On a cool clear night mid-winter at Tara<\/strong>‘s place there were six of us. Peter<\/strong> was still out of the country, and Louise<\/strong> was not well and stayed home. It was nice to see the return of Nicole<\/strong>, but she retired just before game completion also not feeling well. We hope you both feel better soon. There was good news from Nicole<\/strong> who announced she would be moving back to Sydney from the A.C.T. early in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tara<\/strong>‘s main game choice Phase 10<\/em> was a bit daunting at first due to its unfamiliarity, but Tara<\/strong> did a good job of explaining the rules and we soon got into the swing of it. Even El Prez <\/strong>managed reasonably well considering the game’s similarity to Five Crowns<\/em> which he does not enjoy at all. Tara<\/strong> won by a large margin with Rob<\/strong> 2nd and Genelle<\/strong> 3rd. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Phase 10 & Yahtzee On a cool clear night mid-winter at Tara‘s place there were six of us. Peter was still out of the country, and Louise was not well and stayed home. It was nice to see the return of Nicole, but she retired just before game completion also not feeling well. We hope … Continue reading “Meeting 28 July 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-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","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=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The old favourite Yahtzee<\/em> was the backup – scored on our own “Nicole enhanced” score sheets and won by Genelle<\/strong> with Matt<\/strong> 2nd and Tara<\/strong> 3rd.
So both Tara<\/strong> and Genelle<\/strong> got two helpings of points with Nicole<\/strong> and Wayne<\/strong> WHP<\/em>. It was interesting to see the game that Matt<\/strong> dug out of his collection thinking it was an old edition of Yahtzee<\/em> – it turned out to be Word Yahtzee<\/em>. It looks very similar to the normal game but with seven dice containing letters and other symbols instead of numbers. Could it be worth exploring for a future SBGA appearance?
Tara <\/strong>has now increased her competition lead with 110 points won tonight, now 170 points clear of Matt<\/strong>, then a 50 point gap to Genelle<\/strong> and Louise<\/strong> tied on 250. Nicole<\/strong> and Wayne<\/strong> are also tied on 110. Pete<\/strong> is only 10 points down from them in Spoon<\/em> territory, so not a great gap to get over to avoid that Spoon<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n