By lunchtime, Ronald was showing the drawings he made for the three new games to his Spider. “Do you understand? The trickier one, it’s this, the ‘Battleship’. You must make the ships this size with these small holes on top of them to put the markers. And on the playing field, at each interconnection of the grid, you need to make small holes as well to place markers and hold the ships in place. In the other two games, it’s just the playing field, dice, and some pawns to play. Do you think you can do all this?”
The Spider grabbed each drawing and looked at them more attentively. She then made a drawing of her own on the floor of the boxes, ships, dice, markers, and pawns to get a sense of the scale and pointed at it and the drawings. Ronald smiled.
“Yes, that’s the correct size. I think o
