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10x10s (400 Back) · Pick Up and Deliver

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  Welcome to you, pick up and deliver the podcast where I pick up my
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  audio recorder as I step out for a walk and delivering episode to you while
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  I stroll around. I'm Brendan Riley Well greeting's listeners. It's a lovely day
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  here in suburban Chicago, working from home, so I'm taking a break,
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  taking a walk to the library and back, and using that time chit chat
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  with you about board games. Well, for this the second episode the season,
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  I am doing a look back. For those of you knew the podcast,
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  to look back is an episode where I look at something I did four
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  hundred episodes ago or four years ago and reflect on a little bit. Sometimes
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  I go to listen to the episode. This time I did not, so
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  this episode is going to be number six hundred and two. So I looked
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  back at episode number two hundred two and I found that in that episode,
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  I was sharing my thoughts on my ten for ten for the year, which
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  actually a twenty by five. As you know, every year, I like
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  to set a playing goal for myself that involves picking out well, it's inspired
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  by the original idea of the ten for ten, which involves picking out ten
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  games that you want to play ten times in a year, and I've done
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  that a couple times, but then I also have decided I've also been trying
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  to figure out a way to do other kinds of challenges in a similar way.
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  My family has this wooden display that we keep in the living room that
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  sort of shows progress on those. So that's where we keep the Family ten
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  by ten Challenge, and so starting in twenty eighteen, I decided to start
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  keeping track of those using my top of the Stack geek list that I maintain
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  on board game Geek. So in episode two O two, I was talking
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  about our Family Challenge gameplay challenge for the year, which was going to be
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  a twenty by five. So instead of a ten by ten, during a
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  twenty by five, we picked twenty different games play each of them five times.
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  And it occurred to me, it might be fun if I look back
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  over all of the ten for tens that I've logged starting in twenty eighteen and
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  talk a little bit about what they were and how they went. Maybe you'll
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  find that fun too. If not, I thank you for joining me today
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  and I'll talk to you next week or next next time. Okay, So
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  to start, Oh, if you want to look at these in more detail.
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  The easiest way to find them is to go to the show notes on
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  board on rattleboxgames dot com or wherever you get your podcast. The show notes
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  should be coming through as data, and follow the link to my Top of
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  the Stack geek list. If you go to my twenty twenty four Top of
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  the Stack geek list, you'll find that I have a geek list for each
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  year starting in twenty eighteen, and I track the ten for ten monthly in
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  those geek lists. So that's where I got this data from. I just
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  went to the December report for each of these geek lists. All right,
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  let's get into it. Start to start with The first ten for ten that
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  I tracked was in twenty eighteen, and this was a personal one where I
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  was trying to track for myself ten games played ten times. So what I'm
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  gonna do is read for you the quick do a quick read of the list
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  of games, and then I'll talk about it. Eighteen, I was tracking
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  the games gloom Haven, which I completed. Oh okay, here's what I'm
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  gonna do. I'm gonna read which games I played and how many times I
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  ended up playing them by the end of the year, then my total result
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  for the year and what I thought of it. Okay, So in my
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  twenty eight ten for ten I had I played eighty one plays by the end
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  of the run, so nineteen away from the full hundred. Here's what I
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  got. I played gloom Haven, we played at twenty times. Only ten
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  of them count Arkham Horror, LCG seventeen plays, Tara Mystica fourteen plays,
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  Century Galum Edition twelve plays, Pandemically Legacy Season two ten plays. So I
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  got all of those. I got ten plays in then we had stuffed Fables,
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  we got eight plays Ex Libris, we got five, MATINAI, we
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  got five Role for the Galaxy eight and Via Nebula five. Now, I
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  think some of those I don't know if some of those were on the table
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  or online, or if they were all only on the table. Most of
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  the only one on that could have been online. I think we're Matainai en
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  roll for the Galaxy, and I don't even know if those were available YT
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  So I'm going to say most of these are on the table. Nonetheless,
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  eighty one plays, but in the end of December is pretty good. I
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  got a long way toward the complete shebang. So that's cool. Yeah.
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  I like a lot of those games. Some of them I don't have anymore.
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  I got rid of Teraramstica see Pandemic Legacy season two. Once you're done
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  with that, you're obviously done with it. I still have Ex Libris,
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  though I haven't played in a long time. Yeah, so great, great
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  first year. Eighty one out of one hundred is not bad. I did
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  play it more than one hundred if you count, if you let me count,
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  more than more than ten for the games that I played extra. But
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  you don't do that. That's cheating, all right. So having done that,
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  in twenty eighteen, I noticed that I was starting to play a lot
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  of games online, and so I decided to keep track of both online and
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  in person plays. But I did a double challenge. I did so in
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  twenty nineteen. I did a hardcore challenge and a normal challenge. The hardcore
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  challenge is where I pick ten games that I'm going to play ten times in
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  a year, and I'm not allowed to change those games. I do get
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  myself one freebie. I can decide at some point to swap out one game
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  for another game. That's so it's hardcore, not quite hardcore, and then
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  I did a normal challenge as well, like just looking at games I've played,
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  including digital plays, did I get another ten for ten? That way
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  at the start of my question. So in the hardcore challenge, I did
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  complete it. I remember doing this. My daughter and I particularly really chowed
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  down on one game on Kings of Aaron Steam. I think we played it
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  six times in December so that we could complete the ten for ten. So
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  I have Betrayal Legacy London second Edition, Cerebria, Legacy of Dragon, Holt,
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  Sherlock, Holm's Consulting Detective Segrata, Gizmo's Kings of Aaron, Steam,
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  Rainbow Knights, and Welcome To. I've played every one of those at least
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  ten times. I think the most plays was Welcome To with fifteen plays,
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  And originally I started with the game Rampage in there we got two plays of
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  it in but I decided at some point I decided to swap that out four
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  Welcome To. So that was my hardcore challenge. Then my normal challenge,
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  I also got ten plays. Now this included online plays for these. This
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  would be through the Ages Quicks, Wingspan Code Names, Duet, or the
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  Harry Potter Code names. They are the same games I econom as one thing,
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  eminent domain owner, Rim Cryptid Terriforming you Ours, Ray Colt, Chronicles
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  of Crime, Concordia, Heist, and not alone. That actually might be
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  more than ten games one, two, three, four, six, seven,
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  eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. So I
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  actually had thirteen additional games that I played at least ten times if you count
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  online plays. Side my hardcore challenge and my normal challenge. Succeeded at them
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  both. Twenty nineteen is perhaps my most successful year as a ten for ten
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  enthusiast. In twenty twenty, I started more actively using the ten for ten
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  for both myself and my family. I let my family members choose games that
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  we were going to put on the list. I think I did that in
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  twenty nineteen as well. Maybe not. Maybe in twenty nineteen, I asked
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  them if they had games they wanted to play, but I think I was
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  picking. In twenty twenty, actually gave each family member a couple of games
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  for the list. And here's how we did. In twenty twenty. As
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  I said, this was an episode two hundred and we decided to do a
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  twenty by five instead of a ten by ten. And here are the twenty
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  games as well as how many times we played each one, and I only
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  counted up until we succeeded, So we might have played some of these more
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  than that, but I stopped really recording. Like for the example, the
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  first one was Everdell. We played that five times. We might have played
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  more than five times, but that's not recorded here. So Everdell five times,
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  Buffy the Vampire Slayer, four Miskatonic School for Girls, two ex Libris
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  three role for the Galaxy, A big goose egg, It's a Wonderful World
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  two or Leons two Lovelace, Lovelace and Babbage. One rattle battle Grabbed the
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  Loote two the Adventurers either the Temple of Horace or the Temple of Chalk or
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  the Pyramid of Horus. Two plays Stuffed Fables zero the final flick Teer zero
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  brass either one. Five plays Nanti Narking, three plays Polstar twenty eight to
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  forty nine, Big Goose Egg, trick, carry On, four plays oh
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  My Goods, four plays Elsium, two plays Shakespeare, three plays the Bloody
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  in one play. So a dramatic failure there forty five percent, not even
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  half of my plays that I was trying to go for. That was a
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  good year, lots of fun games in there, but in terms of achieving
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  the twenty by twenty not really. I'm not sure why exactly. We had
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  a lot of time to play games twenty twenty. It was of course COVID
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  year, so we were home a lot. We did play a lot of
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  games at home, but maybe not these games anyhow. So that was fun,
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  but I decided not to do a twenty by five again. It was
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  too much, too much effort, or too much too complicated, I guess.
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  Maybe on twenty twenty one, I went back to the ten by ten,
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  but it was a family challenge, so I think I gave each of
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  my family members one game they could pick, and then I picked the other
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  six. And it was again not a great year, in fact, maybe
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  the worst result of the ten for ten process. So we did Cafe Chaos,
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  gloomh Haven, Jaws of the Lion Adventure games. So this is the
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  line of games from Cosmos that looks sort of like Exit games, but they're
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  a little different. Seven Wonders, Obsession, Victoriana, an Acrony Pandemic Legacy,
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  Season zero, Underfalling Skies, and Cartographers. My best results there were
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  seven Wonders with seven plays, Obsession with seven plays, Pandemic Legacy season zero
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  was seven plays, and Cartographers was seven plays. All the others got less
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  than that, for a total of thirty two percent complete. Though I did
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  play every game at least once, so that was a nice uptick from last
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  the previous year where I had a few goose eggs. That was a fun
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  one, but I did learn that I need to be more deliberate in trying
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  to get games played. But also maybe that just the breadth of games I
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  like to play makes doing a ten for ten really hard, which part of
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  the point of a ten for ten is to pick some games you really want
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  to focus on. But I don't have the consistent gaming group that has that
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  appetite. Like if I had a game group that I got together with once
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  a week or twice a month, where it's the same people and we're all
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  into the same games, and we could kind of agree, Okay, we're
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  going to play these games a lot. I could do it, maybe,
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  but often when I get time to play games at home, it's a variety.
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  So you can see the games where I had a lot of Opportunity,
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  Obsession, Pandemic, Legacy, Cartographers. Those are games my wife likes,
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  so I was able to get those played at home. The other ones said
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  much harder, so I was the twenty twenty one Family ten by ten Challenge.
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  Now the twenty twenty two Family ten by ten Challenge was done much the
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  same. On this one, again we picked a number of different games.
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  I got their input, but I think I decided I don't know if I
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  gave everybody picks or not, and it had much the same result. It
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  was better. I ended up with fifty two percent instead of thirty one,
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  but still significant drop. So we did Kingdom or Are Rifted in time.
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  That was eight plays. We got the most closest on that gloom Haven Jaws,
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  the lie In five, the Bureau of Investigation four so Clover for Cascadia
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  two, The Animals of Baker Street four, Dice Minor ten. That's the
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  only one I made all ten, Arcanova five, Libertalia, Winds of Gailcrest
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  six, and Super Skill Pinball four Kade four. Now, Super Skill Pinball
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  is a particularly lame one to have failed on, in the same way that
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  Underfalling Skies is a lame one to fail on because those are solo games.
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  I definitely should have time to play those, but I didn't make time,
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  and so I came up short. Those are all fun games, though,
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  and most of them are still in my collection. I also think it was
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  sort of dumb to put Bureau the Bureau of Investigation, and Animals of Baker
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  Street on there, since neither of those has ten plays in the box.
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  I don't know what I was thinking putting them on the list. You literally
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  couldn't play those ten times, so what was I thinking? Anyway? Maybe
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  I put them on there without knowing how many plays were in the box either
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  way, fifty two percent. So last year I decided to make a concerted
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  effort to do more. I kind of went back to me governing it,
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  and I decided to go a little different than game titles so the game instead.
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  I chose designers, and I said, if I play a game by
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  that designer, I get a score for it. And I decided to track
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  it in two ways. I said I would keep track of how many plays
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  I did online and keep track of how many plays I did in person,
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  and kind of track it both ways. So if I look at the online
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  plays, I'm only six short of one hundred if you combine in person and
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  online plays. If you just look at our in person plays, I'm more
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  at fifty percent or so. So here's the outcome. Martin Wallace I had
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  more than ten online plays but only six in person. Vladimir Succi eight in
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  person, more than ten online, Rynder Kanizia six in person, more than
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  ten online Inca Brand only two in person. More than ten online to two
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  in person were exit games. I think I thought I was going to pick
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  up an INCA Brand game or two that I could play, and I never
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  did. Phil Walker Harding is the only one I did not complete online.
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  I only got six online plays with him and only three in person ones.
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  Tom Lehman more than ten online, five in person, almost all res our
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  Connor, I'm sure. Elizabeth Hargrave I got two in person and a total
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  of eight online or up to eight, So again a little short there.
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  Part of that too, I think I thought I would play more Wingspan than
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  I did. Vladavato we went over ten online plays just two in person,
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  both both code names. I believe Ube Rosenberg over ten online, two in
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  person, and Karl Chuddick four in person over ten online, So, like
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  I said, ninety eight percent online, only a couple in person for some
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  of those. That was a really fun one though, because it was fun
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  to look at different designers, but it ended up being not very purposeful,
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  Like I would just play a game by a designer and market on the thing.
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  I wouldn't. I wasn't actively seeking them out. So, as you'll
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  recall, this year, we decided to do more categories like we were doing
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  before, and the categories are divided up not by designer but by sort of
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  game theme or other structuring device, and we're making pretty good progress. It
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  might, in fact be too easy. I think I may add to the
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  list the natural ten by ten as well. Just started keeping track of what
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  games have I played ten times? Maybe I'll do a ten for ten online
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  and a ten for ten in person. I don't know that I have any
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  games that I'm playing in person that much, but we'll see. It'd be
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  interesting to look. So that's kind of where I am right now. How
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  are you tracking what games you play? How has your thinking about how to
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  track games changed over time? Do you look at what games you're playing differently
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  now than you did before? And how so I'd love to hear about it.
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  Head over to board game Get Killed three two sixty nine and share your
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  thoughts there. Thanks for joining me on my walk today. I hope your
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  next walk because as plezzans as mine was. Good Bye, m deliver An
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