more gaming mishap

Another inexplicably poor board gaming performance from yours truly. I came in dead last at Small World Underground, despite having played the nearly-identical Small World numerous times and having two of my four opponents be new to the game and not avid gamers in general. I made a common newbie mistake that I’ve personally warned novice players against, and I failed to keep track of everyone’s points so I’d know who was in the lead (and thus who I should harass most).

I can address the latter if I can find some method of mentally tracking eight frequently-changing numbers over the course of two hours that frequent mental arithmetic on different numbers can’t disrupt. As for the former, there’s really no excuse.