Jordan Thomas Returns with a Splash
It was a beautiful cloudless autumn night as we filed into the residents’ common room at Wayne‘s place. His son Jordan had eventually sorted out his domestic infestation issues and finally met everyone (except Gill who couldn’t make it). The splash came about halfway through the main game as Wayne knocked over an almost full glass of juice – most of it landing on Jordan – miraculously missing his phone and wallet that were on the table.
The main event was Gallop – an old favourite with the huge racetrack board, the silk-clad jockeys on their legendary mounts, and Mark in the Tote banker’s cap. Tara won it by a huge margin, finishing with almost eight times as much cash as the nearest rival Jordan, who was closely followed by Rob in 3rd place. Not content with blasting everyone off the track, Tara then won the backup Scattergories convincingly with Genelle in 2nd place. There was a draw for 3rd, so Jordan and Rob had the first ever “alpha-off” tie breaker – a roll of the Scattergories alphabet ball to see who got closest to A. Rob won the 10 point 3rd place. Only four of us scored points, leaving both Louise and Mark on WHP.
Have a look at the progressive score graph, and it’s obvious who is the big improver – Tara, overtaking three other gamers and now within a backup game win of reaching the top. Wayne is still to rise up from the murk at the bottom, then there are four people around 50-60 with three of them tied on 50 points, then a 90 point gap to the top three.