Yank the Tablecloth!

One tap. Whip the cloth out and leave everything standing. A sunflower wall, a cobalt table, blue-and-white china, and a tomato-red cloth under all of it. A marker patrols the SNAP meter beneath your hands, and part of that track is gold. Tap anywhere and you yank. IN THE GOLD, NOTHING MOVES CLEAN! The crockery shivers as the cloth whips out from under it and stays exactly where it was. OFF THE GOLD, EVERYTHING SLIDES Every piece travels toward you by the same distance, and the further off the gold you were, the further it goes. EARLY or LATE under the meter tells you which way you were out. A near miss drags things a little. A real miss drags them off. A PIECE FALLS ONLY IF THE CENTRE OF ITS BASE CLEARS THE EDGE One that merely overhangs rocks out toward the drop, rocks back, and stays - still overhanging next round. One that is only just over begins exactly the same way, and for a…