Andrea, Jacob and I play a lot of games after dinner. We don’t really keep track of who wins what or how many times, but I’ve always wondered if we could create a pseudo-tournament idea by keeping track over the course of a year. We started the year while on vacation, so we didn’t capture EVERYTHING, but we did keep track each week on a calendar near our kitchen table.

I didn’t think it through in advance…while MOST of our games are the three of us, there are also lots of 2-player events where Jacob and I will play some cribbage during the day, or a Scrabble game that is usually just Jacob and Andrea (I don’t do well at word combination games).

Over the first three months of 2025, we played 12 different games:

• Jeopardy — We have a calendar and do the questions each week, trying to beat each other by Sunday…Jacob won 5 weeks, Andrea won 4, I won 3, and Andrea and Jacob tied one game;
• Alleys — Andrea won 10 games but always feels like she never wins, while Jacob and I won 5 each;
• UnoFlip — only 1 game, with my winning;
• Moonshot Euchre — 1 game/win for each of us;
• SuperQuiz Trivia — 1 game that Jacob won;
• Abduction — 1 game that Jacob won;
• Scrabble — 1 game that Jacob won;
• Epic Galaxies — 1 game that I think Andrea won;
• Labyrinth — Not sure who won that one;
• Catan — 1 game that Andrea won;
• Cribbage — We have played a LOT of cribbage in the first three months, combining normal 5-card cribbage (with 3 players); 6-card cribbage (with 2 players); a variation with 8 cards (with 3 players); a variation with 9 cards (with 2 players); and a complicated cribbage board called Crib Wars…I lumped them all together, and as I said, Jacob and I played a lot of games just the two of us, but the end of the quarter has Andrea with 9 wins, Jacob with 24 wins, and me with 16 wins; and,
• Backgammon — Mostly just Jacob and I, with Jacob winning 9 and me winning 11.

The end result was 113 games with Jacob winning 51, my winning 37, Andrea winning 27 (but again she didn’t play most of the cribbage games), and Andrea and Jacob tied one game.

If I count just the games that were predominantly three people playing:

• Jeopardy: A 4, J 5, P 3, tied AJ 1
• Alleys: A 10, J 5, P 5
• UnoFlip: A 0, J 0, P 1
• Trivia: A 0, J 1, P 0
• Abduction: A 0, J 1, P 0
• Epic Galaxies: A 1, J 0, P 0
• Catan: A 1, J 0, P 0
• Total: A 16, J 12, P 9 plus AJ 1

So it looks like Andrea is leading the First Quarter and sits as Queen of Games.