Finally! Pictionary fans get to play
It was a lovely evening at Tara’s – the rain had stopped, but you could still hear the grass growing! Everybody got some points because it was a teams event (pairs), and with two absentees, Louise and Ross, that left 3 teams for 3 placings. Tara on home turf playing one of her favourites, Pictionary, was on fire, she took her team (me) to the lead early and stayed there. I must have said “you’re good at this!” at least 5 times. At the last square there was no mucking about – quickly answer an “all play” and take home the points, thank you very much. There was at least one serendipitous point for the winners – Tara drew a solid rectangular object, and while waiting for further clues Rob mumbled “rectangular prism” to give it its correct mathematical title, thus accidentally saying the required answer of “prism”. The Steve/Genelle team made a creditable effort, at one point catching up to the leaders, but then got left behind again. The Wayne/Nicole team took quite a while to move off the Start square and were never in the running. At one point when the item to be identified was “penguin”, Wayne rubbished Nicole’s perfect little drawing of a “happy feet” penguin, something at which she is expert, thus revealing the weakest link in that team. We did adopt a supplementary house rule for Pictionary: each player is allowed ONE pass/redraw when encountering a word totally unfamiliar to them.
The backup was Billionaire! also won by Tara. A new record of loss must have been set by Genelle – In 6 deals she was caught with either the Taxman or the Billionaire 4 times, and once ended up with both of them! That’s $240,000,000 penalty points and no winnings at all. Could it be that Mother Theresa was too nice to foist her penalty cards on another player?
That double dose of points for Tara has put her at the top of the table, overtaking Louise, Wayne and Nicole. Rob’s double points (won main, 2nd in backup) has let him overtake 4 players to grab 2nd spot on the ladder. Louise’s absence has cost her dearly – dropping from 3rd to 6th on the table.