First, Happy New Year! Woo! 2021 is in the books. Here’s a look back at my gaming log for 2021 and plans for 2022.<\/p>\n
For 2021 I set up my 10×10 with 9 specific games and one special row called “Pick It!” The extra row was designed to allow some flexibility in which games actually got played, while the other 9 games were (hopefully) going to be ones that I have either had for a while (and really enjoy playing) or have had for a while (and needed to get to the table). Ultimately I completed, officially, five of my ten rows. One, of course, was the Pick It! row, as you might imagine. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I played ten games of Defenders of the Realm<\/em> last year. I completed this one playing a couple of games solo (lost both) and several games in person plus a couple over Zoom. Enjoyed them all. I still find this a fun game.<\/p>\n I played ten games of Carcassonne<\/em>, mostly because that’s a shorter \/ quicker game that I can play in the evenings with my wife. I had put Calico<\/em> on the list for the same reason but we only played that six times last year so we didn’t make the full row.<\/p>\n We did play ten games of Pandemic<\/em> mostly because we picked 2021 to finally get around to playing Pandemic Legagy Season 1<\/em>. I have already written several posts about that; all I will say here is that it was part of the best gaming for the year.<\/p>\n My “must get this game to the table” game for 2021 was Wingspan<\/em>. It was all the “Hotness” a few years back, and I bought and sold several copies during the times that it was going in and out of print regularly. I finally opened my copy and got it to the table. I had a Game Weekend with a friend, and we played eight games in two days, and he went out and bought a copy for his own family to enjoy.<\/p>\n Those are the five games that I completed my 10x challenge. What else happened? As mentioned, we got in six plays of Calico<\/em>. We added five games of Takenoko<\/em>, six of Dead of Winter<\/em>, a couple Red Dragon Inn<\/em> and several Codenames<\/em>. Overall I filled in 72 slots of my official 10×10 grid. Does that mean I failed?<\/p>\n I say, “No, not really.” In the margins of my sheet I wrote down all of the other games that I played for the year, and how many times I played them. The goal of a 10×10 is to get some games to the table. While I was 28 short of fulfilling that goal with the limited ten games I listed, I added 62 additional games to my “played in 2021” list. It included four games of chess and 14 games of Quarto<\/em> with my younger son. I met a new group of gamers who meet on Wednesday evenings in downtown Carrollton. With that group I played Stone Age<\/em> and Deep Vents<\/em> (both of which I had played before) as well as Colosseum<\/em> (an older OOP Days of Wonder game), Village<\/em> (a worker placement \/ resource management game where your meeples have to eventually die to win the game), and Merlin<\/em>, recently released as a “big box” edition from Queen Games. Our regular gaming family played a couple of games of Red November<\/em> with us. And much to my surprise, I managed to get one new game from 2020 to the table almost immediately and played two sessions of Lost Ruins of Arnak<\/em>.<\/p>\n So, for the year 2021 I played (or at least logged) 134 games. As I am writing this I remember we played some games during a summer camp (Zombie Dice<\/em> and Travel Qwirkle<\/em> and Hive<\/em>) that didn’t make it to my game log notes. That means I won! Woo!<\/p>\n For 2022 instead of a 10×10 I have opted to set up a 20×5. For the past two years I have noticed that it’s harder for me to get one game played ten times than it is to get multiple games played. A 20×5 is now twenty games I plan to play at least five times, which seems to fit my game playing patterns better. And yes, some of those 20×5 games will be “Pick It!” as before.<\/p>\n What are some of my tentative plans for 2022? Well, Nemesis<\/em> is coming in. I picked up a used copy of Spirits of the Wild<\/em> and it has been a fun evening game to play with my wife. I forgot how much I enjoyed Stone Age<\/em> until it came up with my Wednesday night group; I hope to play it some more. And my “game that’s sitting on the shelf for far too long without being played” game (the role Wingspan<\/em> played for 2021) is going to either be Quacks of Quedlinberg<\/em> or Everdell<\/em>, still to be decided.<\/p>\n Oh, and Flamecraft<\/em> is scheduled to ship in 2022. I hope they make it, and assume that if it does, that will definitely be one of the games that I want to see get to the table. \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First, Happy New Year! Woo! 2021 is in the books. Here’s a look back at my gaming log for 2021 and plans for 2022. 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