Weekend Apples

Not my apple pie, though my guests asked for my recipe, but the game Apples to Apples, which occupied six of us for over an hour after lunch. First play for everyone except for me and Tal. One of the kids, aged 16, either acted - or perhaps was - disturbed by the judge's selection on various turns and threatened to leave the game/throw the judge out of the game. Explicably, he remained in the game nonetheless.

Before lunch I taught four of them how to play No Thanks. Unfortunately, one of them was a Very Young Child whose grasp of the game was just enough to realize that she could take all of the cards if she wanted to. And she did. And she did.