New to obj-C and Cocoa here

I'm trying to just increment a variable in a method and, being used to C++, I want to just use the terminology of variable++, but that doesn't work on an NSNumber, so I've come up with

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> player1Points = [NSNumber numberWithInt: ([ player1Points intValue ] + 1) ];
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I am tempted to just redeclare player1Points as an int in the header, but I want to keep @synthesize and @property so that I don't have to write get and set routines.

Is there an easier way to write this line of code?