Is the harsh rounding your own choice or a 10/10 ruling?
You donāt get half the pay for half the job! Itās just how many of the individual goals I got, which was the first method which came to mind. But the other way seems more common.
End of year stats:
Santorini - 1
Isle of Skye - 3 (+2)
Imperial Assault - 9
Arkham Horror LCG - 8
Kingdomino - 10 (+1)
Treasure Island - 2
Marvel Legendary - 2
Black Orchestra - 2
Ghost Stories - 4 (+1)
Quacks of Quedlinburg - 4
For a grand total of 45 plays. I meant to get more solo plays in, which would have finished Arkham Horror and done more for Black Orchestra, but I often just found myself lacking the motivation to set the games up to play.
Santorini had one play, but I think it is too chess-like for my wife, my primary gaming partner, so that never hit the table again after the first play.
Imperial Assault should have been finished, but any time we planned to play it, we had a really rough day with the kids and lacked the energy to play a 2+ hour game after they went to bed. Hoping to play our last Hoth campaign mission sometime this weekend since I have had some time off, but there are a lot of other things we want to do, too, so it may not happen.
I am a little embarrassed that Quacks did not get finished, as I put it down as an easy one, and we always have a good time when we play it.
Still, I am pretty confident that I did play 100 games this year. There were definitely 10 plays of Unmatched. A few games of TTR: London, Azul, Istanbul, and Concordia. Tried out Everdell. Played a bit of Marvel Champions solo. And lots of Jaipur and Patchwork, as well as the 5 games we have played from our 12 Games of Christmas which werenāt on my 10x10. Plus games with friends over Zoom or TTS. It was a decent year of gaming, even with all the social distancing.
I may go for something different for 2021 though. Maybe a 20 x 5 (20 games, 5 plays). Spreads out the games a bit and is not as demanding, I feel. Weāll see.
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Mine finished with 90% played
Codenames, The Crew, Gloomhaven, Nusfjord, Spirit Island and Sprawlopolis got their 10+ plays.
Missing 2 games of Pandemic Legacy (if I count our 2 testgames for season 2 that might be done)
Wingspan 8/10
Clank! legacy 8/10
Root 7/10
It is obvious which games could be easily soloed or played online.
I logged 221 plays for 71 different games this year 
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Finished at 77/100:
| game | plays |
|---|---|
| Maidenās Quest | 10/10 |
| Go 500 Racing | 10/10 |
| Rallyman GT | 10/10 |
| Rallyman | 10/10 |
| Lux Aeterna | 2/10 |
| Flamme Rouge | 10/10 |
| D-Day Dice | 0/10 |
| Baseball Highlights: 2045 | 4/10 |
| FUSE | 10/10 |
| NMBR 9 | 1/10 |
| V-Commandos | 10/10 |
I enjoyed Maidenās Quest - not sure Iāll play it again soon, because the setup is more faff than it needs to be, but the actual gameplay is decent and I really like the mechanical design.
Go 500 - obviously pretty random but enjoyable even so. (I ended up running a small racing season on BGG.) Still never actually seen a physical copy of the game; I donāt think it was ever exported outside the USA.
Rallyman and Rallyman GT - well, yeah, obviously.
Lux Aeterna - two games was enough to say that I can admire it mechanically but it leaves me entirely cold.
Flamme Rouge - hmm, maybe I should run another tour.
D-Day Dice - I still have not opened my (much-delayed) Kickstarter package.
Baseball Highlights 2045 - still like the game but this was one of the two (along with NMBR 9) where I thought āif I force myself to play it a lot, Iāll come to like it lessā. I have a friend who doesnāt like online gaming but is very eager to try this when we can meet again.
FUSE - it tells you up front what itās going to give you and it gives you that, nothing more or less. I havenāt generally liked Kane Klenkoās more complex designs but this one is just right for me.
V-Commandos - mostly by forum, though I do like it in person. (There are some promo bits I donāt have in real life.)
I did have an Eddington number (āH factorā) of 11 overall:
| Rallyman: GT | 171 |
| Letter Tycoon | 60 |
| VOLT | 48 |
| Flamme Rouge | 16 |
| Canāt Stop | 15 |
| Red7 | 15 |
| 6 nimmt! | 14 |
| Go 500 Racing Dice Game | 14 |
| Automobiles | 13 |
| Machi Koro | 12 |
| Rallyman | 11 |
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I was flying when March came. From this list Concordia has now been traded, Iāve fallen for Brass Birmingham in a big way. My wife is sick to death of Flamme Rouge. I really like Air, Land and Sea as a game, but the theme just doesnāt inspire me to play it.
To be honest, we probably went too hard at the start of the year, which meant we wanted a new experience from the games at the top of the list.
I really enjoyed this challenge and I suspect Iāll come back to it in 2022. As I said in my Goals 2021 post my aim is to play 3+ games of 20-30 games to try to get a feel for where my tastes are and then decide which games are going to be kept and which will be traded.
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So. Didnāt really have much motivation in December. The loss of the campaigns rendered this a certain failure, but at least Iām having more fun with the D&D game than Tainted Grail offered. Suburbia is one I found I really didnāt enjoy that much, and will be passing along at the next opportunity. Klask will be good under different circumstances. This year, it just didnāt happen. I had planned to do Dominion League this year, but didnāt. So there went that.
So a final score of 3/10, or 50/100.
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Well done on your challenge results, everyone! Lots of good gaming done, whatever the end total.
December results:
| Game | December | Total | Complete? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Android: Netrunner | 4 | [20/20] |  |
| KnitWit | - | [5/5] | |
| Council of Verona | - | [5/5] | |
| Just One | - | [4/5] | |
| Bridges to Nowhere | - | [7/5] | |
| Treasure Island | - | [1/5] | |
| KeyForge | 10 | [79/5] | |
| The Bloody Inn | 2 | [5/5] | |
| Gloom | - | [2/5] | |
| Alhambra | - | [5/5] | |
| Cottage Garden | - | [3/5] | |
| Castles of Burgundy | 2 | [3/5] | |
| Clank! in Space | - | [1/5] | |
| Masque of the Red Death* | - | [0/5] |  |
| Dead of Winter | - | [2/5] | |
| A Feast for Odin | - | [1/5] | |
| Eldritch Horror | - | [1/5] |
Stats:
- 68 of 100 target plays achieved
- Targets completed for 41% of games
- 143 plays of challenge games when overruns are included (mostly thanks to my new favourtie, KeyForge)
- 94% of games played at least once (not the right year for Masque of the Red Death with 3+ players required)
What with one thing and another, < 60 minute games that work well with two players were the most successful, while longer games did not go so well. Nevertheless, lockdown was good for gaming in general; itās safe to say this yearās total of 234 plays and 65 different games far surpasses all previous tallies.
Looking forward to choosing games for the 2021 10x10 style challenge started by @Captbnut! 
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Whelp, surprising nobody (and especially me), my results have once again remained static. And Iām okay with thatā¦ December is an awful time of year in my house, and I survived it. AND published a new novel (one which I am disproportionately proud of, being my first YA sci-fi novelā¦ hopefully not my last, although it is a genre thatās trickier to write well).
Anyway. Games! Most significant thing for me is that I wrote my 2021 Challenge list without referencing back to this one, and I see that a few didnāt make the cut for the year (Scythe, Forbidden Stars, and Legacy of Dragonholt, specifically). Which is too bad, reallyā¦ I love all those games, and my include them later.
As for if I played anything in Decemberā¦ I played a few games of Under Falling Skies, which is quite delightful, although I played it co-op with my partner once (because I rarely have time for single player games these days). Oh, and I opened and read the rules to Schotten Totten 2, being a big fan of the original. It might be betterā¦ havenāt tried it yet, though.
Anyways, so long and farewell to my 2020 challenge. Itās been a long December but thereās reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the lastā¦
goes off humming to himself
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