Gentlemen, start your engines and put out your candles

And here is Pitchcar. Up close and personal. As you can see, you build a racetrack and then use the little discs to simulate the race. On your turn you flick the disc and make your way around the track three times. Race is over, to the victor go the spoils. It really is great fun. The next time we have the stunt track addition (ramps!) in the mix I'll take a picture and you can see just how crazy things can get.

I really need some sort of placeholder conversation so I can put the other picture I have in the mix. That's the problem with Pitchcar, there are like two rules in the entire game so explaining it doesn't really lead to much in the way of writing. I suppose I can mention that if you flip your car over you lose your next turn (it's spent just flipping it right side up) or if you knock someone off you both go back to where you were (depending on the variant you're playing) and if your car goes flying off the track it goes back to where it was (maintaining the side it landed on). So yeah, rules.

While I have your attention I'll pass along the one quick M story I have. As you may be aware we were working on science fair projects this week. M decided to do the make some carbon dioxide and pour it out of a glass to extinguish a candle trick. Thus proving that CO₂ is heavier than air and inflammable. So she and lovely wife gather the necessary parts and proceed to create CO₂ by mixing baking soda and vinegar. It bubbles and froths and she is suitably impressed by that. They mix a little more just to make sure she has enough and M then pours the gas onto the candle and it goes out. She does that surprised intake of breath thing and her eyes go wide and she says, "Light it again! Light it again!" So lovely wife does and M puts the candle out again. "It's SCIENCE! Look Mom! Science!" So yes, you too can do Science. Just like the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra insists.

Oh and in case you wondered who won the above race. Well. Let's just say this is not a game that would ever show up in the Games My Wife Hates column. Although I did win one of them. Just not two out of three of them...