Tribond

Dad, Pete, and Sam were walking back to the car at Ledo Pizza when they walked past a group just coming in. In the back of their truck was a full-size hot tub, in transit. This gave them a few good ideas for some practical jokes. The first was simply to remove the hot tub and then see the looks on the faces when they came back out to their car and found it missing. But then Dad was struck with an even better idea – they could fill up the hot tub and turn it on, so they would be lounging in the tub (with jets going) when the people came out to their car after lunch. The logistical challenges of this proposition were too much to contemplate, so they just piled back into their own car and headed home. 

Later in the evening, Mom had the idea of reinstating the “Advent Games” concept they had done last year. Every day, they would pick a game off the tree and play it together in family bliss. Today’s game was Peggle, which was only on the Xbox downstairs, so they decided to play Tribond instead. The teams were Pete and Dad against Mom and Sam. The game seemed to start out well enough, but it ultimately ended in someone getting so upset that he destroyed the board and then declared the game a draw. Sadly, no one can play Yellow in that game anymore, since one of the yellow tokens suffered an unknown fate and could not be found despite an ardent search after the incident.

[Update: the yellow token was located a few days later in Pete's jacket pocket. The jacket had been draped on the back of the chair prior to the "incident"]