February for one reason or the other was a bad month for me gaming wise.
It was nearly going into first lockdown numbers.
Being honest I did miss it. I enjoy gaming. Especially the social aspect. I like gaming with my friends.
Here’s hoping March is much better.
Here are the less than impressive stats for the month.
Here we are for the first time in 2025 looking at the gaming stats for the start of the year.
It didn’t feel like I did much gaming in January but comparing it with December I did play more games. Which surprised me.
Here is that all important raw data behind the above 3×3.
It’s a struggle to write this post or any really because most of my time is taken up with Dolly and helping her settle in at the moment.
However she is so well behaved, except when it comes to food. Dolly is such a fast eater. To give Nico and Loki a chance I have to take Dolly out for a little walk.
But she is such an amazing character. I’m really lucky to have her share her life with me.
Let’s start off this summary post of gaming with December.
Like previous years this December was no different with few gaming opportunities due to all that seasonal stuff going on. Add on top of that the chest infection. What you end up with is very little gaming happening.
The surprise game of the month was getting an opportunity to play Thunderbirds the board game. But I’ll write that up as a separate post.
I’m not going to compare the figures with 2023, but I played more games this year, and a lot more new games to me were played. Which did surprise me.
I think one gaming highlight of the year for me was getting back into Dice Masters. It’s still as much fun as I had remembered. Plus creating new ways to play with others such as building a cube and drafting helped find others to play the game with me.
Ok here is the full list of the 93 games I played in 2024.
I played 72 new to me games this year. That’s the majority of the games I played in 2024.
Obviously I haven’t bought 72 new games this year.
Using the filters within the Bgstats app I was able to find out that 35 of those games were mine. Or I bought my own copy after playing someone else’s copy. Cubed is one such example.
The full list of new to me games is shown below.
So out of these games which is my game of 2024?
It was close. I nearly went with my most played game of the year Star Wars Unlimited. However I think that there has been one more deserving of the honour for me. That game is …
Strike.
Strike is such a blast to play. It’s been a hit with those I’ve played it with.
It’s quick to play, so much fun. There are great random dice roll moments. We’ve laughed a lot.
And it’s those reasons that Strike is my game of 2024.
I’ll just end this boring round up by wishing everyone a
It’s that time once again to share my gaming stats as recorded in the fantastic Bgstats app.
I think the big take away is how much I (and the others I played it with) like Strike!
You know the format of these posts they always start with the pretty eye candy of the 3×3.
Then we close the post off with the stats insights for those interested.
Autumn is well and truly upon us. The clocks have gone back, and the English fascination with the weather and the many ways to describe rain kicks into high gear.
October was an ok month for gaming.
Two of the new games I tried during the month ended up with copies in my collection. In fact a third has just been ordered after looking at the 3×3 below. I decided to google if it was possible to get a copy, and before I know it I’m getting a Korean/English version off eBay!
I played Phoenix New Horizon (PHN) last Friday on the clubs get it to the table night. But decided not to say anything at the time. I had a good time playing it. However at the end I was left feeling a bit meh! It was fine.
It’s a worker placement game with a paper thin theme. PHN is meant to have a post apocalyptic theme. For this the theme could really be anything. I felt it didn’t come through.
The action select had a new twist with its upgrading the worker mechanic that also saw more powerful actions becoming available.
The game just didn’t knock my socks off.
Anyway enough waffling. Here’s the raw stats for October.
Not many board games played as previous months. But like the good old days of when I was playing MtG I got in a few games of Star Wars Unlimited.
Right here is the pretty 3×3 of the games I got to play this month.
Here is the rather shorter than usual stats behind the 3×3 image above.
Just a brief intro. It’s that time again where I share what I have been playing for the month just gone.
Well I certainly played more this month than in recent months.
It has felt I’ve played lots more than I actually did.
The Tuesday lcg/tcg/ccg evening is back. And I’m loving it.
There have been some great moments through out the month. I’m lucky to have such great friends willing to share those gaming moments with.
Here are the raw stats for July.
This month has been weird.
I knew it was going to be lacking on the gaming front.
Work was giving me shifts that really weren’t conducive to playing games with others.
However gaming finds a way, and I managed to play some games. More than I expected.
There was even a last day of the month game session with Diego and Marcin. Which seemed to mirror the last day of May at UKGE and playing games with Ben and Harrison. These two last minute flurry of gaming pushed up the stats for both months making them look less sad than they were.
Luckily after this weeks holiday and four shifts of lates I make the jump back to early shifts. Which means a return to club night and being able to start back up the mid week lcg/ccg night. So there is a silver lining to gaming.
At the start of the month I was a bit down on my lack of gaming opportunities for the month ahead.
But as George Formby’s catch phrase goes “turned out nice again” (this really does age me. Growing up back in the day on the whole 3 channels that we had his movies were regularly shown).
In reality this was three gaming sessions and a chance to play some games with Ben at the expo.
Two thirds of the games played this month were new to me. That’s pretty high. Five of the games were trick takers. I like Ben do enjoy a good trick taking game.
I’m hoping June will be a back to normal. But we are now entering that time of year of Summer holidays. So the next couple of months might be just as barren on the gaming opportunities.