ScottVee Gaming

Anne's family gatherings are always fun.  Everyone is nice and friendly and there are some serious gamers in the group.  Oddly, the Holiday game night this year had a whole layer of extra rules, and there was a trophy of sorts that the winner would keep until next year.  The trophy from last year had apparently been destroyed in a dog-related accident, so we got to admire the new creation as the core group was gearing up to win it. I think the scoring system was explained to us all about five times, and I still doubt I can write it down correctly.  But here goes: - for a two-player game, it's just one point to win - for a 3 or 4 player game each player gets 1 point to participate and another point to win - for more than 4 players it's double the 3-4 player score There was a leaderboard of sorts written on a notebook page next to the plate of cookies.  And I did hear that somebody won the trophy later on.  Other than that, I have no idea what was actually go...

Just like last year , we had another holiday gift exchange.  This time some new rules and twists were tried. Instead of picking numbers from a hat (because that was too much work to set up), we all passed around a small tray and rolled two dice.  If you rolled doubles, you got a turn in the regular gift exchange, using the regular rules: steal an already-opened gift or unwrap a new gift.  Even though there were about 15 people, I immediately saw that this could take a while.  In fact, there's no guarantee that ANYONE would roll doubles.  Sure, 15 people in a row not rolling doubles would be rare, but the chance is non-zero.  It could quite possibly take hours for 15 people to roll doubles.  It could theoretically never end at all.  We could still be there failing ... way off the deep end of the Bell curve. As expected, the first time through the circle, I think only two people rolled doubles.  After another loop, the person in charge decided ...