Week in review: Week to 28 March
Mar. 30th, 2026 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedanther. At the board game meet, we played Lovecraft Letter, Flip 7 with a Vengeance, and Concept.
The game of Lovecraft Letter went on for a while because different people kept winning rounds and once any player got within one round of carrying the game others started targeting them. By the time one player won the necessary three rounds to secure victory, everyone had won at least one round except me.
I busted on the first couple of rounds of Flip 7 with a Vengeance as well, and wondered if I was going to go the whole evening without scoring at anything, but then I got into the swing of it and started racking up points. Over the course of the game I won two rounds with seven-card spreads, including the final round which secured me the overall victory.
I went first in Concept, and was amused to notice that one of the options on the card was "Yu-gi-oh", which is often being played on the TCG table during the club meets. I got as far as indicating the concepts game, person, and pyramid, and then ran out of ideas for what other available concepts would provide useful clarification; one of the other players did get the right answer eventually. (Another player suggested I could have done something with "heart of the cards", which I hadn't remembered about.)
Another fun round was when a player indicated man, clothing, and black, and we ran through a variety of guesses before he found a hint that pointed successfully in the direction of Darth Vader; along the way, he indicated that the clothing was metal as well as black, and that the person in question had lost several limbs -- at which point, multiple of us guessed the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (We might or might not have got the answer sooner if he'd been able to find the square on the board that can be used to indicate space: as we said when we were discussing it afterward, that might just have pointed us back toward (k)night.)
. I blew off Parkrun this week because there was a forecast of rain. Another time I'd probably have gone anyway, and likely been fine (the rain didn't start really coming down until after Parkrun had concluded), but it was closing night of the short play season that evening and I decided I owed it to the audience to stay dry and warm and not catch the flu or lose my voice.
. The short play season went very well, with good audiences for a short play season, especially on closing night. The cast and crew all got on well, too, which is always nice. We start rehearsals for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown tomorrow.
. I've been intrigued for a while by the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
no_true_pair fic challenge, in which you choose a set of characters and are given fic prompts for each pair of characters in the list, but the sticking point has always been that I can't make up my mind what characters to do it with. I waffled about joining the latest four-character round for ages, and eventually signed on literally five minutes before the posting phase was opened with a set of characters picked more or less at random. So far, I've written a vignette for one prompt and started on another, and it's been an interesting exercise in thinking about what the paired characters have in common, but I'm not sure it's going to result in anything I actually consider publishable.
. I've completed the jigsaw puzzle I've been working on. In the end, I liked it a lot more than the previous one I tried from the same manufacturer, although I still think the engineering of the pieces could stand to be a bit tighter.
. The latest addition to my daily puzzle routine is Glyph, a Wordle-like game in which you have four guesses to identify a word with the assistance of an image showing the letters of the word stacked on top of each other. I'm enjoying it, and doing pretty well; the only time I've needed all four guesses was the first time I tried it, and that was partly because I'd got the explanation of the letter-order hints back to front.
. I'm not sure what it says that I've been only vaguely aware of NASA's Artemis II mission -- which plans to send a human crew on an observation pass around the Moon, closer than any humans have been in fifty years -- and it was only by chance that I saw a notice that lift-off is scheduled to take place this week (early Thursday morning, Australian time).
The game of Lovecraft Letter went on for a while because different people kept winning rounds and once any player got within one round of carrying the game others started targeting them. By the time one player won the necessary three rounds to secure victory, everyone had won at least one round except me.
I busted on the first couple of rounds of Flip 7 with a Vengeance as well, and wondered if I was going to go the whole evening without scoring at anything, but then I got into the swing of it and started racking up points. Over the course of the game I won two rounds with seven-card spreads, including the final round which secured me the overall victory.
I went first in Concept, and was amused to notice that one of the options on the card was "Yu-gi-oh", which is often being played on the TCG table during the club meets. I got as far as indicating the concepts game, person, and pyramid, and then ran out of ideas for what other available concepts would provide useful clarification; one of the other players did get the right answer eventually. (Another player suggested I could have done something with "heart of the cards", which I hadn't remembered about.)
Another fun round was when a player indicated man, clothing, and black, and we ran through a variety of guesses before he found a hint that pointed successfully in the direction of Darth Vader; along the way, he indicated that the clothing was metal as well as black, and that the person in question had lost several limbs -- at which point, multiple of us guessed the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (We might or might not have got the answer sooner if he'd been able to find the square on the board that can be used to indicate space: as we said when we were discussing it afterward, that might just have pointed us back toward (k)night.)
. I blew off Parkrun this week because there was a forecast of rain. Another time I'd probably have gone anyway, and likely been fine (the rain didn't start really coming down until after Parkrun had concluded), but it was closing night of the short play season that evening and I decided I owed it to the audience to stay dry and warm and not catch the flu or lose my voice.
. The short play season went very well, with good audiences for a short play season, especially on closing night. The cast and crew all got on well, too, which is always nice. We start rehearsals for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown tomorrow.
. I've been intrigued for a while by the
no_true_pair fic challenge, in which you choose a set of characters and are given fic prompts for each pair of characters in the list, but the sticking point has always been that I can't make up my mind what characters to do it with. I waffled about joining the latest four-character round for ages, and eventually signed on literally five minutes before the posting phase was opened with a set of characters picked more or less at random. So far, I've written a vignette for one prompt and started on another, and it's been an interesting exercise in thinking about what the paired characters have in common, but I'm not sure it's going to result in anything I actually consider publishable.. I've completed the jigsaw puzzle I've been working on. In the end, I liked it a lot more than the previous one I tried from the same manufacturer, although I still think the engineering of the pieces could stand to be a bit tighter.
. The latest addition to my daily puzzle routine is Glyph, a Wordle-like game in which you have four guesses to identify a word with the assistance of an image showing the letters of the word stacked on top of each other. I'm enjoying it, and doing pretty well; the only time I've needed all four guesses was the first time I tried it, and that was partly because I'd got the explanation of the letter-order hints back to front.
. I'm not sure what it says that I've been only vaguely aware of NASA's Artemis II mission -- which plans to send a human crew on an observation pass around the Moon, closer than any humans have been in fifty years -- and it was only by chance that I saw a notice that lift-off is scheduled to take place this week (early Thursday morning, Australian time).
