I was not pleased when the driver switched seats with SPL and allowed her to drive along the narrow roads of rural Aberdeenshire. Although she held a driver’s licence, SPL rarely took the wheel of a car, and it showed. She broke the speed limit, overtook on bends, and almost flattened a cyclist. I cowered in the back seat, praying that we would reach our destination with both vehicle and passengers intact.

On arrival at the chapel I found LM weeping in the aisles. Nobody was taking seriously her carefully crafted church treasure hunt. I feared that the 25 clues were probably too many and too difficult. Furthermore, to remove each clue from view as soon as the first team had solved it, seemed a rather odd strategy – especially if you wished to hold the players’ interest in the competition.