We finished of with four hands of David & Goliath. I really like these simple little card games and D&G is one of the best. It is a straightforward-ish trick-taking game with a couple of twists. You have to follow suit if you can but, if not, you can play any card (there are no trumps). The highest card, regardless of suit, then wins the trick but here is twist number one: the player of the lowest card takes the highest card into their scoring pile and the trick winner takes the remainder of the cards. The second twist is in the scoring: Your scoring cards are separated by colour and in each colour you either score the number of cards taken in that colour (if you have 3 or more) or the value of the cards in that colour (if you have fewer than 3). So you ideally want to win two high cards in each suit, whereas everyone else wants you to win none or three.

Well, I got off to an awful start (obviously still gloating from the Moderne Zeiten result), but Mark K had a flier scoring 65 points to my 14. Nige just about caught Mark up on hand 2 but then wasn’t able to push past and Mark grabbed a good win. He scored consistently well in all 4 hands.