When both players had returned, Bink announced the start of game 11. He lead them down the next path. Howie followed with a huge grin and Nancy was right behind him. The path ended in a large clearing. At one end of the clearing was a soccer goal. Bink opened a box on the ground and pulled out 3 soccer balls.
The grinning host explained the game to the two players. Each player would kick three balls at the goal from a distance of 25 yards. The player who scored the most goals won. If there was a tie each player would kick one ball until the tie was broken. Bink put the three balls down and told Nancy she could take her kicks first.
Nancy was smiling. Her faith was being rewarded. While she had never played organized soccer, with her leg strength and athletic training, this was going to be easy. Nancy hardly hesitated. She took a couple of steps back, and then ran forward and kicked the first ball dead center of the goal. Within a minute, balls 2 and 3 followed and Nancy just stepped back smiling.
Bink respotted the balls and Howie stepped up. He'd never been able to kick anything straight in his life. Howie took a step back and kicked at the ball. His foot topped it and the ball rolled about 10 feet and stopped. The game was over that quick.
Bink led the players back and Carol announced that Nancy had won game 11. The crowd moaned and then they began to try and cheer Howie on. Nancy just stood and waited. God was with her, it would be all right. Then game 12 was announced and Bink, Nancy, and Howie headed down path 12.
The three of them came to the end of the path, and it took Nancy a moment to figure out what she was looking at. There were bizarre looking ramps everywhere. Then she realized she was looking at a small miniature golf course. Bink handed each player a putter and a ball, then he explained the game. There were three miniature golf holes. Each player played each hole once. The player with the lowest number of strokes after the three holes won. If there was a tie they would repeat one hole at a time until the tie was broken.
The first hole was a straight putt with an electronic turning windmill blocking the putt intermittently. The second hole was a zig zag, where the ball was supposed to bounce off two wooden blocks in order to reach the cup. The third and final hole was simply long and straight. The cup was in the center of a very small raised area right near the back wall.
Bink told Nancy to start. She placed her ball and made her first putt. It went safely past the windmill but missed the cup. It stopped less than a foot from the hole and Nancy tapped it in.