Definitions for "Pip count"
The total number of points (or pips) that are required to bear off all fifteen checkers, from the current position.
This is the total number of points needed to bear off all fifteen of your checkers at any given time during the game. To get a pip count you multiply the number of checkers on each point by the number of the point and add the totals together. At the start of the game your pip count is 167.
This is the minimum number of pip that need in order to bear of all of you checkers. The formula to get a pip count of you checkers is multiply the number of checkers on each point they are, by the number of the point and sum them together. At the beginning of the game the pip count is 167.