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Chapter 1 This is how Kyle Keeley got grounded for a week. First he took a shortcut through his mother's favorite rosebush. Yes, the thorns hurt, but having crashed through the brambles and trampled a few petunias, he had a five-second jump on his oldest brother, Mike. Both Kyle and his big brother knew exactly where to find what they needed to win the game: inside the house! Kyle had already found the pinecone to complete his "outdoors" round. And he was pretty

凯尔·基利就是这样被禁足一周的。 首先，他抄近路穿过他母亲最喜欢的玫瑰丛。 是的，荆棘很痛，但在穿过荆棘并踩到几株牵牛花后，他从哥哥迈克身上跳了五秒钟。 凯尔和他的哥哥都很清楚在哪里可以找到赢得比赛所需的东西:在房子里!凯尔已经找到了松果，完成了他的“户外”之旅。 他很漂亮

sure Mike had snagged his "yellow flower." Hey, it was June. Dandelions were everywhere. "Give it up, Kyle!" shouted Mike as the brothers dashed up the driveway. "You don't stand a chance." Mike zoomed past Kyle and headed for the front door, wiping out Kyle's temporary lead. Of course he did. Seventeen-year-old Mike Keeley was a total jock, a high school superstar. Football, basketball, baseball. If it had a ball, Mike Keeley was good at it. Kyle, who was twelve, wasn't the star of anything. Kyle's other brother, Curtis, who was fifteen, was still trapped over in the neighbor's yard, dealing with their dog. Curtis was the smartest Keeley. But for his "outdoors" round, he had pulled the always unfortunate Your Neighbor's Dog's Toy card. Any "dog" card was basically the same as a Lose a Turn. As for why the three Keeley brothers were running around their neighborhood on a Sunday

迈克肯定抓住了他的“黄花”。 嘿，那是六月。到处都是蒲公英。 “放弃吧，凯尔!”当兄弟俩冲上车道时，迈克喊道。 “你没有机会。” 迈克从凯尔身边呼啸而过，朝前门冲去，把凯尔暂时领先的位置一扫而空。 当然了。17岁的迈克·基利是个十足的运动员，是高中的超级明星。 足球，篮球，棒球。 如果它有球的话，迈克·基利很擅长。 十二岁的凯尔并不是什么明星。 凯尔的另一个兄弟，15岁的柯蒂斯，仍然被困在邻居的院子里，和他们的狗打交道。 柯蒂斯是基利家族中最聪明的。 但在他的“户外”回合中，他拿出了总是不幸的“你邻居的狗的玩具”卡片。 任何“狗”牌基本上都和“输掉一个回合”牌一样。 至于为什么基利三兄弟在星期天在他们的社区里跑来跑去

afternoon like crazed lunatics, grabbing all sorts of wacky stuff, well, it was their mother's fault. She was the one who had suggested, "If you boys are bored, play a board game!" So Kyle had gone down into the basement and dug up one of his all-time favorites: Mr. Lemoncello's Indoor-Outdoor Scavenger Hunt. It had been a huge hit for Mr. Lemoncello, the master game maker. Kyle and his brothers had played it so much when they were younger, Mrs. Keeley wrote to Mr. Lemoncello's company for a refresher pack of clue cards. The new cards listed all sorts of different bizarro stuff you needed to find, like "an adult's droopy underpants," "one dirty dish," and "a rotten banana peel." (At the end of the game, the losers had to put everything back exactly where the items had been found. It was an official rule, printed inside the top of the box, and made winning the game that much more important!) While Curtis was stranded next door, trying to talk the neighbor's Doberman, Twinky, out of his favorite tug toy, Kyle and Mike were both searching for the same two items, because for the

下午像疯子一样，抓各种古怪的东西，这是他们妈妈的错。 是她建议说:“如果你们男孩子觉得无聊，就玩桌游吧!”于是凯尔下到地下室，挖出了他一直以来的最爱之一:莱蒙切罗先生的室内外寻宝游戏。 对于游戏制作大师莱蒙切罗来说，这是一款大获成功的游戏。 凯尔和他的兄弟们小时候经常玩这款游戏，于是基利夫人写信给莱蒙切罗的公司，要求他们提供一套提示卡。 新的卡片上列出了各种各样你需要找到的稀奇古怪的东西，比如“一个大人的下垂的内裤”、“一个脏盘子”和“一个腐烂的香蕉皮”。 (游戏结束时，失败者必须把所有东西放回原来的地方。 这是一条官方规则，印在盒子顶部，让赢得比赛变得更加重要!)当柯蒂斯被困在隔壁，试图说服邻居的杜宾犬Twinky放弃他最喜欢的拖船玩具时，凯尔和迈克都在寻找同样的两件东西，因为对他们来说

final round, all the players were given the same Riddle Card. That day's riddle, even though it was a card Kyle had never seen before, had been extra easy. FIND TWO COINS FROM 1982 THAT ADD UP TO THIRTY CENTS AND ONE OF THEM CANNOT BE A NICKEL. Duh. The answer was a quarter and a nickel because the riddle said only one of them couldn't be a nickel. So to win, Kyle had to find a 1982 quarter and a 1982 nickel. Also easy. Their dad kept an apple cider jug filled with loose change down in his basement workshop. That's why Kyle and Mike were racing to get there first. Mike bolted through the front door. Kyle grinned. He loved playing games against his big brothers. As the youngest, it was just about the only chance he ever got to beat them fair and square. Board games leveled the playing field. You needed a good roll of the dice, a lucky draw

最后一轮，所有玩家都得到了相同的谜语卡。 那天的谜语，尽管是凯尔以前从未见过的牌，却特别容易。 找两枚1982年的硬币，加起来是30美分，其中不可能有一枚是5分镍币。 咄。答案是25美分和5美分，因为谜语说它们中只有一个不可能是5美分。 为了赢球，凯尔必须找到1982年的四分硬币和1982年的五分硬币。 也容易。他们的父亲在地下室的工作间里放了一个装满零钱的苹果酒罐。 这就是凯尔和迈克抢着第一个到的原因。 迈克从前门冲了出去。 凯尔咧嘴一笑。他喜欢和哥哥们玩游戏。 作为最小的孩子，这几乎是他唯一一次光明正大地打败他们的机会。 桌游使比赛环境变得公平。 你需要一次好的掷骰子，一次幸运的抽奖

of the cards, and some smarts, but if things went your way and you gave it your all, anyone could win. Especially today, since Mike had blown his lead by choosing the standard route down to the basement. He'd go through the front door, tear to the back of the house, bound down the steps, and then run to their dad's workshop. Kyle, on the other hand, would take a shortcut. He hopped over a couple of boxy shrubs and kicked open the low-to-the-ground casement window. He heard something crackle when his tennis shoe hit the window-pane, but he couldn't worry about it. He had to beat his big brother. He crawled through the narrow opening, dropped to the floor, and scrabbled over to the workbench, where he found the jug, dumped out the coins, and started sifting through the sea of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. Score! Kyle quickly uncovered a 1982 nickel. He tucked it into his shirt pocket and sent pennies, nickels, and dimes skidding across the floor as he concentrated on quarters. 2010. 2003. 1986.

还有一些小聪明，但如果事情按你的方式发展，你全力以赴，谁都有可能赢。 尤其是今天，迈克已经失去了领先优势，选择了通往地下室的标准路线。 他会穿过前门，跑到房子后面，蹦蹦跳跳地走下台阶，然后跑到他们爸爸的工作室。 另一方面，凯尔会走捷径。 他跳过几棵四四方方的灌木，踢开了那扇低到地面的平窗。 当他的网球鞋撞在窗玻璃上时，他听到了什么声音，但他不担心。 他必须打败他的哥哥。 他爬过狭窄的洞口，爬到地板上，爬到工作台上，在那里他找到了罐子，把硬币倒了出来，开始在一堆一分、五分、一角和25美分的硬币中筛选。 分数!凯尔很快发现了一枚1982年的镍币。 他把它塞进衬衫口袋里，一分、五分和一角的硬币在地板上滑来滑去，他把注意力集中在两角五分的硬币上。 2010. 2003. 1986.