You really need to try to make your question as clear as possible - I don't really know what you're asking, but here's _my_ guess. You want to know how to sort the %games hash by the "count" part of the value. The only way I know of to sort by part of the value is to get the part(s) of the value you want to sort by, and create a new hash where the "sort" part of the value is the key, and the value is the whole value - something like this: 
#!C:\Perl\bin

use strict;

my %games = (
                'john' => '11::Boston vs. Orlando::2004-01-15',
                'beth' => '20::Minesota vs. New York::2004-01-15',
                'bob'  => '5::San Antonio vs. Pittsburgh::2004-01-13'
);

my %sorted_on_count_hash = ();

while (my($person,$value) = each %games) {
   my ($count,$game,$date) = split /::/, $value;
   my $sorted_key = sprintf("%04d", $count); # Zero fill count
                                             # so that numeric
                                             # part of key is same
                                             # length, so that sort
                                             # is correct based on
                                             # count.
   $sorted_key .= $person; # add person to key to make key unique
                           # for that person
   $sorted_on_count_hash{$sorted_key} = { "count" => $count,
                                          "game"  => $game,
                                          "date"  => $date
   };
}

my %sorted_on_count_hash = ();

foreach my $key (sort keys %sorted_on_count_hash) {
   print "count=[$sorted_on_count_hash{$key}{'count'}], " .
         "game=[$sorted_on_count_hash{$key}{'game'}], " .
         "date=[$sorted_on_count_hash{$key}{'date'}]\n";
}

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and here is the output: 
------------------------------------------------------
count=[5], game=[San Antonio vs. Pittsburgh], date=[2004-01-13]
count=[11], game=[Boston vs. Orlando], date=[2004-01-15]
count=[20], game=[Minesota vs. New York], date=[2004-01-15]
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HTH.

In reply to Re: Sorting on a split hash value by hmerrill
in thread Sorting on a split hash value by Anonymous Monk

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