{"id":1872,"date":"2026-08-17T23:39:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2026-08-17T23:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:39:43","slug":"meeting-17-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/meeting-17-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting 17 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Two new games in one sitting!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mid winter at Como and a bit wet too, but we were all present and planning one new game introduced by <strong>Valerie<\/strong> plus an old favourite, but it turned to be two new games introduced by <strong>Valerie<\/strong>. The first (main) game was <em>Flip 7<\/em> &#8211; a card game in which one decides to try for more points or sit with what you&#8217;ve got. The risk of trying for more points by getting the dealer to &#8220;hit me&#8221; is that you go busted and get no points if you get two cards with the same point value. The values go from 0-12 with higher point cards being more numerous. There are interesting additional cards that add to the game. It went over quite well and is now in the official games list.<br>The second game was scheduled to be <em>Yahtzee<\/em>, and we had beautifully decorated score sheets (thanks <strong>Nicole<\/strong>) ready to go, but alas, no dice!  Before the panic began to spread <strong>Val<\/strong> reached into her bag and brought out her plan B, another new game called <em>Last Word<\/em>.  It took a bit longer to learn and was not as well received as <em>Flip 7<\/em>, in fact <strong>El Prez<\/strong> threw in the towel and quit shortly before it ended.  It hasn&#8217;t made it into the official list (yet).<br>So, looking at the graph, it seems <strong>Tara <\/strong>is making steady progress up the ladder &#8211; she has had only one <em>WHP<\/em> back in February.  <strong>Louise<\/strong> and <strong>Rob <\/strong>are alternating between 2nd and 3rd places about 85 points below <strong>Tara<\/strong>, then there is a gap of about 150 points to the bunch &#8211; <strong>Matt<\/strong>, <strong>Nicole<\/strong>, <strong>Wayne <\/strong>and <strong>Peter<\/strong>.  At the bottom of the ladder after a 75 point gap is <strong>Val<\/strong>, although it looks like she is finally starting an upward trend with her 50 points won tonight in <em>Flip 7 <\/em>&#8211; I still think <strong>Val<\/strong> could be a force to watch, maybe 2027 will be her year.  The biggest improver is of course <strong>Nicole<\/strong> with her win tonight, overtaking two opponents and almost reaching 4th place, being only 5 points below <strong>Matt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new games in one sitting! Mid winter at Como and a bit wet too, but we were all present and planning one new game introduced by Valerie plus an old favourite, but it turned to be two new games introduced by Valerie. The first (main) game was Flip 7 &#8211; a card game in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/meeting-17-august-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meeting 17 August 2026&#8221;<\/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-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","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=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}