10x5 Challenge
| Game | Plays |
|---|---|
| Bus | 0 |
| Chicago Express | 0 |
| Cthulhu Wars | 0 |
| Food Chain Magnate | 3 |
| Glory to Rome | 0 |
| The Great Zimbabwe | 1 |
| Indonesia | 0 |
| Innovation | 3 |
| Mottainai | 0 |
| Pax Renaissance | 0 |
Go 365 Challenge
0/365
Race for the Hundred Galaxies
0/100
Through the Twenty Ages
1/20
January lookin good so far!
Huzzah! I finished a game from my list for the first time in… well, since 2019 at the very least!
Maybe I should replace it with a new addition… hmmm… oh! I’m going to add Battletech to the list. We’ll see if I can finish 10 plays of 10 games that are on the list by the end of the year.
Right. My City was a joy to play and finish. It was pretty close up until Chapter 6 when I started having spiralling victories, so much so that I had to start playing poorly just to make sure Andy didn’t get blown out of the water. But aside from that, great fun.
We’re playing D&D tonight, so I’m including it in the tally, but we usually meet every other week or so for 2-3 hours. It’s still a lot of fun, but the group is starting to mutter about playing different rule sets. I’m okay with that, but I’m curious what kind of game they want to play. I might suggest Mouseguard… I’ve had the box set sitting downstairs for probably 5 years now. Might be nice. But likewise Andy might want to suggest Coyote & Crow, which I’ll admit sounds fascinating, but I haven’t checked the rules. Oh, and of course we could play either Blades in the Dark or Scum and Villainy… anyways, the moral of that story is there are no shortage of options.
Was supposed to play Oathsworn on Sunday, but it was snowed out. Ah well.
Other than these, I managed to get an online BGA game of Lost Ruins of Arnak in with the folks that were snowed out of coming over for Oathsworn, and that was neat, plus a bunch of games of Splendor. And two games of Battletech, which it turns out is great fun (even if Nick has a somewhat annoying habit of hitting my mechs right in the cockpit with an AC20… for reference, an AC20 does 20 points of damage, and the heaviest cockpit in the heaviest mech in the game has 13 points of health. Sooooo…
But you gotta laugh at stuff like that. It’s not a serious game.
Managed to actually play a game of Renature, a gift from a friend it wasn’t a good fit for. It’s… nice? A bit mean for my personal tastes, but I can see why people really like it. Good fun. Not sure it’ll stay in the collection, but I’m glad we tried it.
Heat is really easy to solo play, if you have trouble getting people to play it, and it doesn’t take very long. So you should have no problem getting 10 plays of it in the year.
For the 10×10:
| Game | Plays |
|---|---|
| Rallyman: GT | 4 (+4) |
| Tsuro | 4 (+4) |
| Turncoats | 3 (+3) |
| Flash Point: Fire Rescue | 2 (+2) |
| Heat: Pedal to the Metal | 2 (+2) |
| Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition | 2 (+2) |
| Timeline: Events | 2 (+2) |
| VOLT | 2 (+2) |
| Xenon Profiteer | 2 (+2) |
| Xia: Legends of a Drift System | 2 (+2) |
and I’d be happy to play more of any of those.
No progress on 52 Game. This is now a software problem and I may need to learn Prolog.
Wait. How do you solo-play a race?
I think I know who is going to win…
Lightweight bots. One of the best systems I’ve seen (though the simplicity of the core gameplay loop certainly helps).
smacks head
Bots. Duh.
I am not braining very well today
? X ? = 100 Challenge
| Game | Month | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game | 2 | 2 |
| Dune: Imperium | 2 | 2 |
| The Isle of Cats | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 5 | [5/100] |
It’s a start.
Keyforge 4 x 25 Challenge
No progress 
Opportunity 50 x 2
| Game | Month | Total | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dune: Imperium | 2 | [2/2] |  |
| The Fuzzies | 5 | [5/2] | |
| Grove: A 9 card solitaire game | 4 | [4/2] | |
| Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game | 2 | [2/2] | |
| Mint Delivery | 1 | [1/2] | |
| Pluckin’ Pairs | 1 | [1/2] | |
| Tiny Towns | 2 | [2/2] | |
| Progress | 12% |
Plenty of opportunities taken in January. All were enjoyed, even the dubious looking Pluckin’ Pairs, which arrived in a rather disappointing mystery box last year.
Have a flamboyant February of gaming everyone!
Play at least once:
Since this only applies to my own copy of the game, I have managed none of these 
Play all my unplayed games:
Changed slightly due to some trades.
I thought we played TGZ at UK Games Expo last year?
We did. The first list is play at least once in 2023 
My 2023 goals are pretty much the extended goals I upgraded to last summer for 2022. Hopefully I’ll be able to boost some of them up a touch again this summer.
Also aiming to make a bigger dent on the unplayed (at start of year) list this time.
Already made good progress.
? X ? = 100 Challenge
| Game | Month | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Wingspan | 3 | 3 |
| Dune: Imperium | 1 | 3 |
| MicroMacro: Crime City | 2 | 2 |
| Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game | - | 2 |
| Alchemists | 1 | 1 |
| Radlands | 1 | 1 |
| Terraforming Mars | 1 | 1 |
| The Isle of Cats | - | 1 |
| Total | 9 | 14 |
Good progress for the short month. Loving all these games.
Keyforge 4 x 25 Challenge
| Deck | Month | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Unruly “The Wiper” Dmitrii | 4 | 4 |
| Total | 4 | 4 |
Dmitrii is up and running, and has proven jolly good fun so far.
Opportunity 50 x 2
| Game | Month | Total | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Fuzzies | 2 | [7/2] | |
| Grove: A 9 card solitaire game | - | [4/2] | |
| Dune: Imperium | 1 | [3/2] | |
| Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game | - | [2/2] | |
| MicroMacro: Crime City | 2 | [2/2] | |
| Tiny Towns | - | [2/2] | |
| Terraforming Mars | 1 | [1/2] | |
| Mint Delivery | - | [1/2] | |
| Pluckin’ Pairs | - | [1/2] | |
| Progress | 15% |
A few more added to the total. Very satisfying to finally play Terraforming Mars.
Have a merry March of gaming everyone!
Play at least once:
Antiquity
Escape Plan
Yokohama
Troyes
Tzolk’in: The Mayan Calendar
Gaia Project
Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space
Scythe
Tiny Epic Dinosaurs
Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile
Food Chain Magnate
The Great Zimbabwe
Teotihuacan: City of Gods
The Taverns of Tiefenthal
Root
SHASN
Burano
Sidereal Confluence:
Mottainai
On Mars
Altiplano
New York 1901
Quadropolis
Bosk
Fields of Green
Awkward Guests
Bärenpark
Forks
Import / Export: Definitive Edition
Caverna: The Cave Farmers
TOKYO METRO
Pipeline
Play all my unplayed games:
1775: Rebellion
Airship City
Canopy
Cloud City
Concordia
The Crew 2
Flying Colours
Ginkgopolis
The Great Fire of London 1666
IKI
Imhotep
In a Grove
Inkling
John Company 2E
Kodachi
Loot
Napolean’s Imperium
Pendulum
Polarity
Super-skill Pinball: Ramp it Up!
Tsukuyumi: Full Moon Down
Twins
Some progress!
IKI is another one that I fancy. How long is AireCon?
February
10x5 (28% complete - ahead of schedule)
| Game | Plays |
|---|---|
| Bus | 1 |
| Chicago Express | 0 |
| Cthulhu Wars | 1 |
| Food Chain Magnate | 4 |
| Glory to Rome | 1 |
| The Great Zimbabwe | 1 |
| Indonesia | 0 |
| Innovation | 3 |
| Mottainai | 1 |
| Pax Renaissance | 2 |
Go 365 Challenge
0/365
Race for the Hundred Galaxies
3/100
Through the Twenty Ages
1/20
Anything but the solo challenge is unrealistic this year.
But this one is looking pretty good and it is not all small games but all games are quick playing with significantly reduced playtime as a solo.
| Game | Plays |
|---|---|
| Rallyman: GT | 5 (+1) |
| Tsuro | 5 (+1) |
| Flash Point: Fire Rescue | 4 (+2) |
| Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition | 4 (+2) |
| Xia: Legends of a Drift System | 4 (+2) |
| Heat: Pedal to the Metal | 3 (+1) |
| Timeline: Events | 3 (+1) |
| Turncoats | 3 |
| VOLT | 3 (+1) |
and then all the 2-plays…
| Game | Plays |
|---|---|
| Just One | 2 (+2) |
| Morels | 2 (+2) |
| Mysterium | 2 (+1) |
| Rallyman | 2 (+2) |
| SCOUT | 2 (+1) |
| Xenon Profiteer | 2 |
I’m pretty sure I’ve played ten games of Joan of Arc. Not that I planned on this or anything.
I’ve just opened an async Just One table (link on the Async recruiting thread).
It works pretty well async
