Friday night, Kristen and I went to a tricky tray. Two things about tricky trays: 1) I never go expecting to win. I always consider it a donation to whatever fundraiser they’re doing. (In this case, scholarships for girls.) 2) I’m pretty liberal with where my tickets end up. There’s always a handful of trays I’d really like to have, a handful more that could be useful (or usefully re-gifted) and a bunch that I just throw my tickets in for the hell of it.
I ended up winning two trays Friday night – a hotel night in Princeton (to which my husband said, “Princeton? That’s an hour away! Why would we stay there?) and a game-themed basket.
The game basket had the U-Build versions of Monopoly, Battleship and Mousetrap along with a few puzzle books and decks of cards. It was one of the trays I threw in for on a whim – I figured I could donate anything we wouldn’t play to a toy drive come Christmas.
One of the books in the pack was this one:
It’s essential a crossword puzzle without clues. Each box is numbered 1-26 to correspond with a letter of the alphabet. They give you 3 letters to start each puzzle and then you have to work out the other 23.
It’s quite hard. And completely addictive. I seriously haven’t put it down since I opened it. 5 puzzles down, 267 to go!
I love that you're obsessed with the codebreakers book! I'm glad you ended up with something useful!
ReplyDeleteI knew Mark was going to have that reaction to the hotel lol. It'll be a funny little night out!
what the heck is a tricky tray???
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