I’m in Cardiff. We could meet halfway? Swindon seems apt for a train game
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Stay 2 m apart using litter pickers
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Arrived during pandemic
- Summoner Wars - I was late to the party on this one… I have a couple of candidates that I think will enjoy “card-based chess with super powers”
- BattleCON - Picked up a couple of BattleCON products at deep discounts but it, like Summoner Wars above, are not my partner’s cup of tea (or even her style of game!). I’m looking to the same audience for this as well
- Aeon’s End - A recent thread here brought this back into my attention and I picked it up. I do think my partner will enjoy a co-op deckbuilder, so I’m going to try to get it played solo soon to learn it before getting her involved.
- Roads & Boats - my first copy of R&B arrived just before isolation began. I think it’ll be a great game night game with my neighbor who loves logistics puzzles
18xx
- 1862, 18CZ, 1830, 1844, 1854, 18Chesapeake - I have no excuse for buying more when all of these are unplayed. The only 18xx I’ve actually played was an online game of 1889.
I’m afraid of the The Teach™
- Root - I think my partner would actually like this one… but I think her eyes will glaze over when I start explaining the rules
- Arkwright - Why did I think this was a game I needed? My goodness is it opaque (and I thought it would be easier to grok than 18xx)
Complete list of games in my collection that I haven't played
- 1830: Railways & Robber Barons
- 1844/1854
- 1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties
- 18Chesapeake
- 18CZ
- 18Lilliput
- 20th Century Limited
- 8Bit Box
- Aeon’s End
- Age of Steam: Deluxe Edition
- Antike
- Arcane Alley
- Arctic Scavengers: Base Game+HQ+Recon
- Arkwright
- At the Gates of Loyang
- Australian Rails
- Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra
- Bargain Quest
- Battle Line
- BattleCON
- BattleLore (Second Edition)
- Biblios
- Blue Lagoon
- Böhmische Dörfer
- Brass: Birmingham
- The Bridges of Shangri-La
- British Rails
- Burgle Bros.
- BUS
- But Wait, There’s More!
- Carpe Diem
- Castles of Mad King Ludwig
- Catacombs (Third Edition)
- Caverna: The Cave Farmers
- Caylus 1303
- Century: A New World
- Century: Eastern Wonders
- Chai
- Chicago Express
- China
- China Rails
- Citadels
- City of the Big Shoulders
- Claim
- Claim 2
- Coal Baron: The Great Card Game
- Coldwater Crown
- Concordia Venus
- Condottiere
- Container: 10th Anniversary Jumbo Edition!
- Counterfeiters
- Crypt
-
Cryptid(played a friend’s copy previously) - Cutthroat Caverns: Anniversary Edition
- Dale of Merchants
- Decrypto
- Downforce
- Dragonwood
- Durch die Wüste
- Eldritch Horror
- Empire Builder
- Empire Express
- Empires
- En Garde
- Exit: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin
- Factory Funner
- Falling Sky: The Gallic Revolt Against Caesar
- Fantastic Factories
- Firefly Adventures: Brigands and Browncoats
- Firefly: Shiny Dice
-
First Orchard(my daughter’s… we’ve played it’s just not logged) - Fleet
- Flick 'em Up!
- Fog of Love
- Food Chain Magnate
- Football Highlights 2052
- For Sale
- Founders of Gloomhaven
- Fresco
- Freshwater Fly
- Fzzzt!
- Galaxy Trucker
- Gaslands: Post-Apocalyptic Vehicular Combat / Refueled
- Getaway Driver
- Glass Road
- The Gnomes of Zavandor
- Going, Going, GONE!
- El Grande Big Box
- Greed
- Grog Island
- GUBS: A Game of Wit and Luck
- Guildhall Fantasy
- Hanamikoji
- Harbour
- Hardback
- Harvest Dice
- Le Havre
- Herbalism
- Hero Realms
- High Society
- Hive
- HMS Dolores
-
ICECOOL2(played ICECOOL) - Imhotep
- Imperial
- In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary
- Incan Gold
- India Rails
- Indian Summer
- Indigo
- Inis
- IOTA
- Irish Gauge
- Jórvík
- Click Clack Lumberjack
- Kansas Pacific
- Kaosball: The Fantasy Sport of Total Domination
- Khet 2.0
-
King of Tokyo(played a friend’s copy previously) - KLASK
- Ladies & Gentlemen
- The Lady and the Tiger
- Lancaster
- Legendary: Big Trouble in Little China
- Legends of Andor
- London (Second Edition)
- Lords of Vegas
- Lost Cities
- Lowlands
- Lunar Rails
- Mafia de Cuba
- Maiden’s Quest (a gift I haven’t actually given to my partner yet)
- Mascarade
- Matryoshka
- MBL Pocket Pro Tour (came bundled with Millennium Blades…)
- Mechanica
- Memoir '44
- Mercado
- The Mines of Zavandor
- Mottainai
- My Village
- Mystery of the Temples
- Nemo’s War (Second Edition) (intended for solo play)
- New York Slice
- Nur die Ziege zählt
- Oceans
- Oh My Goods!
- Pandemic: Fall of Rome
-
Pandemic: The Cure(played a friend’s copy previously) - Parfum
- Paris Connection
- Penny Press
- The Pillars of the Earth
- Pipeline
- Police Precinct
- Port Royal
- Poseidon
- The Prodigals Club
- Purrrlock Holmes: Furriarty’s Trail
- The Quacks of Quedlinburg
- Quartermaster General
- Queen’s Architect
- Queendomino XL
- The Quest for El Dorado
- Rail Pass
-
Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Edition(played with SUSD stream) - Rails Through the Rockies
- Railways of Nippon
- Rajas of the Ganges
-
Rallyman: GT(played play-by-post and BGA) - Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot
- Reavers of Midgard
- Red November
- Res Arcana
- The Resistance: Avalon
- Roads & Boats: 20th Anniversary Edition
- ROBiTs
- Robot Turtles
- Rook
- Root
-
Rory’s Story Cubes(not really a game) - RUM
- Russian Rails
- Sabotage
- Samurai Spirit
- Santorini
- Seasons
- Sekigahara: The Unification of Japan
- Set a Watch
- Shards of Infinity
- Sheep & Thief
- Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Carlton House & Queen’s Park
- Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures
- Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases
- SHH
- Silverton
- Skyward
- Slide Quest
-
Small World(played Small World 2) - Snowdonia: Deluxe Master Set (played solo)
- Sonar
- SOW
- Space Alert
- Spell Smashers
- Spike
- Spring Meadow
- SPY
- Spyfall
- Spyfall 2
- Star Trek: Five-Year Mission
- Stephenson’s Rocket
- Stockpile: Epic Edition
- Stuffed Fables
- Summoner Wars
- Tales & Games: The Hare & the Tortoise
- Targi
- Ticket to Ride: Märklin
- Tigris & Euphrates
- Timeline: Historical Events
- Tobago
- Tokaido (played app…)
- Trains
- Trans Europa
- Tussie Mussie
- Tzolk’in: The Mayan Calendar
- U.S. Telegraph
- Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One
- Untold: Adventures Await
- Valeria: Card Kingdoms
- Valley of the Kings: Premium Edition
- Vault Wars
- Vikings Gone Wild
- VivaJava: The Coffee Game
-
VOLT: Robot Battle Arena(played online) - The Voyages of Marco Polo
- Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire
- Watson & Holmes
- Welcome to the Dungeon
- Welcome To…
- What’s He Building in There?
- Whitehall Mystery
- Yardmaster Express
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That makes sense. My wife’s not really into most 2p games, so I feel you there.
Sure, that’d be fun. Let’s just see how long Covid makes that unfeasible for 
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I’d really love to play some Ashes. But my problems getting it to the table didn’t start with the pandemic; I just tend not to play a lot of two-player games (at the usual boardgame group meetings where we might have 5-7 people it feels antisocial) and while you can play it with more it doesn’t really add anything.
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So many people have Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective in their top 10, I’m going to have to get it.
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I was in the same boat.
I did get to play 2-player kinda regularly, but only with my friend who’s dyslexic, so a text-heavy game like Ashes isn’t ideal.
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I forgot about Nippon. Got it in the maths trade. Quite interested to try this one. Maybe not as excited as 18xx, but that’s true of most games now 
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I grabbed all 3 boxes in various sales, but haven’t played any of them yet, as if they do turn out to be something my partner likes, I wanna make sure I’ve got plenty of cases to work through.
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One thing that arrived as we went into lockdown was Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy. Really looking forward to getting it to table at some stage in the future.
I’d played the original at a convention a few years ago and really enjoyed it, so did a late pledge for the KS reprint which saw quite a few delays. So it is currently sitting on the shelf waiting for eventual game group time.
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I was disappointed in the short list of unplayed games. Until I expanded the details, at which point I thought, “That’s the pillbox we all know and love!” 
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I’m just here to make everybody else look good.
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Got High Society, Tournament at Camelot, Startups and Inhuman Conditions all came during or prior to lockdown. I was about to try digging up some Arkham Horror: The Living Cardgame, as well. The latter is hard to locate (for a newcomer at least) online in my experience and I was about to go on a quest to various game stores in Seattle before all this.
There are a number of games I was particularly looking forward to playing with specific people–some I’ve played before with different groups, some I haven’t played yet, and some I’ve played before with the same groups they were just in my Next To Play list anyway:
- Root --Really wanted to introduce my sister and brother to this.
- Vast: The Mysterious Manor – Loved Crystal Caverns immensely. Wanted to give this a go.
- Marvel Champions – I like it, but I’m not wowed by it, so I wanted to play it with some people I think will would really love it and maybe just leave it with them.
- Flamme Rogue – Wanted to introduce the whole family to this one.
- Catacombs – This went over really well with one group so I’m eager to play more of it.
- Keyforged – I was very pleasantly surprised by how much I like this game. I have a couple of decks I’ve played and two I haven’t cracked open yet and I’ve been sharing it with as many people as I can.
- Quacks of Quedlinberg – This is the next game in my unplayed pile that I really wanted to get to.
There are quite a few games I’m always down to play or always actively seeking to play, too, but that’s really just a list of my Favorite Games (right now) so it’s kinda a different thing.
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Ah, a Shelf of Shame thread.
So, post pandemic, I am not doing all that bad with my new acquisitions.
Games purchased since lockdown
Unmatched Vol.1
Horrified
Villainous: Evil Comes Prepared
Mysterium: Hidden Signs
Everdell
Orleans
Chinatown
Games played
Unmatched
Horrified
Everdell (solo)
Considering how crazy everything is with our kids all cooped up, who make it very difficult to play games while they are awake, I am calling this a win.
If we look at the rest of my collection, well…
Unplayed (going by memory)
Hokkaido
Shadows Over Camelot: the card game
Escapse from the Aliens in Outer Space
Saboteur
Deep Sea Adventure
Citadels
Star Wars: Empire vs Rebellion
They Who Were 8
Catacombs and Castles
Condottiere
Evolution: the Beginning
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper and West End Adventures
Dragoon
Decrypto
Codenames: Marvel
Crosstalk
Ghost Stories: White Moon expansion
Battle Line
Mesozooic
Lowlands
Pandemic: Rising Tide
Pandemic: In the Lab expansion
Looney Quest
Shadows: Amsterdam
Survive Space Attack!
Masque of the Red Death
Exit: the Secret Lab
Sonar
World Monuments
Mr. Jack
7 Wonders: Armada expansion
Five Tribes
Then there is my pile of games I have owned for a while with just a play or two that really deserve more love.
List
El Grande
Inis
Galaxy Trucker
Twilight Imperium 4th ed
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
Fury of Dracula 3rd ed
Batman: Gotham City Chronicles
Magic Maze
The Big Book of Madness
The Castles of Mad King Ludwig
Dungeon Petz
The Fox in the Forest
Honorable mentions to Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures game, which I have played a few times, but have purchased enough that it deserves more plays, and Fortress America, which I played somewhat frequently in high school, found a used copy late last year, and have not yet played it.
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Such a shame I am not living in Chippenham any more… bang in the middle, and we could have played in my house…
I still haven’t been able to break out Napoleon’s Triumph for a full game in all its 44" x 34" glory since the designer gave me* a copy last year.
Still, I have been able to play it a few times, and I definitely wouldn’t have been motivated to make a Vassal module to do so if I didn’t own a physical copy, but still… I want to push blocks around and pretend like I’m Napoleon in real-time.
(* gave multiple copies to a guy in California who sent them around the world for just the exorbitant cost of USPS postage)
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We’re not stopping you! Please have your partner take pictures.
But… I suppose it wouldn’t be as fun if you weren’t playing the game.
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I was mainly thinking of the unplayed FCM+ketchup sitting sadly on my shelf, but you raise an excellent point 
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Oh yeah! I bought High Society and haven’t been able to play it yet.
It’s sitting next to the original Lost Cities which is also high on my list once other players become possible.
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