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25th February 2014

Thanks to people leaving, moving and catching lurgy we were really short of players – what a come down from a few weeks ago when we had two parallel games and were struggling to find chairs for everyone! For this reason, we abandoned the “Feature Game” (Sushi Draft!), as it plays better with more people and started out with a quick game of Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small. This is a smaller version of one of our more popular “worker placement” games, Agricola. In this game players are medieval farmers and the idea behind it is that players start with a small number of workers and carry out actions to build up their farm by fencing off pasture, buying animals, ploughing fields and growing corn and vegetables, all the time trying to make sure that workers have enough food. At the end of the game, players score for a range of things including how large their house is, and how big their family is.

In the smaller version, the focus is concentrated on the animals and players primary aim is to develop their stock with a secondary aim of expanding their property and making good use of the new land. In general, a lot of the basic rules are the same: You collect resources to build anything and your animals must be kept in an enclosed space (either a building, tied to a drinking trough or in a fenced pasture); any animals that you have more than two of will breed at the end of the round to give another. In contrast to its big brother, in this game there is no facility for increasing your family from the three you start with, there is very limited facility to upgrade your cottage, food is provided by some other means outside the game (clearly the workers are not going to starve), and minor/major improvements and occupations are provided by buildings. We had played this before (though not on a Tuesday), so we included four random buildings from the expansion, More Buildings Big and Small, specifically, the Ranch, Dog House, Rearing Station and Barn Floor Manufacturer.

Red started and began collecting horses, meanwhile, Blue built a Dog house that allowed her to keep one sheep in each unfenced pasture not adjacent to the forrest. Red then built a stall and some feeding troughs and started breeding horses and pigs while Blue tried to expand her property and built a Ranch as the flock of sheep carried on growing. In the dying stages of the game, Red managed to gather together enough sheep to avoid a penalty, but failed to completely cover his second expansion board; Blue had to allow a couple of animals to escape as she couldn’t find space to house them despite completely covering all three of her expansion boards. Blue ran out the winner with 51 points to Red’s 43, largely thanks to her large flock of sheep.

Next, we played Tobago, which is a Christmas game that we’d played before (though again, not on a Tuesday). This is a very beautiful game of treasure hunting on the island of Tobago. The board is divided into segments of different terrain, forest, beach, mountain, river etc. The idea is that players take it in turns to play cards that successively narrow down the location of the treasure. Thus, if the first player plays an “in the forest”card, the next might play a not “next to the river” card reducing the number of available spaces that can hold the treasure to those wooded spaces out of earshot of the river. Each player also has an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) that they can move instead of playing a card, and use to collect treasures. When an ATV arrives at the treasure space (or the treasure location is unambiguously revealed as a location where there is a vehicle), treasure cards are revealed to the players, with one per card per clue and an extra for the player who found the treasure. The cards are then pooled, shuffled and the top one turned over. The last player to place a clue card gets first choice of and can either choose to take the card, or pass (waiting for the next card), and let the next player choose. Each treasure card has a different value and as players who placed a lot of clue cards will have seen a lot of them, they are in a better position to decide whether it is a good idea to take a treasure or to pass, the more so since there are two “cursed treasures” which prevent any further treasures being revealed as well as causing players to discard their most valuable treasure card. Once the treasure has been distributed, amulets are distributed around the island; players who collect these can exchange them for an extra turn or use them to prevent treasure loss when the cursed treasure is revealed.

Red placed his ATV in the middle of the island next to a lake, so Blue placed hers on the other side of the water and immediately realised that Red had the optimal position. Red started laying clues, so Blue carefully stalked him matching every clue he placed. The first treasure was located in such a way that Blue could make it there first giving her the majority of treasure cards. Placing second meant that Blue had first choice and was able to keep the most lucrative treasures. This pattern was repeated for the first few treasures and Blue managed to get a nose in front. Red made tried to collect amulets so he could regain control of the game, but the final damage was done when the cursed treasure cards appeared and in both cases Blue collected more treasures than Red. As the game came to an end, Red had amassed a fine collection of amulets, but it was too late to make a real impact and Blue won, 73 points to 43.

The last game we played was Morels, which we’ve played before, but was new to one of the players. This is a fairly traditional set collecting game, but is a very nice rendition with lovely art-work and some hand made forage sticks provided by the designer. The idea is that you can collect the readily available mushrooms “at your feet” for free, or you can choose a less accessible fungi and pay the difference in forage sticks, the game’s currency. Once you have a set of three or more mushrooms you can cook them, and add cider or butter if appropriate to add extra points at the end of the game. Red started again as he hadn’t played it before and made a point of collecting some forage sticks by trading a pair of “Hen of the Woods” for six forage sticks early on. Meanwhile, Blue picked up a couple of basket cards and couple of night cards, but was unable to get a nice set worth cooking. Red picked up a couple of Porcini cards and Blue collected a couple of Morels and both players waited for the third card to make up the set. Red cooked a handful of Tree Ears flavoured with some cider and Honey Fungi, while blue cooked some Shitake with butter and some Lawyers’ Wigs. As the supply of fungi started to dwindle, Blue finally managed to pick up the third Morel and cook it, but Red took the last pan card preventing her from playing the Chanterelles. Despite this, Blue took the game by 38 Mushroom Varietal Points to 29, giving her a hat-trick of wins for the evening.

Learning Outcome: It is nice to come back from a loosing streak with a bit of a bang.

Next Meeting – 25th February 2014

Following the fire at the Jockey, our next meeting on Tuesday 25^th February will be held in a private house in Stanford. Please get in touch if you would like to come along and would like directions. As usual, we will be playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.

This week the “Feature Game” will be Sushi Draft!, which is a fast little card game picked up at Essen last year that is still waiting for an outing. The game is similar to 7 Wonders in that it is based on “card drafting”, however, the aim is far less complex. The story goes that the children are having a competition to see who can eat the most of one type of sushi at the family sushi feast. Mother, however, wants the children to eat a balanced diet, and will give pudding to the one who eats the most varied meal. Therefore, the aim of the game is to try to do both…!

And talking of sushi…

Jeff and and his business partner were opening a new sushi bar in The Strand. Since The Inns of Court, Lincoln’s Inn, Gray’s Inn and the Temple occupy much of the surrounding area they decided to make it exclusive to lawyers.

They called it “Sosumi”.

11th February 2014

One of our regulars is moving pastures new, so as this was probably her last week, we played games she said she liked. We started off with Parade, which is a little card game with an Alice in Wonderland theme where you add cards to a row, but the cards that you place dictate what cards you pick up. In general, cards score their face value and the object of the game is to have the lowest score, however, for the person who has the most of a colour, that colour scores only one for each card. So, the game starts with everyone trying to minimise what they pick up and then, once the writing is on the wall, everyone scrabbles to pick up as more cards than everyone else. We first played it a few weeks ago and our leaver came second by just one point, so this had an element of a re-match. The winner from last time was quickly forced out of the running and ended up with twenty-eight points, and the battle was between our leaver and the player who came last in the previous game. Sadly, our leaver once again finished in second place with twenty points after being forced to pick up a couple of tens, but, with fourteen points, the win went to someone who claims he always looses “little games”.

Next we started setting up the “Feature Game” which was Keyflower with the Farmers expansion and then a couple more people arrived. Keyflower is one of our most played games, but there is one player who usually wins, so the rest of us made a point of ensuring that Green didn’t have it all his own way this time. Like the last time we played with the expansion, we used all the farming tiles. Winter tiles were doled out and the rules were passed round as people checked and double checked what they had. Spring tiles were then revealed and Red and Blue went for the sheep tiles. Red and White won them, but Blue had placed a couple of workers on the tiles before the end of the round giving her a breeding pair. By the end of the summer both Red and Blue had a large flock of sheep and it was only then that Blue dissolved into fits of giggles as she realised that sheep weren’t pink and she had been collecting the wrong animal…

Meanwhile, Green had been acquiring resources, Yellow had been trading tiles getting two for one on each occasion, and White had been busy building up a healthy stock of green meeples and pigs. In the last round, the winter tiles were revealed. The Hillside tile came out and it suddenly became apparent why Green had such a strange shaped village, so Yellow took it off him. The only other animal tile that came out was the cow tile which Blue made a play for to try to redeem her earlier spell of colour blindness. Red pointed out a couple of turns in that it was worth a lot and promptly started to bid for it too. In revenge for “stealing” his Hillside, Green took the Scribe which rewards players for collections of skill tiles, so Yellow took the Windmill which rewards players for collecting resources…

Despite Red’s efforts, Blue managed to sneak under the radar and nabbed the Keythedral (which is worth twelve points). The collective efforts of Yellow, White and Red had succeeded in preventing Green from winning. However, despite having a chronic shortage of meeples throughout (due to squandering them on sheep in the first two seasons) and therefore a very small village, and almost no points from anything else, the combination of a heard of cows, the Keythedral and the damage the other players had done to each other, meant Blue finished with seventy-one points, seven ahead of Yellow in second and twelve ahead of Red in her last, quite epic game with us.

Learning Outcome: Beef is very nourishing!

Next Meeting – 11th February 2014

Following the fire at the Jockey, our next meeting on Tuesday 11^th February will be held in a private house in Stanford. Please get in touch if you would like to come along and would like directions. As usual, we will be playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.

One of our regulars is moving to pastures new and this will probably be her last week. So, we have decided to make “Feature Game” one of her favourites, Keyflower. We have played it quite a bit, but she missed out on the Farmers expansion which was an interesting addition, so we may include that too, however, if she can’t make it, we may play something completely different…

And talking of farmers…

Jeff was a small-town country farmer with a watermelon patch. Unfortunately, he found that some of the local kids had been helping themselves to his prized watermelons. After some thought, Jeff came up with a way to discourage this profit-eating situation and he put up a sign that said, “WARNING! ONE OF THESE WATERMELONS CONTAINS CYANIDE!”

Jeff smiled smugly to himself the next evening as he watched the kids run off without eating any of his melons. A couple of days later, Jeff returned to the watermelon patch to find that the sign was still having its desired effect and discover that none of the watermelons had been eaten. However, there was now a new sign that said, “NOW THERE ARE TWO!”

28th January 2014

This week was memorable for a number of reasons. Firstly, the non-playing member of the group, had been to the vet for the first time in about fifteen years and she didn’t like what they did to her (in fairness, she started it by taking a chunk out of the vet, but it is certain both she and the vet won’t forget the day quickly). Secondly, nearly every current member turned up, the first time this had happened since the fire at the Jockey, and with the added bonus of a new member, we were just a bit pushed for space. It is a very nice problem to have though, especially since this time last year we were really struggling.

People arrived gradually, so we started with our “Feature Game”, the filler Zooloretto: The Dice Game. This is closely related to the tile laying game, Zooloretto, which we’ve played before. Both use the “Coloretto mechanism” which is a variant of the “I divide, you choose” mechanism that children sometimes use when sharing a cake. Basically, the idea is that players take it in turns to roll dice (or draw tiles or cards depending on the game) and choose which “truck” to place them in. When they see a truck they like, they can choose to take the contents instead of rolling (then they sit out of the rest of the round). In the case of the dice version, players are collecting custom animal dice; the idea is to have as many as possible up to a given limit and exceeding the maximum incurs a penalty. The first two people to arrive were about half way through when two more turned up and joined in for a second game.

After the second game we had a quick game of “extend the table, rearrange the furniture and hunt for extra chairs” and were just finishing as the last group arrived. After some discussion, we decided to split the group into two and the first group played Montego Bay. This is a game that we played last year and all felt that it was quite enjoyable, so we decided to give it another outing. In summary, players control two figures, a large docker and a small docker who are travelling round the warehouses collecting barrels of rum to place on ships before they sail. There are two aspects to the game, the first is the priority given to filling boats because, when a boat sails, the player with the largest number of barrels on board scores the most points. Secondly, everyone chooses how far to move their dockers simultaneously at the start of the round, however, players take their turns in a prearranged order which leads to an interesting juxtaposition of chaos and “double-think”. In this game, Orange came back from the dead with optimal use of “Lazy Jack” to win by four points.

Meanwhile, the second group played 7 Wonders, which we played at New Year. Played in three rounds, this is a card drafting game where players take one card from their hand and then pass the rest on, then repeatedly do the same with the cards they receive until there are none left. The idea of the game is to build an civilisation and complete their “wonder”. For the last game there were seven of us and it was over-long and completely disorganised chaos. This time there was a much more manageable number and it worked much, much better. One player had played it many times before and it showed in the score with him winning with fifty-two points, five ahead of second place. The other group were only about halfway through their game though, so that gave an opportunity for a rematch. Revenge was duly served as the game finished with the winner of the second game fifteen points clear of a tight pack which included the winner of the first game.

For the last game we got back together as a large group and finished with a game of Saboteur. We played this nearly a year ago, but again didn’t have an optimal number of players. This time, with more than twice as many, the game played much, much better. The idea is that players are digging for gold by laying cards to form tunnels. Everyone is either a “Dwarf” or a “Saboteur” and at the end of the game, points are given to the Dwarves if they extend the tunnel to find the gold, and Saboteurs if they succeed in stalling the Dwarves so much that they fail. In addition to extending tunnel network, players can also play cards that inhibit the digging ability of others, or alternatively remove an impediment someone else has played. The first game everyone was watching our “Habitual Saboteur” and waiting for him to do something suspicious, meanwhile, another player moaned about the nature of his hand, and kept discarding cards and everyone else seemed to get on with digging. The Dwarves were about halfway there when one player declared she was a Saboteur and played a very obstructive card and immediately received a hail-storm of broken tool cards. It was only after the Dwarves had run out of cards that the “discarder” showed his true colours as a Saboteur and the Habitual Saboteur wasn’t (this time).

In the second round, our Habitual Saboteur made up for his good behaviour in the first round and teamed up with the Saboteur Queen. It looked like the dwarves might just make it when another Saboteur jumped out of the shadows throwing broken tools at all the Dwarves and putting the gold definitively beyond their reach. Going into the final round, the Saboteur Queen (who ended up obstructing in all three rounds) had what was thought to be an unassailable lead with six points to a maximum of three elsewhere and a third failure for the Dwarves would have given her a landslide victory. However, this time she only had the one team-mate which made it much more difficult for her to obstruct the tunnellers and, in due course, it was the Habitual Saboteur (who once again, surprisingly, wasn’t) who laid the final card and found the gold. He managed to take a total of four points from the last round and just pipped the Saboteur Queen to the win.

Learning Outcome: Don’t believe anyone when you know there is a Saboteur in your midst!

Next Meeting – 28th January 2014

Following the fire at the Jockey, our next meeting on Tuesday 28^th January will be held in a private house in Stanford. Please get in touch if you would like to come along and would like directions. As usual, we will be playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.

This week the “Feature Game” will be Zooloretto: The Dice Game, which is a quicker, dice version of the tile laying game, Zooloretto, which we’ve played before. In both games players are zoo owners and the aim is to collect large sets of animals and make their zoo profitable, but too many animals become difficult to store…

And talking of zoos…

Jeff and his small son were standing in front of the tiger’s cage at the zoo. Jeff was explaining to the little boy how
ferocious and strong tigers are and junior was taking it all in with a serious expression.

“Dad,” the boy said finally, “If the tiger got out of his cage and ate you up …”

“Yes, son?” Jeff said expectantly.

“…What bus should I take home?” the boy finished.

14th January 2014

As we weren’t too sure about who was coming it took a while to get going, but first up, we decided to play our “Feature Game”, Parade. This is a set collecting card game with an Alice in Wonderland theme. Basically, there is a “parade” of characters in the form of a row of cards. Players take it in turns to add a card from their hand to the parade and depending on the number and colour of the card they play, they then remove cards from the parade and place them in suits in front of them. So, if a player places a red five, the five most recently played cards are “protected” and the player takes all the red cards and any cards numbered five or lower and places them in their area. The aim of the game is to finish with the lowest accumulated total. The clever part is the scoring: if a player has the most cards of a given colour, all the cards score one regardless of the face value; all the remaining cards score their full value. So, a set of high scoring cards can suddenly score a lot less because that player has the largest number of cards in that suit. The other key part is that at the end of the game, each player adds two cards from their hand to their sets on the table. Thus, the last two cards can have a dramatic effect on the game as they can change who has the majority in the colour suits and if you get it wrong it can have a catastrophic effect on your end score. Two players started off well, picking up only zeros and ones, while another was forced to pick up a few high cards straight away so decided to try to collect the most cards in these suits. He was doing a good job when the everyone else was forced into taking a couple of high scoring cards each and started competing. Despite initial appearances, the game was very tight, with the winner just one ahead of second with sixteen points, and slightly different card choices at the end could have completely changed the placings.

Next, we decided to play Agricola. This is one of our more popular games and we had just finished setting up when one of the players was called away with boiler trouble. We decided to leave it for another day and play Flash Point: Fire Rescue instead. This is a cooperative game where players take on the roles of fire-fighters trying to rescue people from a burning building. Players take it in turns to carry out actions and then dice are rolled to spread the fire. The addition of dice makes the game less predicatable than in some of the other cooperative games we’ve played where cards are used to simulate impending doom. The use of dice also means that there isn’t the same “ticking clock” that there is with cards: if you can stay on top of the fire, you can take as long as you like to get people out, on the other hand, if the fire gets out of control, it spreads faster and faster increasing the risk to the casualties and increasing the chance of explosions which cause damage to the building and suddenly the building collapses and everyone dies.

Since we had a player who was new to the game, we played Veteran level (three explosions, three hotspots and four hazardous materials) and used the reverse side of the base game board. We divided our labour so we had half the team fighting the fire and the other half rescuing people. There was a lot of fire in the centre of the board down the corridor, so Red went in first as the CAFS fire-fighter. Meanwhile, Blue entered via the side door as the Rescue Specialist and quickly saved the first casualty before riding the ambulance round to the other side and following Red in to rescue a couple more. Red dealt with the recurrent smoke in the shower cubicle while Blue enlarged the hole in a damaged wall and rescued a couple more. One of the new Points of Interest was placed rather unfortunately next to fire and we didn’thave time to deal with them before an explosion meant we had our first victim of the flames. Despite the loss, however, we had soon rescued the required seven people. Somehow, leaving casualties in a burning house seems wrong, so we continued to try to rescue everyone else. All the Points of Interest were now on the far side of the board, so the Rescue Specialist rode round the building in the ambulance and made a new more convenient entrance. Red helped reveal which of the Points of Interest were real people and then together Blue and Red carried the last two people out leaving only one Point of Interest behind, which was known to be a false alarm.

Learning Outcome: Where there’s smoke, fire will surely follow…

Next Meeting – 14th January 2014

Following the fire at the Jockey, our next meeting on Tuesday 14^th January will be held in a private house in Stanford. Please get in touch if you would like to come along and would like directions. As usual, we will be playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.

This week the “Feature Game” will be Parade, which is a set collecting card game with an Alice in Wonderland theme.

And talking of Wonderland…

The White Rabbit was running happily through the Wonderland woods when he came across the Dodo smoking a cigarette. He ran up the Dodo and said, “Hey, Dodo, you shouldn’t do that. Think of your health. You should come running in the woods instead!” The Dodo looked at the White Rabbit, looked at his fag, caughed, shrugged his shoulders, tossed the cigarette over his shoulder and ran off through the wood with the White Rabbit.

After a while the Dodo and the White Rabbit came across a the Cheshire Cat rolling a joint. The White Rabbit ran up the Cheshire Cat and said, “Hey, Cheshire Cat, you shouldn’t do that. Think of your health. You should come running in the woods instead!” The Cheshire Cat looked at the White Rabbit and the Dodo, looked at the spliff, shrugged his shoulders, tossed the joint over his shoulder and ran off through the wood with the White Rabbit and the Dodo.

After a while they came across a the Mad Hatter setting up a line of Coke. The White Rabbit said, “Oh, Mad Hatter, you really shouldn’t do that. You should come running with us in the wood. It is much better for you.” The Mad Hatter looked at the White Rabbit looked at the line of Charlie, shrugged his shoulders, then ran off through the wood with the White Rabbit, Dodo, and Cheshire Cat.

After a while they came across a the Alice filling a syringe with heroin. The White Rabbit said, “Oh, Alice, you really shouldn’t do that. You should come running with us in the wood. It is much better for you.” Alice looked at the White Rabbit then at the syringe, shrugged her shoulders, then ran off through the wood with the White Rabbit, Dodo, Cheshire Cat and Mad Hatter.

After a while they came across the Queen of Hearts drinking her way through a magnum of Champagne. The White Rabbit ran up to the Queen and said, “Your Majesty, you really shouldn’t do that.” The Queen immediately jumped up and starts beating the White Rabbit mercilessly with her mace shrieking “Off with his head!”. Alice grabed the Queen and pulled her off the White Rabbit and said, “Your Majesty! What are you doing?!?!” The Queen gets one more blow in and says, “That Rabbit! He always makes me run around the damn woods when he’s on Ecstasy!”

31st December 2013

The evening started with a quick two player game of “extend the table and try to find space for it”. Just as we were finishing, one of our regulars arrived with his family, including his dinosaur-pyjama-clad four year old – unquestionably the youngest GOAT to date!

As planned, we started off with our “Feature Game”, the gorgeous, dexterity car-race, PitchCar. The idea of this game is that, starting with the player at the front of the field in each round, players take it in turns to flick their small wooden car round the custom-made circuit. Since the game was new to so many of the players, we started out with a simple track with just one jump (from the first expansion) and smooth corners (from the second expansion). Despite their tender years, Black and Yellow demonstrated a remarkable aptitude, and Black ran in the easy winner.

The first game was such a hit that when three more people arrived, we built a second, slightly more complex track while pizzas were “prepped”. In this game, Blue (played by one of the new arrivals), quickly got half a lap ahead and managed to maintain his lead until the end. This was followed by a game of “hunt for enough chairs” by which time, the first of the pizzas were ready. By this time, despite it being two hours past his bedtime, “dinoGOAT” was still keen to play on, however, we managed to persuade him (with the aid of a mince pie) that it was bedtime and we’d play Dinosaur Race another time.

That left us with just enough people to give the first of our “Christmas Games” an outing. Waldschattenspiel is not, as you might think, a game about what bears do in the woods. It is actually a really unusual game, played in the dark, where one player (the designated adult!) operates a candle and the others are little dwarf meeples with felt hats. The idea is that that wooden trees cast shadows, and the dwarves, who start the game hiding in the woods, have to meet up together behind the same tree. The snag is that when they move, they must do so without being illuminated by the candle. Any photophobic dwarves caught in the light become “frozen” and are unable to move until they are rescued by other dwarves. The dwarves started out badly when Green got trapped, and then frozen, very early on. The rest of the dwarves managed to meet up, but in a failure of strategy, tried to rescue Green as a group. When they all got trapped and only Red was able to escape, the writing was on the wall and the Candle scored a win on the next move.

Next up was the second of our Christmas Games, 7 Wonders. This is a card drafting game, where each person picks one card from their hand to play, then passes their remaining cards on to the next player. The aim of the game is to build your civilisation by developing your science and technology and building one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. We played the ‘A’ side and with seven players, most of whom had never played it before, there was a lot of chaos, and the game was a bit of a mystery to a lot of us. However, the game was won by one of the new players, who, as well as successfully building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, also had a strong army and had a well developed civilisation.

A couple more players left and the rest of us played with the tower from Amerigo while we decided what the next game should be. Enticing though it was, it only played four, so, after much deliberation, we decided to play Dixit.

This is a clever, light card game, where the “active player” secretly chooses a card and uses a sound, word, phrase or sentence to describe it. The other players all choose the best card from their hand to match the sentence and secretly hand them to the active player who shuffles the cards and displays them to everyone. The players then try to guess which card was played by the active player with points being awarded for choosing correctly, having your card chosen by another player, and, as the active player, for being ambiguous enough to ensure that some players, but not all, chose their card. The artwork by Marie Cardouat is wonderfully surreal and the game produced some equally peculiar clues in what ended up as a close game. Blue took an early lead, but it couldn’t last and, everyone else closed, pausing for just a brief interlude to sing Auld Lang Syne and watch fireworks (it was raining, so we “wimped out” of setting off our own and just admired everyone else’s from the warm; one group were especially obliging and set off some very nice ones just outside the window!). White snuck ahead of Blue with the last point of the game, and took the first win of 2014 adding it to her last win of 2013. This was in contrast to Red who lost both the last game of 2013 and the first game of 2014!

Learning Outcome: Cold pizza isn’t that bad after all!

Next Meeting – 31st December 2013

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 31^st December and, as it is New Year’s Eve will be a bit of a party with pizza and nibbles. Following the fire at the Jockey, the party will be held in a private house in Stanford. Please get in touch if you would like to come along so we know how much pizza to make.

The plan is to start off early with the “Feature Game”, which, like last year, will be the gorgeous, dexterity car-racing game, PitchCar. Then we will have something to eat, rearrange the tables and play something a little longer and maybe set off some fireworks at midnight.

And talking of New Year…

The New Year’s Eve party had turned into a regular marathon with numerous guests coming and going.

At one point, a man knocked on the door, was greeted heartily although no one knew who he was, and was led to the bar in the basement. He sat there happily for a couple of hours before a strange light dawned on his face.

“You know,” he confided to his host, “I wasn’t even invited to this party. I just came over to tell you that some of your guests’ cars are blocking my driveway.”

The guest paused a moment and then continued, “My wife’s been sitting out in the car waiting for me to get them moved…”

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