Finally pushed over the 200 different games played this year mark. Phew. Bit of a sprint the last couple of months. My original target of 100 fell so quickly that I thought this would be no problem, but I forgot how the autumn term as a teacher destroys your gaming time.
10*10 will be no problem to finish this month.
Year so far
10*10
Now that I have verified I remember my BGA login, I’d be happy to play something async!
Race for the Galaxy or Troyes both work well with 2+ players. What do you fancy first?
T&E is not my area of expertise, but would join a game
I will join in whatever decided if thats ok. At least you will know that you wont come last.
Let’s go with Troyes, as I think I grasp the rules of it better than Race.
Invites sent.
Be aware, there is no ‘undo’ button
Do, or do not. There is no undo.
@COMaestro now you’ve ticked off Troyes, do you want to play Race for the Galaxy?
Sure, why not? I will need to review the rules, but that shouldn’t be a big deal.
| Game | Plays |
|---|---|
| El Grande | 3 |
| Tigris & Euphrates | 17 |
| Stephenson’s Rocket | 5 |
| Inis | 0 |
| The Great Zimbabwe | 5 |
| 1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties | 10 |
| 1828 | 12 |
| 1860: Railways of the Isle of Wight | 13 |
| Game | Plays |
|---|---|
| Discontinued | |
| Railways of the World | 10 |
| Calimala | 1 |
| Senators | 4 |
| ========================= |
20 New to Me
| Game | Played? |
|---|---|
| Wallenstein 2nd ed | Yes |
| Traders of Genoa | Yes |
| Warpgate | No |
| Magnate: First City | Yes |
| Argent: the Consortium | Yes |
| Pax Renaissance | Yes |
| Vinhos Deluxe | No |
| Ortus Regni | No |
| Kaivai | Yes |
| Versailles 1919 | Yes |
| In the Shadow of the Emperor | Yes |
| Senji | No |
| Import/Export | Yes |
| Path of Light & Shadow | Yes |
| Brick & Mortar | No |
| Amyitis | Yes |
| Ys | Yes |
| Qin | Yes |
| Dual Gauge | Yes |
| Harzbahn 1873 | Yes |
That was a good 10x10 despite not finishing them. Playing Tigris this year is very good and played it with good players at the OG Guild. S-Rocket and TGZ got a good amount of plays. Alas, curation took a lot of my time.
What’s funny is I end up playing more Railways of the World because guilders love to play it!
For next year, I have a better idea on how to setup challenges. Glad to see everyone’s efforts this year!
I actually managed my solo10x10 (dynamic not preplanned)
A lot of games with animals this year…
Games that almost made it:
Other Solo games I thought I would play this year and largely did not:
In the end:
| Game | Plays |
|---|---|
| Rallyman: GT | 50 (+2) |
| Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition | 28 |
| Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game | 26 |
| Lemminge | 21 (+1) |
| Automobiles | 19 |
| VOLT | 19 (+1) |
| Rallyman | 11 |
| Dulce | 9 |
| Flash Point: Fire Rescue | 9 (+3) |
| VektoRace | 8 (+1) |
so that’s Eddington 9 for the year.
I’ve hit almost all of my goals for the year, and then hit several updated goals at double the numbers of the original ones!
100x1, 10x10, and 20x5 all were no problem.
Then I managed 200x1 and 40x5 as extra goals.
The play once every day goal was going fine (and I succeeded with playing abl game every day in 2022) so I added an average of 2 plays a day goal which was also no problem.
The only original goal I failed was to play every unplayed game that I owned at the start of the year. Still yet to play the following:
I also nearly managed 20x10 and 50x5 as extra extra targets.
December was a heavy gaming month:
I think this image sums up the ridiculous scale of my plays this year (with 94 of these games being new to me this year):
In the end, not a lot of motion on my “I Really Wanna Play These” list, but better than last year by a fair margin! And I did get in a fair amount of gaming over the last two weeks, so really, no complaints.
We played Cat in the Box, and Scout, and several rounds of the fantastic A Tale of Pirates (which I didn’t know was designed by the Flamme Rouge / Heat guys! It totally is! It’s great!). We just hit the halfway point in My City (Andy’s 16 to my 15… she’s winning all the games, but I have more gold nuggets in my display case than her, so I’m keeping up that way!). Played a couple rounds of Anomia and pulled out The Fuzzies and Phantom Ink last night, as well as playing our first game of Team3 which was really fun!
Oh yeah! We also played Descent! It was great! Andy’s periodic headaches stopped us from pulling it out again, but I’m hoping maybe tomorrow, if she’s feeling up to it. Gorgeous game, and a lot of fun! I expected the first chapter to be quite short, but it was a full episode. Really neat stuff! We haven’t had a chance to explore the city yet (the “between mission” part of the game), but I’m curious how it will work.
Well, so long 2022. Hello new year and new efforts!
End of December/Year update:
10 x Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion - 4
10 x Spirit Island - 5 [1]
[X] 10 x Marvel Champions - 10+
[X] 10 x Unmatched - 10+
[X] 5 x Arkham Horror the card game - 5
[X] 5 x Tyrants of the Underdark - 5+
5 x High Society
5 x Night of the Ninja
5 x Hansa Teutonica
5 x Star Wars: Imperial Assault
5 x Lost Ruins of Arnak
5 x The Search for Planet X - 2
1 x Unfathomable
[X] 1 x Troyes - 1 [1]
1 x Kemet
1 x Inis
1 x Five Tribes
1 x Dungeon Petz
1 x Lowlands
[X] 1 x Downforce - 1
[X] 1 x Raccoon Tycoon - 1+
1 x Star Wars: Outer Rim
1 x Exit: the Secret Lab
[X] 1 x Star Wars: Unlock - 1+ [2]
1 x World Monuments
1 x Tigris and Euphrates
[X] 1 x Princes of Florence - 1+
1 x Lawyer Up
1 x A War of Whispers
[X] 1 x Race for the Galaxy - 1+ [2]
[X] 1 x Mr. Jack - 1+
[X] 1 x Lost Cities - 1+
Just four plays for the challenge, which gets me a painful 49/100 plays, just one short of the halfway mark! Big thanks to @captbnut for making Troyes and Race for the Galaxy happen!
On the bright side, I think I easily hit 100 plays of games from this list, as Lost Cities became our most played game of all time in just this year, with 50 plays. The remaining couple are easily made up with excess games of Unmatched, Marvel Champions, and a few others.
We also had a good number of plays of Ethnos, Everdell, Kingdomino, and other games, totaling over 300 plays this year. That’s pretty dang good, in my opinion!
Now to come up with a 2023 challenge!
Part 1: KeyForge 10x10
| No. | Set | Deck | Plays | Total | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Call of the Archons | Ms. J. Carmenbo | - | [16/10] |  |
| 02 | Call of the Archons | The Alchemist that Reviles Tempation | - | [12/10] | |
| 03 | Age of Ascension | Nevehelper of the Pirate’s Treehouse | - | [12/10] | |
| 04 | Age of Ascension | The Woman who Sportily Accelerates Raids | - | [23/10] | |
| 05 | Worlds Collide | Svensdottir of Marsborea | - | [13/10] | |
| 06 | Worlds Collide | Betabus, the Fist Warrior | 11 | [11/10] | |
| 07 | Mass Mutation | Zierha Ecimius, the Concrete and Inspired | - | [14/10] | |
| 08 | Mass Mutation | Random sealed deck TBC | - | [0/10] |  |
| 09 | Dark Tidings | Tallerpoet the “Mason” | 1 | [16/10] | |
| 10 | Dark Tidings | The Beast that Attacks with Gravverse | 9 | [11/10] | |
Happy with 90%, that’s at least a Distinction.
Part 2: Opportunity 50
| Month | Plays | Progress | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2 | [2/50] | On Tour, Monarch |
| February | 2 | [4/50] | Wits & Wagers, Friday |
| March | 4 | [8/50] | Firefly: Out to the Black, Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra, Great Western Trail, Battle Sheep |
| April | 0 | [8/50] | |
| May | 0 | [8/50] | |
| June | 4 | [12/50] | Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space, Sprawlopolis, Tiny Epic Defenders, Ascension: Darkness Unleashed |
| July | 2 | [14/50] | Masque of the Red Death, Word Nerd |
| August | 4 | [18/50] | Michael Strogoff, TINYforming Mars, Spring Meadow, Elder Sign |
| September | 5 | [23/50] | A War of Whispers, Orchard, Nine-Minute Kingdom, Radlands, 6 nimmt! |
| October | 9 | [32/50] | A Game of Thrones: The Card Game (Second Edition), Pyramid Poker, Biblios, Verdant, Agricola, A Walk in the Park, Decypto, Nytelyfe Solitaire, The Search for Planet X |
| November | 6 | [38/50] | Kashgar: Merchants of the Silk Road, Last Night on Earth, Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Herding Cats, The Isle of Cats, Magic the Gathering |
| December | 3 | [41/50] | The Resistance, Merchants of the Dark Road, Flamecraft |
Forty-one opportunities ticked off for the year is nothing to sneeze at.
Happy New Year 
and onto 2023 challenges all!
