We are taught a brilliant card game by Emmet – ‘Spoons’ requires a collection of said utensils and enough players to have one less spoon than people. The aim is to ensure a bit like musical chairs that you are not left without a spoon at the end of each round. This is decided upon by making sets of fours with the dealt cards, which are then circulated round the group by passing a card at a time to your left and picking up from your right – this is all done at a frantic pace until someone makes a four of a kind and picks up a spoon. Once this happens anyone else can pick up a spoon as well even though they haven’t made a four of a kind until there’s one player left empty handed. Because you become caught up in the getting of four of a kind and passing cards around it’s difficult to spot when someone finally picks up a spoon, when that moment of realisation hits all the other players there’s a frenzied grab at the remaining spoons on the table in front of you. The game is completely addictive, stressful to play and brilliant to watch.

I get to play in the second game, lose in the first round having grabbed only a fistful of tablecloth