On a cool but somewhat windy evening at Como, we had a pleasant evening of gaming despite the absence of the chosen main game. It was to have been Readers Digest Word Power<\/em> which we think was last seen at Nicole<\/strong>‘s where there was a discussion in which El Prez<\/strong> thought it had previously been written off as unsuitable for our requirements, but El Trez<\/strong> had no recollection of that fact, so I elected to inspect the rules to find out what it was about. Those rules are still on my desk, have been scanned into my computer, and have been published here<\/a> on the SBGA website. Meanwhile, the game itself has vanished! It seems that Nicole<\/strong>, not realising that it was under serious consideration for our club, may have donated it somewhere. Whoever has it now will be wondering what the rules are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The replacement on the night was the original old version of Word Power<\/em> which Rob<\/strong> won in a close finish just ahead of Genelle<\/strong>, followed a couple of moves later by Louise<\/strong>. The backup game was Uno Flip<\/em>, also won by El Trez by sheer luck rather than talent, the cards were kind, unlike poor Louise who at one point had to pick up about a quarter of the pack in one of those “dark side” flip penalties. So Rob<\/strong> has now made up for his WHP in January, but sadly Wayne<\/strong> has yet to overcome his WHP demon, scoring the second one for the year. Tara<\/strong> has now had three third placings out of four games for 2020, and in this competition, that’s only enough to get you just ahead of the Wooden Spooner <\/strong>on zero. Remember – it is early days, too early for anyone to lose hope, and too early for anyone to think the trophy is already in the bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El trez gets double whammy, catches the leader – new game goes missing. On a cool but somewhat windy evening at Como, we had a pleasant evening of gaming despite the absence of the chosen main game. It was to have been Readers Digest Word Power which we think was last seen at Nicole‘s where … Continue reading “Meeting 3 February 2020”<\/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-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}