offers, so a cell the range cannot take shows the dash of a cell left empty. A cell figure that is not a whole number is rounded to the nearest whole number before the range is read, which is the one place that order shows: a fraction between nothing and minus a half rounds to zero and is then read as a typed zero, and anything further below is read as not typed at all.

A chore's value, and what it is in

What one of that chore is worth, typed by you, from 0 to 999.99, and whether that figure is an amount of money or a number of points. A blank value is not read as zero: a row with no value has no amount, so its row total says that no value is typed and prints no figure it has not got. One typed value multiplies every cell of that row. A value outside the range above is read as not typed in either direction, and here the range is read before the figure is rounded, so a value just past the top is read as not typed rather than pulled down to it, and a value below nothing is read as not typed whatever it would round to. A value finer than a hundredth is rounded to the nearest hundredth once, before it multiplies anything.

A chore's row total

The row's times done multiplied by the value typed against the row, in that row's own unit. A chore with a value and no count anywhere comes to zero, and it is printed as zero and kept on the chart.

A person's total

Built up out of that person's own cells and out of nothing else: each of their counts multiplied by the value of the chore on that row, added in money and added in points separately. Nothing is divided, allocated or shared out anywhere on this page, so no total you type is split between anybody and no share and no percentage is printed.

The two margins, and the difference between them

The chore row totals added down and the person column totals added across are two routes through one set of cells, and the difference between them is printed on its own line in each unit. Both routes work in whole cents and whole points-hundredths, so the difference is exact arithmetic and not a rounded figure.

Money and points

Two units, two totals, and this page will not add them together. A chart with an amount against one chore and points against another gets one money total and one points total, and the page says so and does not mix them into a single figure.

What is withheld, and when

No amount is shown in the corner until at least one chore carries a value in a unit the page read, and no chore that carries a count is left without a value. While either of those is true the two headline tiles, the chart's two corner totals and the six money and points lines of the two margins all read not shown; the six money and points lines of the working carry a dash under a label saying they are held back and which of the two conditions holds; and the sentence naming the rows the chart is waiting on prints in the glance, in front of them all. The counts are complete on their own and print throughout, because the chart is a chart before anything is valued.

A chore with a value and no unit the page read

The control beside each chore ships with an amount of money chosen and offers only the two, so this state cannot be reached from the page itself. An agent calling the arithmetic directly can produce it, and the engine then places that row's amount in neither total and says so, and does not decide for you which unit you meant.

A label, and nothing else

A column is labelled, not named. Up to twenty-four characters, blank allowed, and an initial or a nickname is enough. This page asks for no name, no age, no date of birth, no school, no class, no year group, no photo and no date of any kind, anywhere, and the sheet beside it asks for none of them either.

Nothing is stored and nothing is sent

No figure you type is stored in this browser or anywhere else, nothing is sent, no account is asked for. The figures are gone when the tab closes, which is why there is a workbook beside this page for anybody who needs the chart to last.

What is not supplied, and what that costs this page

No chore, no value, no age guidance, no frequency and no design. Every chart on the ten results read for this phrase on 2026-10-25 arrives with its chores already in it and two of them sort chores by age, so for anybody who wanted a ready-made list this page is worse than a free printable and that is written here rather than argued away. What it supplies instead is the arithmetic: a count in every cell, a value against every row, two margins and the difference between them.

JThe decisions this page does not make

Each of these is yours. None of them is decided here, and no option set out here is recommended.

Which chores go on the chart

This page publishes no chore and no list of chores, and it will not sort chores by anything. Every row here is one you typed, and where the rows come from is yours to settle.

What a chore is worth

Nothing on this page supplies an amount, a rate or a scale, and nothing here is an average or a typical figure. Whether a value is money or points, and what the figure is, is typed by you and asserted by nobody.

Whether a half counts

The cells take whole numbers only. A half-done chore is either counted or not counted, and whichever you choose, the chart shows the counts that were typed so a reader can see what was added.

Who reads which column

The chart is written so that one column can be read on its own: a person's total is built out of their own cells and out of nothing else. Whether each column goes to the person it is about is yours.

What happens at the end of the week

This page does the arithmetic of one chart and stops there. Nothing here says what follows from a total, and nothing here records that anything was paid.

KWhat this page will not do

• It supplies no chore, no chore list, no chore-by-age table, no difficulty rating, no frequency and no duration, and it will not suggest a chore for anybody.
• It supplies no amount: no allowance, no pocket money, no pay rate, no points scale and no typical or average figure, and it makes no claim about what any chore is worth or what anyone else does.
• It gives no parenting, discipline, reward, punishment, incentive, motivation, screen-time or consequence advice, and it makes no claim about chores and responsibility, chores and character or chores and outcomes.
• It makes no developmental, educational, psychological, behavioural or health claim, and it says nothing about what anyone of any age can, should or should not do.
• It makes no safety claim about any chore and it never says that a chore is suitable, unsuitable or to be supervised.
• It makes no employment, wage, minimum-wage, tax, benefit or child-labour statement of any kind, and nothing on it is pay in any legal sense.
• It prints no verdict, grade, star, rank, league table or comparison between people, and it uses no colour, flag, icon or ordering that reads as approval or alarm about anybody. It counts cells and multiplies them; it judges nobody.
• It never adds a points value and a money value into one figure.
• It divides nothing: no total you type is shared out, no share is computed and no percentage and no ratio is printed anywhere on this page or in the workbook beside it.
• It asks for no name, no age, no date of birth, no school, no class, no year group, no photo and no date of any kind, and it sends nothing anywhere.
• It will not turn a remembered week's total into a grid, because one figure cannot say which cell each of its parts belonged to.
• It invents no family, person, carer, reviewer or testimonial, and there is no name on it at all: the only words on it that are anybody's are the labels you type, which are gone when the tab closes.