The Double and Drop Club (1)
Over New
Year at the Double and Drop, some of the usual crowd came in and out
for the chouette. Murray the Mint had had too much Christmas cheer
and was steaming more violently than usual; Cautious George was still
wedded to the plays that had served him well in 1975; the Phoenician
was his normal self: devastating with the checker play and utterly reckless
with the cube.
For the
first game Cautious was in the box (red) against me; we quite soon
reached this position:
After a
while he redoubled and showed some sign of anxiety when Mint and the
Phoenician took without a second's hesitation. After some thought, I
did too, although I wasn't convinced.
5 turns
later we reached this with me on roll:
and 3
cubes raced across the board towards the unhappy Cautious, who immediately
offered us 3 each. I was happy to bank the cash but Mint and the
Phoenician were having none of that. Mint took my place, made a great
show of rattling and shaking and rolled a 4-1!
So great
was the Cautious joy that he almost forgot to redouble but, after a
few seconds of rocking back and forth, dice cup in hand and looking heavenwards, the
cubes were over and so was the game.
“Some
take that was!” said Cautious, accusingly.
“Trivial,”
I lied.
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