2025 Board Game Challenge!

Boardgames
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Yes, from what I’ve heard, there’s a real risk of that!

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1.) Ah still not done but only a few left I think. I need to get my butt off the seat and put these games up on eBay/Facebook

2.) No. :frowning: I still have 4 games left in my shame pile. Will try to get those done by April

100 Plays Challenge: Total - 12/100

Game Plays
Age of Steam 1
Chicago Express 0
Cosmic Encounter 0
Cthulhu Wars 0
Dominant Species 1
Food Chain Magnate 2
The Great Zimbabwe 0
Guards of Atlantis 0
Imperial 2030/Imperial 0
Impulse 0
Indonesia 1
Innovation 1
Irish Gauge 0
Kingdom Builder 2
Pax Transhumanity 0
Ponzi Scheme 0
Prussian Rails 1
Ride the Rails 1
Seasons 2
Stephenson’s Rocket 0
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Play my unplayed games
  • Agropolis
  • Akropolis
  • The British Way
  • Caverna: Cave Vs Cave
  • Factory Funner
  • Glass Garden
  • Gloomhaven: Buttons and Bugs
  • Hipparchus
  • In a Grove
  • Kabuto Sumo
  • Lock
  • Loot
  • Molly House
  • Pendulum
  • Ptolemy
  • Santorini
  • Twins
  • Undaunted 2200
  • Vegetable Stock
  • Wingspan: Asia
  • Wonder Bowling
  • Zoo Vadis

I played Zoo Vadis at Airecon (thanks @Captbnut ) but I still need to play my copy.

Alphabet challenge

A: Azul
B: Brass Brum
C: Concordia
D: Deep Sea Adventure
E: Ecosystem
F: Flip 7
G: Ginkgopolis
H: Hiroba
I: It’s a Wonderful World
J: John Company 2E
K:
L:
M: Mino Dice
N: No Thanks!
O: Oranges and Lemons
P: Piña Coladice
Q:
R: R.O.V.E.
S: Sea Salt and Paper
T: Turncoats
U:
V:
W: Wonder Bowling
X: Xylotar
Y:
Z: Zoo Vadis

20 x 5
  • R.O.V.E. 5/5
  • Heat 5/5
  • Hive 5/5
  • Turncoats 4/5
  • Piña Coladice 3/5
  • Akropolis 2/5
  • Forks 2/5
  • NUMBR 9 2/5
  • No Thanks! 2/5
  • Oranges and Lemons 2/5
  • Strike 2/5
  • Switchbacks 2/5
  • Zoo Vadis 2/5
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March Results

10 X 10 Challenge

Game Month Total Status
Bullet :blue_heart: - [5/10]
Gaia Project - [4/10]
Meadow 1 [5/10]
Total 1 14

Just one stroll in the meadow for March.

Keyforge 10x10

Set Deck Month Total Win %:one: Status
Dark Tidings Bailiff Susannah Murklurker - [15/10] 13% :white_check_mark:
Grim Reminders Nextikaod, the Footman of The South 1 [1/10] 43%
Vault Masters 2024 The Automatic Apothecary of Disk’s Vault 10 [10/10] 45% :white_check_mark:
Tokens of Change Oscar “Jurassic Classic” Qvinpain 5 [15/10] 33% :white_check_mark:
Progress 31%

The Automatic Apothecary is good fun. Haven’t quite worked out the best lines of play for Qvinpain yet, but feels like it will be a force to be reckoned with once I get there.

:one: Includes pre-challenge plays for some decks

Monthly Mini Challenge
March: Play a least 4 games that require a decision regarding whether they stay or go off to the flea market.

2025-03 Mini Challenge
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Three of four played; all three stay:

  • I wasn’t expecting to like 20 Strong, but wanted to try it anyway as solo game with nice components, and it’s surprisingly engrossing
  • Valleria is a terrible solo experience, but was rather satisfying with two players
  • Four out of four players said they’d play Tomb Trader again and that it should stay

April’s Mini Challenge: Complete these games so they can go to the flea market or into the PnP components box, as appropriate.

2025-04 Mini Challenge Start
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Have an advantageous April of gaming everyone!

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March was rather successful! I played 3 unplayed games: Metal Gear Solid the Board Game, Legacy of Yu, and Courtisans!

So with the three in January, zero in February, and now three in March, I am meeting my goal of two unplayed games per month.

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Game Plays
Imperium: Horizons 11 (+5)
Rallyman: GT 9 (+4)
Sea Salt & Paper 9 (+2)
Crokinole 4 (+4)
PUSH 4 (+2)
Steampunk Rally Fusion: Atomic Edition 4 (+1)
Compile: Main 1 3 (+3)
Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition 3 (+1)

and quite a lot at 2. I’d be very happy if these did end up being in my 10×10, and some of them very probably will be.

No progress on the unplayed games though.

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Phew! That was a dang good month of gaming, if I do say so myself. Assisted in no small way by me going to Adepticon in Milwaukee… that was an experience.

But I did manage to get 7 players for a game of TI4 with PoK and I did exceptionally badly. Partially my starting position was awful, but even aside from that I was just never able to figure out a win-condition for the Winnu… I didn’t have enough resources to build a fleet big enough to take Mecatol, which is kind of their “thing,” and I didn’t have nearly enough political clout or action economy to do much of anything. I still love the game, though, and with the [redacted] coming out in a few months, I want to get at least a few more plays of it in!

Battletech continues to be a joy. What a stupid, amazing miniatures game. It’s kinda nice to play something that I’m not really concerned about winning? Because Battletech isn’t about winning. It’s about mechs blowing up, whether mine or yours. As long as big stompy robots are exploding, I’m having fun!

Our co-op group has successfully transitioned to playing Descent, which I am ecstatic about, because I love that game. We’ve only played the first two scenarios so far, but everyone had fun, and the terrain and the models are just absolutely top-tier. Really looking forward to finishing the first campaign so we can start the second. Apparently there was an expansion announced but never released… gah, should’ve bugged some of the people at the Asmodee both about that… ah well.

Other than that, nothing much. I’m hoping to get a few War for Arrakis games in with my buddy soon (we’re trying to finish up our Undaunted 2200 campaign first), and then buckets of Battletech now that I have a job that, hopefully, I can leave at work and won’t exhaust me constantly. We will see!

I’ve almost completely stopped picking up new games. I have a copy of Courtesans that finally arrived for me that I’ll nab today or tomorrow, but I think that’s it for the near future… my copy of Earthborn Rangers is theoretically arriving before the summer, but I’ll be pleasantly surprised if it shows up before August.

Have a great month of gaming, everyone!

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Game Plays
Rallyman: GT 13 (+4)
Imperium: Horizons 11
Sea Salt & Paper 10 (+1)
PUSH 5 (+1)
Compile: Main 1 4 (+1)
Crokinole 4
Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition 4 (+1)
Steampunk Rally Fusion: Atomic Edition 4
Rallyman 3 (+1)
Tobago 3 (+1)

I did not expect this to be a sudden Tobago year but I’m certainly not going to complain.

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Good month for gaming, although not a tonne from ye olde list.

Descent and Battletech are both chugging along nicely, and I have another game of TI4 scheduled for this month, so that’s great! Got the newest Heat expansion, so excited to put it on the table, and Thunder Road continues to be a joy.

Also played a great game of Star Trek Ascendancy, and also managed to get great games of Blackstone Fortress and Cursed City in… it has been almost 6 years since I played BSF, and it’s legit great. Not sure how much replay I will get out of it, but for now, fantasic. Cursed City is… almost as good. Almost.

I have been averaging 3-4 game nights a week… not positive I will keep up that pace, but man, it is nice.

A couple new acquisitions, but since money is tight (and likely to get tighter) I have been reducing the amount of stuff I buy.

The Heat expansion and Zoo Vadis were the last on my list of purchases from the old job. Excited for both!

Hope everyone has an amazing month of gaming!

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Good progress this month! Only L, U, Q, and V to go on the alphabet challenge.

Play my unplayed games
  • Agropolis
  • Akropolis
  • The British Way
  • Caverna: Cave Vs Cave
  • Factory Funner
  • Glass Garden
  • Gloomhaven: Buttons and Bugs
  • Hipparchus
  • In a Grove
  • Kabuto Sumo
  • Lock
  • Loot
  • Molly House
  • Pendulum
  • Ptolemy
  • Santorini
  • Twins
  • Undaunted 2200
  • Vegetable Stock
  • Wingspan: Asia
  • Wonder Bowling
  • Zoo Vadis
Alphabet challenge

A: Azul
B: Brass Brum
C: Concordia
D: Deep Sea Adventure
E: Ecosystem
F: Flip 7
G: Ginkgopolis
H: Hiroba
I: It’s a Wonderful World
J: John Company 2E
K: Kabuto Sumo
L:
M: Mino Dice
N: No Thanks!
O: Oranges and Lemons
P: Piña Coladice
Q:
R: R.O.V.E.
S: Sea Salt and Paper
T: Turncoats
U:
V:
W: Wonder Bowling
X: Xylotar
Y: Yokai Septet
Z: Zoo Vadis

20 x 5
  • R.O.V.E. 5/5
  • Heat 5/5
  • Hive 5/5
  • Turncoats 5/5
  • Piña Coladice 3/5
  • Akropolis 3/5
  • Kabuto Sumo 3/5
  • Forks 2/5
  • NUMBR 9 2/5
  • No Thanks! 2/5
  • Oranges and Lemons 2/5
  • Oriflamme 2/5
  • Strike 2/5
  • Switchbacks 2/5
  • Zoo Vadis 2/5
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My 100 plays challenge (16/100) I’m lagging behind! But that’s fine

Play my entire collection [29/65 - 45%]
  • Aegean Sea
  • Age of Innovation
  • Age of Steam
  • Big Shot
  • Bohnanza
  • Bridges of Shangri-La
  • Bus
  • Chicago Express
  • Cosmic Encounter
  • Courtisans
  • Cthulhu Wars
  • Dicke Damonen
  • Dominion
  • Dutch InterCity
  • Escape: Curse of the Temple
  • Food Chain Magnate
  • For Sale
  • Fresh Fish
  • Glorantha
  • Gloria Picktoria
  • Glory to Rome
  • Goodcritters
  • The Great Zimbabwe
  • Guards of Atlantis
  • Hellapagos
  • Imperial/Imperial 2030
  • Impulse
  • Indonesia
  • Innovation
  • Intrigue
  • Irish Gauge
  • The King is Dead
  • Kingdom Builder
  • MarraCash
  • Mindbug
  • Mottainai
  • Nokosu Dice
  • Panda Spin
  • Paris Connection
  • Pax Pamir 1e
  • Pax Pamir 2e
  • Pax Porfiriana
  • Pax Renaissance
  • Pax Transhumanity
  • PitchCar
  • Ponzi Scheme
  • Prussian Rails
  • Push It
  • Ride the Rails
  • Rise and Fall
  • Seasons
  • Skyrise
  • South African Railroads
  • Stephenson’s Rocket
  • Tichu
  • Tikal
  • Turn the Tide
  • Xylotar
  • You’re Bluffing
  • Zoo Vadis
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Nothing new played in April. :frowning:

Been a very rough month, didn’t have much socializing beyond one friend’s birthday, and my wife is still struggling with post concussion syndrome, so we just stick with familiar games. Haven’t had much time to solo things either.

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April Results

10 X 10 Challenge

Game Month Total Status
Anachrony Essential Edition 1 [1/10]
Bullet :blue_heart: 3 [8/10]
Gaia Project - [4/10]
Meadow - [5/10]
Smartphone Inc. 2 [2/10]
Total 6 20

Not a bad month, with my copies of Smartphone Inc. and Anachrony played for the first time.

Keyforge 10x10

Set Deck Month Total Win %:one: Status
Dark Tidings Bailiff Susannah Murklurker 1 [16/10] 13% :white_check_mark:
Grim Reminders Nextikaod, the Footman of The South - [1/10] 43%
Vault Masters 2024 The Automatic Apothecary of Disk’s Vault 3 [13/10] 43% :white_check_mark:
Tokens of Change Oscar “Jurassic Classic” Qvinpain 3 [18/10] 33% :white_check_mark:
Progress 31%

Consolidation rather than progress this month.

Monthly Mini Challenge
April: Complete these games so they can go to the flea market or the PnP components box as appropriate.

2025-04 Mini Challenge
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Not completed, but progress of a sort with LotR… got sick of repeating Chapter 3 over and over and over so added an easy mode which allowed victory (added a couple of extra special cards to the deck). Hopefully can finish the remaining chapters with the normal rules before the flea market; I’m over it after ten million attempts at the aforementioned chapter.

May Mini Challenge: Play the five games from my 2024 10x10 challenge that got five or more plays. Stretch goal to add the three games that got a couple of plays each.

Have an mirthful May of gaming everyone!

:one: Includes pre-challenge plays for some decks

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Game Plays
Rallyman: GT 19 (+6)
Flip 7 14 (+13)
Imperium: Horizons 11
Sea Salt & Paper 11 (+1)
Crokinole 10 (+6)
Steampunk Rally Fusion: Atomic Edition 6 (+2)
Compile: Main 1 5 (+1)
PUSH 5
Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition 5 (+1)
Rallyman 4 (+1)
War of the Nine Realms 4 (+4)
ito 4 (+4)

Yeah I may have got into realtime Flip 7 on BGA when I have ten minutes to spare.

Doubt I will play ito again unless someone else really wants to.

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Play my collection: 36/59 - 61%
  • Aegean Sea
  • Age of Innovation
  • Age of Steam
  • Big Shot
  • Bohnanza
  • Bridges of Shangri-La
  • Bus
  • Chicago Express
  • Cosmic Encounter
  • Courtisans
  • Cthulhu Wars
  • Dicke Damonen
  • Dominion
  • Dutch InterCity
  • Escape: Curse of the Temple
  • Food Chain Magnate
  • For Sale
  • Fresh Fish
  • Glorantha
  • Gloria Picktoria
  • Glory to Rome
  • Goodcritters
  • The Great Zimbabwe
  • Guards of Atlantis
  • Hellapagos
  • Impulse
  • Indonesia
  • Innovation
  • Intrigue
  • Irish Gauge
  • The King is Dead
  • Kingdom Builder
  • MarraCash
  • Mindbug
  • Mottainai
  • Nokosu Dice
  • Panda Spin
  • Paris Connection
  • Pax Pamir 1e
  • Pax Pamir 2e
  • Pax Porfiriana
  • Pax Renaissance
  • Pax Transhumanity
  • PitchCar
  • Ponzi Scheme
  • Prussian Rails
  • Push It
  • Ride the Rails
  • Rise and Fall
  • Seasons
  • Skyrise
  • South African Railroads
  • Stephenson’s Rocket
  • Tichu
  • Tikal
  • Turn the Tide
  • Xylotar
  • You’re Bluffing
  • Zoo Vadis
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Nothing new played again this month. I just console myself that I am also not acquiring games at the rate I used to.

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A very good month for gaming, and wven a few off the list! Descent continues to be my favourite dungeon-delver, despite the realization that each mission is fixed aside from how/when/where/which baddies show up and what treasure you find. That’s a little disappointing, but the game is so good I don’t really care. Also, we have found a few ways to add more dice to your rolls! Big fan of that. Rolling one die is just kinda sad.

The TI4 game was great but with a disapppinting end game, and I continue to be bewildered by the popularity of Arcs. It’s kinda fine, I guess? It feels very… random in unpleasant and frustrating ways. Like, after 6 plays I should have some sense of strategy, but no.

Played 3 games of SW Legion, which is 2 more than I played in 2023 and 2024 combined (I exaggerate, but it is nice to be playing it again) although that came at the cost of playing Battletech. Ah well. I will play more of that this month.

Played another gsme of Ascendancy, finished our campaign of Cursed City (cementing it as much worse than Blackstone Fortress, which is very solid without needing house rules), and played two games of Vindication, confirming that it is very much not for me.

Managed to get Zoo Vadis on the table a few times with 3 and 4 players, and… disapppinted thus far. I will reserve judgment until we play with 6, but so far it’s just been okay. Maybe the wrong group to play it with? Dunno. We will see.

Did manage to play a bunch of The Gang, and that game slaps.

No other new games this month. I am selling off 20 games in anticipation of moving my game shelves (and maybe replacing them with cheaper, better Kallax), but since I stopped working at the gsme store I am just not picking up as much new stuff. I have a copy of Earthborn Rangers that should arrive by early autumn, I hope, but that’s kinda it… oh, and the Inis expansion, maybe.

Have a great June of gaming, everyone!

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May Results

10 X 10 Challenge

Game Month Total Status
Anachrony Essential Edition - [1/10]
Bullet :blue_heart: 3 [11/10] :white_check_mark:
Gaia Project - [4/10]
Meadow - [5/10]
Red Rising 2 [2/10]
Smartphone Inc. - [2/10]
Total 5 24

Bullet :blue_heart: complete. Cracked open Red Rising and loving it so far.

Keyforge 10x10

Set Deck Month Total Win %:one: Status
Dark Tidings Bailiff Susannah Murklurker - [16/10] 13% :white_check_mark:
Grim Reminders Nextikaod, the Footman of The South 10 [11/10] 53% :white_check_mark:
Vault Masters 2024 The Automatic Apothecary of Disk’s Vault - [13/10] 43% :white_check_mark:
Tokens of Change Oscar “Jurassic Classic” Qvinpain - [18/10] 33% :white_check_mark:
Progress 40%

Slowly getting the hang of Nextikaod, but yet to quite work out why it’s the deck with the highest SAS rating in my collection. More practice required!

Monthly Mini Challenge
May: Play the five games from my 2024 10x10 challenge that got five or more plays.

2025-05 Mini Challenge
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Fairly successful, only Black Angel missed out.

June Mini Challenge:
For the sixth month of the year, play six games from the shelf of opportunity.

Have a jubilant June of gaming everyone!

:one: Includes pre-challenge plays for some decks

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That’s a neat graphic.

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Hooray, complete!

Session Game Date
Cellulose Cellulose January 2
Silent Victory Silent Victory March 13
Spirit Island Spirit Island March 17
Ashes Reborn Ashes Reborn March 18
Crokinole Crokinole March 27
Crokinole Crokinole March 28
Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries March 28
Endless Winter: Paleoamericans Endless Winter: Paleoamericans May 24
High Frontier 4 All High Frontier 4 All May 25
Monopoly: Disney Lilo & Stitch Monopoly: Disney Lilo & Stitch June 1
High Frontier 4 All High Frontier 4 All May 31
Merchants Cove Merchants Cove June 16
Game Played?
BattleCON :cross_mark:
Millennium Blades :cross_mark:
Cellulose :white_check_mark:
Ashes: Reborn – Red Rains :white_check_mark:
Commands & Colors – Medieval :cross_mark:
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