Eight months into this year’s challenge - a different board game played every weekend - and all still going well despite a busier workload as usual in the summer.
2026 Q1 Games
Jan 2nd - 4th: Brass: Birmingham
Jan 9th - 11th: 7 Wonders Duel
Jan 16th - 18th: Glass Road
Jan 23rd - 25th: Railroad Ink
Jan 30th - Feb 1st: Horrified
Feb 6th - 8th: Hispania
Feb 13th - 15th: Eleven: Football Manager Board Game
I plan on playing Quest for El Dorado, Xia, for Y I have 3 games actually (Yamatai, Yinsh, Yokai Septet) and probably Zombie Dice or maybe maybe I will get out Zombicide after oh so many years of not playing. Zoo Vadis is probably not going to hit the table.
Women's Day Challenge 21/42
Women’s Day Challenge
2026-01-01 – 2026-12-31
From BGG on Womans Day
21 / 42 entries complete
Play a game made by women only (at least the main designer and one artist must be women ) (Wingspan Asia) — 1/1
Play a game that has a woman as a designer (Point City) — 1/1
Play a game that has a woman as an artist or graphic designer (Harmonies) — 44/1
Play a game that has a woman on the publisher team (or self-publisher) (Cascadia: Alpine Lakes) — 31/1
Play a game that has a woman on the box (Daydream) — 8/1
Agricola — 0/1 (only if the crowdfunding campaign delivers on time)
Earth (BGA) — 0/1
Harmonies — 0/1
Flourish — 0/1
edit: I totally forgot my main challenge: I am on day 250 of playing a solo every day since Christmas last year! I will make it to Christmas this year! It’s mostly Cascadia Alpine Lakes, Small Fjords, *-opolis.
Well, August has come and gone, and not many games played, tragically. Our Earthborne Rangers campaign is continuing along nicely I suppose, and Nick and I managed to play another round of the Battletech Aces: Scouring Sands campaign, and it’s a tonne of fun! So I guess fewer games, but really enjoyable ones.
Oh, and one game of War for Arrakis! What a banger! Such a good game!
We also played a fair number of games not on my list (Race for the Galaxy, Innovation, Cascadia: Alpine Lakes, Dnup, and Things in Rings off the top of my head) as my partner and I have adjusted to life without a cat around. It’s slow adjustments.
Oh, and our bathroom is being renovated, which means the house is a low-level warzone. Noisy and dusty all the time. ALL the time. Also an adjustment.
Managed to play a game of Green Team Wins, and it’s very good and light. Solid. Flip 7 With a Vengeance is fine, as good as the original but not better. I find Old King’s Crown hasn’t wowed me… I enjoyed the two playthroughs of it I’ve done, but there’s no burning desire to pull it out again (unlike, say, War for Arrakis or Dune Imperium, which I would drop everything right now to play again). It’s beautiful, but the theme is so thin that I don’t know if I care about the game itself? Maybe I just need to get it on the table where everyone understands how it ticks, see if it sparks something then.
First month with no progress of any kind. Just busy with other things, and spent more free time on video games as of late. But still on track for my goal of playing one of my unplayed games each month since I got two games played for a couple of the months, instead of just one.