Beaten by a draft excluder.

Yes, that does read 'by' and not 'with'.
Joshua's loving the game 'Shhh, don't wake dad' at the moment. It was given to him for Christmas by one of the girls. He's now beginning to get the hang of the rules (though still ignores them...). However, at the outset, it was a case of talking him through the entire game. It's mercifully quite a quick game though. I have to point out that I did win the first game (yes, I was playing fair!). However it was downhill from there. The second game was won by Joshua, who only just beat me to the finishing line (which in this game is a fridge). It got worse though. He decided that Mole and Teddy needed to join in the action. So I was taking charge of making sure Mole didn't cheat, and Joshua was keeping an eye on Teddy. Mole is a draught (draft) excluder, Teddy is ... uh ... a teddy. Of course, we had to spin the spinner for them, but they did help move their pieces around the board. The inevitable happened though. Mole won. I could see it coming too, and was almost overcome by the temptation to cheat to enable one of the non-stuffed-toy players to win, but managed to resist and instead accept defeat at the hands (?!) of Mole.
Ah the joys and burden of responsibility!