It was not the dreaded Covid-19, just El Presidente’s interpretation of it in a new board game entitled Danger Zone<\/em>. Genelle<\/strong> was our host for this meet, and she chose the new game for its topicality. There were only five players due to a last minute car problem for Nicole.<\/strong> Being a new game, it was bound to have a couple of teething troubles, but they were not serious. The most obvious issue is that it is not a long game and all agreed that it would be better as a backup rather than a main game. The placings were Louise, Rob, Tara<\/strong> in that order. The backup was Five Crowns<\/em>, the relatively recent game introduced by Genelle<\/strong> which is gaining in popularity. Placings were Louise, Genelle, Tara<\/strong> in a very close-fought game, there was a tie-break round to separate the first two placings finishing on 117 each with Tara only 5 points behind. I have a theory that females are genetically superior at the skill required to rapidly recognise the multitude of permutations and combinations of scoring patterns in Five Crowns<\/em> – but I could be wrong. It is certainly true for our particular sample of humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that Louise<\/strong> scored a double whammy; the 150 points added to her leading score has made it impossible for any player to catch up in July. She must be a favourite to win the competition at this rate. The rest of us can only hope for a form slump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the tea break in which El Prez had to retire to his residence to fill the jug (water supply was interrupted due to loo construction), Genelle<\/strong> introduced a quick round of Sequence<\/em> so we could get the feel of it. Thanks Genelle. I think it’s not far off being chosen on someone’s programme soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SBGA members exposed to Virus! It was not the dreaded Covid-19, just El Presidente’s interpretation of it in a new board game entitled Danger Zone. Genelle was our host for this meet, and she chose the new game for its topicality. There were only five players due to a last minute car problem for Nicole. … Continue reading “Meeting 29 June 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-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}