It was a wet and chilly evening at Como, but we were cosy enough with the central heating set at 22\u00b0C, and thankfully Daisy the Beagle decided there was nothing edible at the table so took herself off to bed. The only absentee was Nicole<\/strong> – still in the A.C.T. Trez gets the Triv It was a wet and chilly evening at Como, but we were cosy enough with the central heating set at 22\u00b0C, and thankfully Daisy the Beagle decided there was nothing edible at the table so took herself off to bed. The only absentee was Nicole – still in the A.C.T.There was … Continue reading “Meeting 26 May 2025”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
There was no surprise that El Trez <\/strong>won his favourite – Trivial Pursuit<\/em> – but only with a late run after trailing Matt<\/strong> and Genelle<\/strong> for most of the game. We played the shortened version of TP<\/em> in which every correct answer wins a “cheese”, but with a compromise that only the first four cheeses can be easily grabbed in that way – the last two must be gained in the conventional way by answering a question while on a main cheese location. It came down to a sudden death showdown between Trez<\/strong> and Genelle<\/strong>, both sitting with six cheeses on the centre of the board. There was a degree of dice luck involved in the Trez win – he happened to roll a six immediately after gaining his 6th cheese which put him on the centre with Genelle <\/strong>at precisely the right time. It could have taken several turns to land on that spot by which time Genelle would have won and gone home. Over all Genelle<\/strong> did quite well in winning two helpings of points and advancing from last up to equal 4th with Louise<\/strong>. Tara<\/strong> (who hates Trivia) and Matt<\/strong> are still more than 100 points clear of the rest of us, but the gap between them has narrowed from 50 down to 35 points. Trez<\/strong> missed an important cheese at one point by failing to remember the name of the band that played “Zombie”, despite having rehearsed and played that song several times at his weekly Jam night.
The backup game was Pass the Bomb<\/em> which, due to the limited time available, resulted in several tied scores with the minor placings being decided by dice-off<\/em> after the win by Genelle<\/strong>. It became evident that Pete<\/strong> does not perform well under the pressure of holding a ticking bomb and being watched by the rest of us, in fact I think he said at one point “I’m going to be off sick next time someone picks this game”. Pete <\/strong>and Wayne <\/strong>were this month’s WHP <\/em>victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"