Tight at the Top
A pleasant Spring evening at Como saw seven of us gather to play Scattergories and old favourite Ride ’em Cowboy. We’re looking forward to more frequent appearances from Nicole if she returns from the A.C.T. in 2026.
As the headline says, there is only a 5-point gap between Matt and Tara at the top of the ladder (they both got two helpings of points tonight), so the November meet will be very interesting indeed, especially since Genelle has chosen a new game for the backup – Word Yahtzee. It’s related to “normal” Yahtzee, but the dice show letters rather than numbers, and like Scrabble, you make words from the dice using the letters which have point values on them, so some words are worth more than others. On our home page I’ve included a link in the name of the game to a site that explains the rules.
We had a roll-off for the minor placings in Scattergories – Genelle grabbed 2nd place by rolling “G” while Tara rolled “M”. It was won by Matt. Rob & Pete both WHP.
Below the top of the ladder there is about a 300 point gap to the next bunch who look like fighting it out for third place – this is the Louise/Rob/Genelle group. It looks like El Presidente, the 2024 Spooner, will be safe from that particular kitchen implement this year – it will be fought out between Peter and Nicole, who, even if she is not at the meeting, will still have a chance of avoiding the Spoon if Peter maintains his current form.