2023 Board game challenges

May Results

? X ? = 100 Challenge

Game Month Total Status
Wingspan 3 [14/10] :white_check_mark:
Dune: Imperium 2 [5]
Baseball Highlights: 2045 - [2]
Biblios - [2]
MicroMacro: Crime City - [2]
Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game - [2]
Alchemists - [1]
Flamecraft 1 [1]
The Isle of Cats - [1]
Radlands 1 [2]
Terraforming Mars - [1]
Total 4 29

Inching along.

KeyForge 4 x 25 Challenge

Deck Month Total
Unruly “The Wiper” Dmitrii 1 [15/25]
Elias, Geologist of the Grasping Clubhouse 15 [15/25]
Total 16 30

A good month for the KeyForge challenge. Elias is an instant favourite and has pulled off a number of wins against more highly ranked decks.

Opportunity 50 x 2

Game Month Total Status
The Fuzzies - [7/2] :white_check_mark:
Grove: A 9 card solitaire game 2 [6/2] :white_check_mark:
Dune: Imperium 2 [5/2] :white_check_mark:
Illiterati - [4/2] :white_check_mark:
Palm Island 3 [3/2] :white_check_mark:
Sunset Over Water 1 [3/2] :white_check_mark:
Valletta 3 [3/2] :white_check_mark:
7 Wonders Duel - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Baseball Highlights: 2045 - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Lady Richmond: Ein erzocktes Erb 2 [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
MicroMacro: Crime City - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Mint Delivery 1 [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Punto 1 [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Tiny Towns - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Champions of Midgard - [1/2]
Mystery Rummy: Jekyll & Hyde - [1/2]
Pluckin’ Pairs - [1/2]
Terraforming Mars - [1/2]
Progress 34%

Some good finds on the shelf of opportunity. Lady Richmond was a huge hit with its inheritance shenanigans and avoidance of poodles and pickles. Also loving the calm city building of Valletta.

Have a jovial June of gaming everyone!

6 Likes

End of May

10x5 (56% complete - ahead of schedule)

Game Plays
Age of Steam 4
Chicago Express 1
Cthulhu Wars 2
Food Chain Magnate 6 :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face:
Glory to Rome 2
The Great Zimbabwe 2
Indonesia 1
Innovation 3
Mottainai 5 :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face:
Pax Renaissance 3

Removed

Game Reason
Bus Sold the game for silly money and reprint is unofficially announced

Go 365 Challenge
0/365

Race for the Hundred Galaxies
28/100

Through the Twenty Ages
1/20

Five Carriages But No Horses
Horseless Carriage 2/5

Unlock Scenarios:
24 scenarios left

Levee En Masse - DONE
Beat Pandemic Rising Tide on highest difficulty

Spanish Boo-Boo
Beat Pandemic Iberia on highest difficulty with the advance variant

Ark-cough Horror
Beat Pandemic Cthulhu on highest difficulty

Comments:
Got a new tablet which allows me to play RFTG during my free time. Allows me to explore Brink of War without being anxious of the rules weight as I am playing with AI, not with my friends.

3 Likes

Top ten by plays, well, see the sign of the game demonstrator… :slight_smile:

(Also holidays intervened, so basically I’ve had Expo, one local game group night, and one Thirsty Meeples night this month.)

Game Plays
Ensemble 38 (+38)
Rallyman: GT 14 (+1)
Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition 13 (+1)
Project L 7
Werewords 7
Crokinole 6
Piepmatz 6 (+1)
Rallyman: DIRT 6
Hanamikoji 5
Just One 5
Rallyman 5
Tsuro 5
Xia: Legends of a Drift System 5

I may take some of these out with me more, particularly Project L and Piepmatz that are usually popular.

5 Likes

Not a great month for games on the list, but I did get to play a game of Twilight Imperium 4th Ed (without Prophecy of Kings, sadly), so much is forgiven. It was a great game, albeit a learning one for the other three players… I love playing the Barony, but their 2 Commodities is a huge handicap for a race that relies so heavily on Trade Goods for their more significant racial power to matter. Still, I managed to leverage the Jol-Nar’s racial promissary note into Assault Cannons (which helped for the 1 significant battle all game), and I had Warsuns before anyone else, but the game ended before I could really flex them too much.

We continue our slog through Oathsworn, which is still a very fine game, and I’m hopeful that I can get a bunch of Legion and Battletech games in before long.

The playthrough of Merchants of Venus from last month confirmed that, while good, I don’t need to own it (thankfully!). It’s a pretty watered-down version of Xia. And I’m almost finished painting all my SW Legion models, which means I can start (and probably finish) my Battletech models (33 on the painting table at the moment), and then I can assemble and maybe play my copy of Shatterpoint.

Here’s hoping July is a good month!

6 Likes

End of May

10x5 (64% complete - ahead of schedule)

Game Plays
Age of Steam 4
Chicago Express 1
Cthulhu Wars 2
Food Chain Magnate 6 :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face:
Glory to Rome 5 :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face:
The Great Zimbabwe 2
Indonesia 1
Innovation 3
Mottainai 5 :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face:
Pax Renaissance 4

Removed

Game Reason
Bus Sold the game for silly money and reprint is unofficially announced

Go 365 Challenge
0/365

Race for the Hundred Galaxies
31/100

Through the Twenty Ages
1/20

Five Carriages But No Horses
Horseless Carriage 2/5

Unlock Scenarios:
24 scenarios left

Levee En Masse - DONE
Beat Pandemic Rising Tide on highest difficulty

Spanish Boo-Boo
Beat Pandemic Iberia on highest difficulty with the advance variant

Ark-cough Horror - DONE
Beat Pandemic Cthulhu on highest difficulty

Comments:
Splotters and Cthulhu Wars are lagging behind. I need to stop being lazy and bring CW to the club

5 Likes

My (dynamic) solo challenge is sitting at

  • Agropolis 10/10
  • Cascadia 10+/10
  • Naturopolis 10/10
  • Trailblazers 10+/10
  • Turing Machine 8/10 (I have no motivation to take it out again, I think this game may have severely reduced my interest in pure deduction game. For all that they are not really, the puzzles are too simple—there is no thematic dressing to distract me and so it just feels a little like work. It took me a few to realize this.)
  • 51st State Ultimate 6/10 really need to get back to this, but the theme fits better with the rainy months
  • Food Chain Island 4//10
  • Distilled 3/10
  • Evergreen 3/10
  • Oranienburger Kanal 3/10

I played over 10 games of Next Station London/Tokyo combined on BGA but decided to exclude games I don‘t own from this. While my other challenges counting BGA plays is fine. I feel like the solo challenge must at least be on the table.

I need 2 more plays still to get to H-index 17 :slight_smile:

My multiplayer Top 10 is stuck at 39/100 with most of those games being on BGA. Very few occasions for multiplayer games. I expected this year to be „slow“.

3 Likes

Progress!

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
High Society
Sub Terra 2
East India Co.s
Lacrimosa
Scout
That Time You Killed Me
String Railway
A Fake Artist Goes to New York
Cat in the Box

4 Likes

What charming naivety. Games acquired at UKGE (not all my husband’s fault though):

  • The King is Dead
  • Serenissima
  • Clash of Cultures
  • Cloudspire
  • The Red Cathedral
  • Europa Universalis
  • Passing Through Petra
  • Hiroba
  • Wok and Roll
  • Wingspan Asia
  • Broken and Beautiful

We’ve played Cloudspire, but none of the others so far!

7 Likes

June Results

? X ? = 100 Challenge

Game Month Total Status
Wingspan 5 [19/10] :white_check_mark:
Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn 8 [8]
Dune: Imperium 1 [6]
Radlands 1 [3]
Baseball Highlights: 2045 - [2]
Biblios - [2]
MicroMacro: Crime City - [2]
Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game - [2]
Alchemists - [1]
Flamecraft - [1]
The Isle of Cats - [1]
Terraforming Mars - [1]
Total (excluding exceedances) 10 39

A good month! Learned Ashes with the Red Rains solo expansion, which was a lot to take in. Think I have the rules under control now for Aradel Summergaard and the Chimera’s Shadow aspest. It remains to be seen how things go with a different Phoenixborn or the other Chimera aspect :sweat_smile:

Keyforge 4 x 25 Challenge

Deck Month Total
Unruly “The Wiper” Dmitrii 8 [23/25]
Elias, Geologist of the Grasping Clubhouse 8 [23/25]
Total 16 46

Excellent progress with both decks, and it’s time to choose a third. Doesn’t sound like Winds of Exchange will arrive in time, but hopefully it’s on its way :ship:

Opportunity 50 x 2

Game Month Total Status
Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn 8 [8/2] :white_check_mark:
The Fuzzies 1 [8/2] :white_check_mark:
Palm Island 4 [7/2] :white_check_mark:
Grove: A 9 card solitaire game - [6/2] :white_check_mark:
Dune: Imperium 1 [6/2] :white_check_mark:
Sunset Over Water 3 [6/2] :white_check_mark:
Illiterati - [4/2] :white_check_mark:
Valletta - [3/2] :white_check_mark:
Lady Richmond: Ein erzocktes Erb 1 [3/2] :white_check_mark:
Mini Rogue: A 9-Card Print-and-Play Game 3 [3/2] :white_check_mark:
7 Wonders Duel - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Baseball Highlights: 2045 - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Champions of Midgard 1 [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Final Girl: The Haunting of Creech Manor 2 [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
MicroMacro: Crime City - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Mint Delivery - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Punto - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Tiny Towns - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Fury of Dracula 1 [1/2]
Mystery Rummy: Jekyll & Hyde - [1/2]
Pluckin’ Pairs - [1/2]
Terraforming Mars - [1/2]
Progress 42%

At the half way point, 23 previously unplayed games are now played and most of them more than once, which is pleasing.

Fury of Dracula was an entertaining all day epic, as expected, but it seems unlikely that it will get a second play this year.

Final Girl hasn’t lived up to the hype so far; perhaps it will become more thematic and less mechanical once the rules are more familiar.

Hope everyone’s July is jam-packed with gaming!

5 Likes

July Results

? X ? = 100 Challenge

Game Month Total Status
Wingspan - [19/10] :white_check_mark:
Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn 2 [10/10] :white_check_mark:
Dune: Imperium - [6]
Radlands - [3]
Baseball Highlights: 2045 - [2]
Biblios - [2]
MicroMacro: Crime City - [2]
Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game - [2]
Alchemists - [1]
Flamecraft - [1]
The Isle of Cats - [1]
Kashgar: Merchants of the Silk Road 1 [1]
Terraforming Mars - [1]
Total (excluding exceedances) 3 42

Not huge progress this month due to quite a bit of time away on business.

Keyforge 4 x 25 Challenge

Deck Month Total Status
Unruly “The Wiper” Dmitrii 4 [27/25] :white_check_mark:
Elias, Geologist of the Grasping Clubhouse 2 [25/25] :white_check_mark:
Autoene, the Baron of Information 2 [2/25]
Total (excluding exceedances) 6 52

Dmitrii and Elias complete! Autoene into action.

Opportunity 50 x 2

Game Month Total Status
Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn 2 [10/2] :white_check_mark:
Palm Island 3 [10/2] :white_check_mark:
Grove: A 9 card solitaire game 3 [9/2] :white_check_mark:
The Fuzzies - [8/2] :white_check_mark:
Dune: Imperium - [6/2] :white_check_mark:
Sunset Over Water - [6/2] :white_check_mark:
Illiterati - [4/2] :white_check_mark:
Lady Richmond: Ein erzocktes Erb - [3/2] :white_check_mark:
Mini Rogue: A 9-Card Print-and-Play Game - [3/2] :white_check_mark:
Valletta - [3/2] :white_check_mark:
7 Wonders Duel - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Baseball Highlights: 2045 - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Champions of Midgard - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Final Girl: The Haunting of Creech Manor - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
MicroMacro: Crime City - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Mint Delivery - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Punto - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Tiny Towns - [2/2] :white_check_mark:
Fury of Dracula - [1/2]
Mystery Rummy: Jekyll & Hyde - [1/2]
Pluckin’ Pairs - [1/2]
Terraforming Mars - [1/2]
Progress 42%

Nothing new this month. Palm Island is good when :airplane: .

Have an abundant August of gaming everyone!

5 Likes

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
High Society
Sub Terra 2
East India Co.s
Lacrimosa
Scout
That Time You Killed Me
String Railway
A Fake Artist Goes to New York
Cat in the Box
The King is Dead
Serenissima
Clash of Cultures
Cloudspire
The Red Cathedral
Europa Universalis
Passing Through Petra
Hiroba
Wok and Roll
Wingspan Asia
Broken and Beautiful
Ducks in tow
Imperial Steam
Orléans

We have a game of Europa Universalis planned this weekend and I’m also going to try and get Orléans knocked off the list

5 Likes

Nominal 10×10:

Game Plays
Ensemble 38
Rallyman: GT 18 (+4)
Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition 14 (+1)
Piepmatz 8 (+2)
Project L 7
Werewords 7
Crokinole 6
Flash Point: Fire Rescue 6 (+2)
Rallyman: DIRT 6
Tsuro 6 (+1)
Xia: Legends of a Drift System 6 (+1)

Chances are fairly good I’ll get to 10 on Piepmatz and Project L, and it’s guaranteed for Rallyman and Dirt. Not playing anything like enough Crokinole; oh dear whatever shall I do about that?

Highest-value X×Y is still the ×1: 92 distinct games 1 time each.

5 Likes

End of July

10x5 (74% complete - ahead of schedule)

Game Plays
Age of Steam 4
Chicago Express 3
Cthulhu Wars 3
Food Chain Magnate 6 :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face:
Glory to Rome 5 :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face:
The Great Zimbabwe 3
Indonesia 1
Innovation 4
Mottainai 5 :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face:
Pax Renaissance 4

Removed

Game Reason
Bus Sold the game for silly money and reprint is unofficially announced

Go 365 Challenge
0/365

Race for the Hundred Galaxies
34/100

Through the Twenty Ages
1/20

Five Carriages But No Horses - Abandoned
Horseless Carriage 3/5

Unlock Scenarios:
24 scenarios left

Levee En Masse - DONE
Beat Pandemic Rising Tide on highest difficulty

Spanish Boo-Boo
Beat Pandemic Iberia on highest difficulty with the advance variant

Ark-cough Horror - DONE
Beat Pandemic Cthulhu on highest difficulty

Comments:
Indonesia is lagging behind but so far it’s alright. Still ahead of schedule. I don’t think I can play Horseless Carriage as it competes with FCM, TGZ, and Indonesia’s time.

3 Likes

Well, a pretty slow July, sadly. A few games in there, but nothing really noteworthy. I have a game of Eclipse 2nd Dawn scheduled for Thursday, but it’s not on the list, soooo…

Oh, and I’m heading down to London (Ontario) to hang out with an old gaming friend. Means I might actually get a few games of SW Legion and/or Battletech in. The plan is to hang out for about 7 hours and cram as many games as humanly possible into that time.

So I did manage to finish painting all my SW Legion models (I have since purchased a few more… Ewoks, Han Solo, and an A-A5 Speeder Truck… oh, and two units of Commandos), and then managed to finish all my Battletech. I am currently working on my Shatterpoint models (I’ve finished 8 of the 9 Good Guys, will finish Anakin today, probably, and then start and hopefully finish all the Bad Guys this week… I don’t really care to do a very precise job with the baddies, since I’m really only painting them for completion’s sake, and so if anyone wants to come over and try the game I have painted models to use). After that I’m going to blitz a bunch of terrain, and then after that… I dunno? Either finish painting my Legion (again), or paint up Oathsworn or Stuffed Fables, both of which we are playing through with different groups.

I have one game currently set aside for me at work (Spots, which I think the SU&SD folks said was “quite good”).

Here’s hoping August is better than July!

4 Likes

Last month was so nerve-wracking… not much gaming done. And most of these solos were on BGA. The only not-solo game I played was Hardback.

So the solo challenge rests at more or less the previous state except that It‘s a Wonderful World has replaced Turing Machine which I am not planning to play again solo. Well, until I decide that BGA plays just don‘t count at all (but they fit into boring meetings or coffee breaks)

Next month will not be any better. I am holding out for September and the colder months following…

I have 1 play left to get my H-Index to 18. Considering I have only been tracking plays for a few years I am not unhappy about that.

6 Likes

I haven’t been posting here because I did not make an official challenge this year, but per my usual “play more of my unplayed games” goal, I did rather well this month, getting Nemesis, High Society, The Quest for El Dorado, Maquis, and Resist! to the table. And if you include June, I also got Star Wars: the Clone Wars and Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest played. July also marks the highest number of game plays in a month for this year with 33 plays. So, rather pleased with that.

6 Likes

Nominal 10×10:

Game Plays
Ensemble 38
Rallyman: GT 20 (+2)
Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition 18 (+4)
Rallyman: DIRT 12 (+6)
Piepmatz 8
Project L 7
Rallyman 7 (+2)
Werewords 7
Crokinole 6
Flash Point: Fire Rescue 6
Just One 6 (+1)
Tsuro 6
Xia: Legends of a Drift System 6

Highest Eddington number: 7×7.
Highest X×Y: 99 distinct games played at least once = 99.

4 Likes

End of August

10x5 (82% complete - ahead of schedule)

Game Plays
Age of Steam 4
Chicago Express 4
Cthulhu Wars 3
Food Chain Magnate 6 :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face:
Glory to Rome 5 :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face:
The Great Zimbabwe 4
Indonesia 2
Innovation 4
Mottainai 5 :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face:
Pax Renaissance 5 :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face:

Removed

Game Reason
Bus Sold the game for silly money and reprint is unofficially announced

Go 365 Challenge
0/365

Race for the Hundred Galaxies
67/100

Through the Twenty Ages
1/20

Five Carriages But No Horses - Abandoned
Horseless Carriage 3/5

Unlock Scenarios:
24 scenarios left

Levee En Masse - DONE
Beat Pandemic Rising Tide on highest difficulty

Spanish Boo-Boo
Beat Pandemic Iberia on highest difficulty with the advance variant

Ark-cough Horror - DONE
Beat Pandemic Cthulhu on highest difficulty

Comments:
not much to add really. Other than, wtf, people in the games club don’t want to play Innovation with me!?

2 Likes

Today will be day 715 of the “play a game every day” challenge. I wonder if I might stop soon now that I’m back full speed on the Steam train with the new pc added to the existing steam deck.

Challenges

Games at 3 plays and above.

5 Likes

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
High Society
Sub Terra 2
East India Co.s
Lacrimosa
Scout
That Time You Killed Me
String Railway
A Fake Artist Goes to New York
Cat in the Box
The King is Dead
Serenissima
Clash of Cultures
Cloudspire
The Red Cathedral
Europa Universalis
Passing Through Petra
Hiroba
Wok and Roll
Wingspan Asia
Broken and Beautiful
Ducks in tow
Imperial Steam
Orléans
535
Enemy Anemone

3 Likes