There was traditional American-style food and drinks on offer with the beer flowing all night. Several teams partook of this heavily and took the opportunity to share drinking songs from around the world. A lot of local card games were also shared and taught to card game fans from around the world. Everybody had enjoyed the past weekend and taken it in the best of humour throughout. So concludes another World Puzzle Championship, the ninth in the series.
Future installments have a lot to live up to.
This particular embodiment of the concept of people coming together from around the world in a meeting of minds has had a lot of attention to detail paid to it. The result - a fascinating variety of puzzles, carefully targeted so that everyone can get some right and very few can get all right, and attentive, courteous, caring service. So here's to a winter of practice in order to shine in next spring's qualifying test and hopefully earn a place at another chance of a lifetime party like this.