{"id":458,"date":"2019-07-08T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/?p=458"},"modified":"2019-11-19T00:45:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:45:08","slug":"meeting-8-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/meeting-8-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting 8 July 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Louise continues winning streak<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main game was host<strong> Rob<\/strong>&#8216;s favourite &#8211; <em>Trivial Pursuit<\/em>, but he only just scraped into 3rd place in a double quiz-off against <strong>Tara<\/strong>, and then only because the final question was Beatles related.  Everyone agreed that the questions seemed harder than usual.  We adopted a new playing method in an effort to avoid the &#8220;3 teams plus one solo&#8221; that occurs when an odd number attend. Rather than one playing solo (which is unpopular with some), at Louise&#8217;s suggestion we opted to play individually, but with the rules altered to the shorter version of the game by awarding a &#8220;cheese&#8221; every time a correct answer is scored.<br><strong>Louise<\/strong> continued her winning streak after her double whammy of June by winning <em>Trivial<\/em>, so she is now further ahead &#8211; increasing her 15 point lead by 100 points.  <strong>Genelle<\/strong> came 2nd, and <strong>Tara<\/strong> made up for being quizzed out of the placings in <em>Trivial<\/em> by winning <em>Uno Flip<\/em>. <strong>Louise<\/strong> got another helping of points by coming 2nd in <em>Uno<\/em>, and <strong>Mark<\/strong> finally scored a few points by coming 3rd in <em>Uno<\/em>.  This brings him back to where he was in May before the ignominious shirt penalty of June took 10 points off his score.  He was not a happy camper in <em>Trivial<\/em>, failing miserably in the cheese department due to sheer bad luck.  <strong>Louise<\/strong> on the other hand remarked it was the most enjoyable game of <em>TP<\/em> she had ever had.  WHP victims tonight were <strong>Nicole<\/strong> and <strong>Wayne<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise continues winning streak The main game was host Rob&#8216;s favourite &#8211; Trivial Pursuit, but he only just scraped into 3rd place in a double quiz-off against Tara, and then only because the final question was Beatles related. Everyone agreed that the questions seemed harder than usual. We adopted a new playing method in an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/meeting-8-july-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meeting 8 July 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","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=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}