Fun & Games

Yesterday it dawned on me that the squash courts we have nearby to my dorm are indoors. And squash is kind of like racquetball. Somehow I thought that a squash court was like a tennis court, only smaller.
So now I wonder when I see people carrying tennis rackets, if they're actually squash rackets.

At the Shop we have this really nice boules set. What is boules? (Pronounced "bowls", also something I didn't know.) Turns out it's rather like bocce, with one small wooden ball that the players try to position larger, heavier balls as close to as possible. Oh.

I've also played British Pool a few times here, which is just like Eight Ball in billiards, only instead of solids and stripes the balls are red and yellow, with one black ball. Unfortunately, British pool can only be played in this fashion, or at least there are no where near as many things you can do with fifteen balls in only two colors. I think "pool" and "billiards" both mean the same thing, and the seven different colors, and solids and stripes, make for a lot of nice variations. Pretty much the same thing though.
Also, British pool tables are smaller, with smaller pockets, lighter balls and cue sticks, untapered sides, and slightly different rules. It reminds me like Eight Ball played by Nine Ball rules. At Teviot, one of two student unions, there are about ten British pool tables and two American ones. Unfortunately they only stock the American pool tables to have seven stripes and seven solids, irrespective of the actual numbers of the ball, so some game variations are impossible to play.

On Tuesday night, Physics Society held a Jenga tournament. I had never actually played Jenga before in my life, so the fact I made it into the semifinals (in a field of just over 20 people) is somewhat impressive, I thought.
It might have been the best evening I've had in Scotland. No joke.
Evidence that this Jenga Tournament actually took place can be found in the very few photos I just added to photobucket.