As Z/Yennies will know, we are so socially-challenged that we find it necessary to subject our Lady Daphne networking guests to complicated games and then bury them in cheap corporate gimcrack prizes like a million Turkish lira to buy their affection. Over the last three years our Boating Bourse games have grown to five - technology, environment, law, biotechnology and facilities management. These business/ hospitality games have become a shore-based product line in their own right for awaydays and conferences (call for a quote) - but guests clamoured for new chances to win prizes on the boat.

We felt compelled to develop an entirely new fun format, so in April we launched a new merger mystery, OligopoLuedo (elementary my dear Watson). Our clever friends managed to convict the ‘Enron’ (as for the not-so-clever ones…), and uncover the dastardly tricks it was up to, but some had problems finding their ideal merger partner. Nevertheless, substantial M&A fees and soouuuper prizes were had by all. So dust off those cupboard games and practise before your next trip. Bring your own deerstalker. Mashy niblicks provided on board.