However the mood was briefly tense when Quentin ventured to suggest Joe had too many games. If Joe employed a pianist on these nights to keep the mood light, he would have stopped playing at this point. But thankfully the tension passed with Joe breaking out Hamburgum for himself, Adam and Steve and making his 'cheeseburgum' joke. The rest of us opted for Alhambra.
We'd all played it before but for Quentin there had been a number of years in the interim. But he shrugged the woolly cloak of time aside and began building Moorish temples like there was no tomorrow. Fortunately for me, I'd built a ludicrously long wall, enough to see off Quentin's gardens and late charge into Chambers:
Sam 141
Quentin 130
Andrew 82
Seven Wonders was a tighter affair, with all of us scoring big in certain colours and covering the bases - mostly - on others. But Quent's avenue of blue buildings squeezed him into top spot by the skin of his teeth:
Quentin 60
Sam 59
Andrew 50
I'm not sure what happened in Hamburgum because despite a game length on the box claiming '1 hour' they were still building churches after Andrew, Quentin and I had finished a game of Alhambra and a game of Seven Wonders. I'm sure the comments will be abuzz - but the last we heard was Joe saying "I'm in the lead, but Adam's winning". A familiar sensation to most of us I'd hazard. Eventually Hamburg must have been churched up to the gills, however, as Joe texted me the final scores:
Adam 106
Joe 86
Steve 77
Another night of high drama and starchy foods comes to an end then (one assumes) and take heed; next week will be at Joe's house on Thursday. See you then...
The leaderboard...
| Played | Points | Ratio | |
| Sam | 18 | 81.5 | 4.53 |
| Adam | 16 | 74 | 4.63 |
| Andrew | 19 | 65 | 3.42 |
| Joe | 11 | 39 | 3.55 |
| Quentin | 4 | 19 | 4.75 |
| Jonny | 3 | 10.5 | 3.5 |
| Dan | 2 | 8 | 4 |
| Steve | 2 | 7.5 | 3.75 |
| Andy | 2 | 7 | 3.5 |
| Sally | 1 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
