Toy Story Trouble

Playing Toy Story Trouble with Jessie is tedious.

When we play, Buzz is Buzz, Jessie is Jessie, I am Woody and Mr de Elba is Zurg.  Jessie is happy with this because (a) she is Jessie, and (b) she is opposite and not adjacent to Zurg, of whom she claims to be terrified because he's a Bad Guy.

Tonight, thanks to a large number of freak sixes, Jessie was streaking away to an early lead.  All was going well until her counters started making it around to the half-way point in the board.  "I don't want to go to Zurg's house!" she moaned with a theatrical tremble.  And she took her counters off and put them back at the beginning.

Okay, I thought.  She will just lose.  That's fine.

Mr de Elba aka Zurg convinced her to leave a counter in his quadrant a few times, on the strength that Jessie liked Buzz and Zurg was Buzz's father, hence Zurg was her de facto father-in-law and they had to learn how to get along.  Once a few of her counters were in the dreaded purple quadrant, any roll of the dice apparently allowed her to high-tail it out of Zurg territory, all the way back to her starting quadrant, skipping about 15 spots as she did so, gleefully announcing, "I'm getting away from Zurg's house!  Yay!"

Okay, I thought.  She will just lose.  That's fine.

Half-way into the game, her fake fear of Zurg overtook her desire to win and she removed her counters from the playing board, saying she was going to "hide" from Zurg.

Okay, I thought.  She will just lose.  That's fine.

However, "hiding" from Zurg meant getting her counters to cower on the opposite side of the - you know - don't make me say it - oh okay, the jolly Pop-O-Matic Bubble.

This meant that her counters were, technically, in her "home" zone.

And she'd "won."

Humph.