Topic of the Week: Editions, Reprints, and Reskins

Games I have multiple different variants of:

  • Carcassonne; Travel…; …Hunters and Gatherers; …The City; Mists Over…
    • Keeping it all.
  • Pandemic (plus expansion); …Fall of Rome; …Rising Tide
    • I think I’m probably ditching Fall of Rome; and I still haven’t played Rising Tide!
  • The Lost Expedition (plus expansion); Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth
    • Keeping both. They’re gorgeous productions in small boxes, and they differ in significant ways, and I enjoy them both.
  • Ecosystem; …Coral Reef
    • Still need to compare (CR is a new acquisition), but at the moment I assume I’ll end up ditching one of the two.
  • Wildlands (plus expansions); Judge Dredd: Helter Skelter (plus expansion)
    • Keeping it all for now. Helter Skelter wins on the solo-gaming front, but pretty much all the content for either game can be treated as expansion content for the other, so I ended up completing the set.
  • Codenames; …Pictures; …Duet
    • Keeping it all – they all do their own thing.
  • Gloom; Cthulhu Gloom
    • Not sure if I have a group for CG any more, but the boxes are tiny, so I’ve kept it “just in case”.
  • Hive (plus expansions); …Pocket (plus expansion)
    • With all expansions, this is literally the same game with different sized tiles. I started with the cheaper pocket version (which is travel-friendly and includes two expansions), and eventually realised that I was totally happy to pay extra money to be able to play it with bigger tiles when not carrying it around.
  • The King is Dead; …Second Edition
    • I bought the former after the latter because I realised I really wanted that version. 2nd Ed. lives at the office, so I still own them both.
  • Mysterium (plus expansions); …Park
    • Still haven’t played the small box, but simply can’t see myself getting rid of the big one.
  • Light Speed; Stellar Conflict
    • Keeping both – it all fits inside the S.C. box, and they’re significantly different.
  • Resist!; WItchcraft!
    • I rate Resist highly but somehow still haven’t played Witchcraft, so I don’t know yet whether I’ll end up keeping them both.
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