Show off your boxes (photos of your collection)

You. Have. No. Idea.

In my particular work function, “end of the month” is particularly interesting. And by “interesting” I mean “infuriating”. So it’s an odd balance of “get everything done before the end of the month so we can close the books on these projects” and “something is going to go horribly wrong with everyone scrambling to finish everything all at once, so if it’s not important, don’t touch it” and then “something went horribly wrong because everyone was scrambling, drop what you’re doing and come help us fix this right now!”

Oh, and the “I’ve been told that my project isn’t going to close this month, and I’m not allowed to steal focus from the projects that will, but I’m going to sneak in this conference call so that we can get a jump start on my project first thing next week”

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I sometimes walk in on my partner watching SpaceX launches, while playing on his mobile phone and listening to telcos…

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Nein.

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I just want to know how Flügelschlag relates to Funkenschlag :thinking:

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Sounds lovely to me…

Amazing collection, you have so many games that I would love to play. Kudos for the book-keeping and managing of your games. Very (healthy) jealous here.

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Flügel = Wing
Funke = Spark
Schlag = A Beat

Flügelschlag is an actual albeit rarely used word meaning “the movement of wings”
Funkenschlag probably

means an electrical discharge but is not really in the dictionary :slight_smile:

Up until 2 years ago or so my collection had just shy of 100 games. Last counting I am at nearly twice that. So there are lots and lots of new acquisitions and I have given away a lot of older games over time. As stated elsewhere the whole lockdown has not helped my shopping habits at all.

I track my collection with the help of BGG, my plays with BGStats and I also use https://geekgroup.app to have additional statistics for my games. I have recently started to track acquisition date and prices on BGG as well.

We are going to move into my parents home in a year or a bit more (depending on how renovation goes) where we’ll have more space for games and I am really looking forward to having a dedicated space and a big Kallax. I hate that the games are all over the place here. I want them in one space :slight_smile:

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Just did a tidy up, so I’ve reorganised the game shelves (pulled out a few I’m all right with getting rid of and added in the new ones):

Bonus: a simple illustration of why the Oriflamme box is ridiculous and I’ve had to shelve it upside-down:

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That’s two sets of shelves, right? Not a before and after?

Yes, two sets of shelves. The sliding doors on the wardrobe they’re in means you can only access one at a time, so you can’t take a pic of everything at once :laughing:

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I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to work out which games you’d kept between the pictures! Time for coffee, I think.

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My wife moved the small boxes to the drawers in our dining table

I thought I’d posted on here before but I don’t think I have. Scrolling through I did mistake a few collections for ours!!

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The game with the white candles is fantastic!

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Quite partial to Spanner-Screwdriver myself

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A connoisseur! Didn’t want to brag that I owned it

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Well, yeah, but it’s the new edition - the original wooden pieces were just so much more satisfying.

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Here we go, organized in the classic HRCuLes format not actually devised or used by anyone. Naturally I’m referring to the Hobbies/Rectangles/Cubes/Leviathans structure illustrated below:

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Not my whole collection, just the stack of games I’m currently keeping close to the table for when I fancy a quick solo game (though Sub Terra easily lasts an hour)

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My temporary Uwe shelf. Might change it to a 2x1 Kallax as an Uwe + 2 player shelf.

Glass Road and Le Havre are missing as I sold them to get the latest edition

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Whoa. Bearing in mind I’ve only seen some huge collected edition of Sub-Terra, I’m starting to see what you mean about your Calico, I think. Is that a full, “Ticket to Ride” sized box (think that one’s standard globally)?.

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