Wordle 287

🟨🟨⬛️🟨⬛️ PEARL

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛️ ROPED

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 OPTER

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TROPE

Wordle 282

⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️ JUICE

⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩 HOUND

⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩 POUND

⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩 WOUND

⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩 SOUND

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOUND

Cribbage Board Coffee Table

I found this on Etsy today. It is way too pricey for me but I love the look of it.

Cribbage @ Middle East Cuisine - Apr 3, 2014

This was a short, small unofficial meetup. David and I ate and played for an hour. We only managed to play a single game. We used one of the travel boards that Joel gave me at the Crystal City meetup a couple weeks ago.

David said he was going to let me win. He jumped out to a big lead early in the game. I came back and took the lead down the stretch. Just before the last hand he offered to pay for my meal, because (as he jokingly suggested) he was going to win.

We were within 3 points of one another at the beginning of the final hand. He dealt and I was one point shy of having enough points in my hand to win. I scored a couple points on a 15 thus giving me the extra points I needed to win. The next to last card David played was a 5. All I had left was a 5. I played it and scored a couple more points. I was still short of 121. Then he played his final card, another 5 and scored six points, enough to put him across the finish line. I never got a chance to count the points in my hand. *sigh*

If I had played anything other than a 5, he would not have won the game on that play.

Cribbage @ Ghana Café - Jan 16, 2014

I arrived late and stayed late. There was a fairly big turnout, 11 people; a few of them were new to the group, a couple others were joining us for just the second time.

I played 4 games. The first two were 4-player games. Mandy and I were paired against Bryan and Rebecca. We won both games although B&R led for the first 2/3 of the first game.

After that a few people left and the group shrunk from 11 to 7. I played a 3-player game with Mandy and Ted which I won without much trouble. I think Mandy might have got skunked.

After that a few more people left and the group shrunk from 7 to 3. Joey, Ted, and I played one final game. I won that one too, again without much trouble. Once again someone got skunked, I think this time it was Joey. It was 10 by then. We all had work he next day so we packed up and left.

As good as I did I didn't have any phenomenal hands. I think my highest scoring hand was 12 points; no double-double or triple-double runs for me. I just got consistently good cards.

For dinner I had chicken with "stew" and black beans and rice. The food was good but a little pricey. I paid about $17, including tax and tip for the food. 

Cribbage @ Nando's Peri-peri - Dec 5, 2013

There wasn't a very big turnout last night at the Cribbage Meet up I organized. It was just me plus two others: David (a regular) and Mandy (new to the group but not to cribbage). We played 3 games, David won all three of them. I had my best shot of winning in the first game where I was ahead heading down the final stretch but David had some really great hands and pulled ahead of me. I had a shot of winning it on the final hand because I counted first but I just didn't have good enough cards to close the deal The numbers don't reflect it but it was a successful event in my book.

Cribbage @ Marx Cafe - May 13, 2012

Game 1 (Teams: Joel & Charles, Ann & Me; Winners: Joel & Charles)

Game 2 (Teams: Joel & Charles, Ann & Me; Winners: Joel & Charles)

My highest hand of the night was a double-double run for 16 points in the first game.

Worst moment of the night (for me) happened in the first game. I played an ace, the third in a row after both Ann and Charles. I was feeling rather confident so I made a snide remark, something along the lines of, "oh that's too bad". My moment of glory was shattered seconds later when Joel played the 4th ace. I wasn't expecting that. It hurt but I earned it. Karma.

We got skunked in the second game.

More people had arrived by the time game 2 ended. We broke things up. I played Joel while Ann and Charles played a game.

Game 3 (Players: Joel, Me; Winner: Joel)

After our game Joel had to go. I watched Ann and Charles finish up their game, which Ann won.

Game 4 (Players: David, Ann, Me; Winner: David)

David joined us after Charles left. I was in 3rd place for the entire game and just barely avoided getting skunked.

The weirdest moment of the night happened during this game. It was David's turn to count his points. He threw down his cards and said he had two pair for 4 points. His cards were Q-Q-5-5. Ann and I looked at the cards, then at one another then back at the cards then at David. She looked as confused as I felt. David looked back at us. He still hadn't put 2 and 2 together. I dunno how he missed seeing that many points but once we pointed out his mistake the veil was lifted, he understood confused facial expressions, and took the additional 8 points he had in his hand.

Including me, a total of 8 people came to this event; none of them were new to the group. We got the waitress to take a picture of us which came out quite nicely. We were there for about 5 hrs.