After a couple of abortive attempts at getting them to stay within five feet of a duvet, I abandoned all pretence of authority and let them roam freely downstairs. While Andrew and I worked, they broke out Shopping List, a game of memorising items that are then placed face-down - the aim being to fill your trolley first, matching your shopping list.
I was just thinking how wonderful it was that they could play so serenely this way when Stan took his victory a little too crowingly and Joe slapped him in the face. This is plainly out of the bounds of GNN behaviour, and I decided enough was enough, marching them both (Stanley more sympathetically) upstairs.
By this time it was nine and I certainly couldn't face more work, so we played Cube Quest. I went for one of the defensive formations displayed on the Cube Quest facebook page and, like the Peppa Defence, it worked well. Andrew had a more lassez faire attitude to combat - or more chivalrous maybe. But Cube Quest does not reward chivalry and I won both games.
Game, formation and image courtesy Cube Quest
We polished off an eventful evening with 7 Wonders, a game that needs no introduction - except to Sally, who arrived home halfway through and was seemingly taken with it. Probably because she wasn't being asked to play.
I wasn't best pleased getting the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, a wonder which has been distinctly unwonderful before with its privilige of building discarded cards. But I left these as late as possible and fate smiled on me with the arrival of Dirk's cards, leading to a pretty comfortable win:
Sam 60
Andrew 43
Dirk 31
Then we didn't play Biblios! I waved the game theoretically under Andrew's nose, but he was having none of it.
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