Round Two – The Waldo Experiment

"Hey, Sheldon, you're always full of fun little facts." Penny remarked as she walked over to where Sheldon was sitting in 'his' spot on the couch, arms folded across his chest with a sulky expression on his face. "Where did the expression 'got your ass handed to you' come from?"

"Don't know." Sheldon replied shortly, still smarting from being beaten by someone who didn't even know how to balance her cheque book correctly.

"I wonder if it's from, like, ancient Rome…where they'd actually chop somebody's ass off and then go, "Here." You know, to appease Loseroneous, the god of losers." Penny leant forward, getting up close and personal with Sheldon, relishing the fact that she had managed to beat him at one thing.

"I am not a loser." Sheldon retorted, "Pictionary is not a true test of any real intelligence or skill."

"In all fairness, Pictionary has verbal skills, visual skills. A pretty well rounded game." Leonard remarked as he shifted his armchair back into position and looking over at Sheldon who had stalked off into the kitchen.

"Lot of big talk from a man who can't draw a chocolate chip cookie."

"Fine, pick another game. Amy and I will beat you at anything." Penny suggested and saw that spark of competitiveness rekindle in Sheldon's eyes. She rejected his idea of Physics Fiesta and Leonard vetoed Amy's idea of water polo; stating that Sheldon couldn't float. Sheldon then rejected Penny's idea of a game of Darts due to the fact it was a bar game and Penny would have an unfair advantage over the rest of them – pool, beer-pong, wet t-shirt contests were all vetoed by Sheldon for the same reasons; Penny was a frequent visitor to the local taverns and had been since she was of legal age. They finally settled for a non-conventional game of 'Where's Waldo' but with a Sheldon twist.

"Okay, glasses off." Penny instructed, Leonard and Amy removed their glasses and brought the book up close to their faces. "Find Waldo!"

"Hurry up, find him. Find him." Sheldon urged Leonard only for Leonard to squint even harder at the page to try and focus.

"I'm trying! Don't yell at me!"

"For goodness' sake. He's wearing a hat, glasses and a red-striped shirt!" Sheldon was rapidly losing patience with Leonard, how hard could it be to find someone so distinctive?

"I know what he looks like!" Leonard snapped back and then Amy gave a crow of triumph.

"There he is, I got him!"

"Yes! We win again. Yes." Penny did a little happy dance and pumped the air with her fist.

"How could you not find him?" Sheldon demanded, folding his arms across his chest and looking at Leonard in disappointment.

"Because he's hard to find! If he was easy to find, the books would be called There's Waldo!" Leonard snapped back, pinching the bridge of his nose where he could already feel a headache forming.

"I demand a re-match!" Sheldon stated, not prepared to lose any further rounds to a bunch of girls. "I think...Math, yes, Math will do nicely."