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BTN June 2016

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It’s the start of another month, which means it is time to look at my gaming stats for the previous month. 

I thought I’d have better stats this month because of attendance at the UK Games Expo. However I didn’t get to play as much there as I’d hope for. The drawbacks of attending a gaming expo by yourself, and not as a group of some description.

I’ve played some really great games this month, I’d be hard pressed to say that I disliked any I played. With some of the games like Fluxx, Love Letter, I’m trying to ration my plays so that I don’t burn out on them, and keep enjoying them.

My Game of the Month

Once again this has been a really hard decision to make. The contenders making this such a hard choice this month are; The Voyages of Marco Polo, Guilds of London, The Great Heartland Hauling Co. and Imhotep. 

These are all great games, and different from each other. All of them I’d ask to play again. How to decide? 

This is tough, I know as soon as I choose one I’ll regret not choosing the others! 

I’m going to copout and choose all four as my game(s) of the month. There is nothing between them for me to decide between them. I’ve got a great time playing all four of them.

The Pile of Shame Five

At the end of March I set a target of five games to try and get to the table during the next quarter. This is my poor attempt at reducing my pile of shame.

So how did I do? I got the following two games from the list to the table.

  • Ashes
  • Dead of Winter

Whilst I also got Neuroshima Hex! and Roll for the Galaxy to the table from the also rans.

So not a bad effort.

But it’s time to set a new five for the next quarter. So here are the ones I’m going to attempt to get to the table:

  • Imperial Assault
  • Marvel Legendary
  • Alien Frontiers
  • A Game of Thrones
  • Suburbia

Let’s see how I do getting these ones to the table.

My Feb 2016 Gaming Stats

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So I'm still going strong recording my game plays using the BG Stats app on my iPhone. Which means for my second month of using the app I am now able to present to you my gaming stats for the month of February.

I actually increased my number of plays this month from 24 in January to 31. But this was for only 12 games, down by one from January.

By far my most played game of the month has been Android Netrunner, with Pandemic Legacy Season 1 and Jonathan's Streets of Commonville drawing level for the number of plays.

It also looks like I have been more sociable last month too, having played games with eleven people!

I think the take home summary is I've played more and been more social in a shorter month than the previous one.

I think for March I don't think that there will be much change for the top three played games. But hey who knows what other games I will get to the table or try.

So far I've not managed to get any of the following:

  • Five Tribes
  • Magic the Gathering Arena of the Planeswalker
  • Discoveries
  • T.I.M.E. Stories
  • Ashes Rise of the Phoenixborn

 

To the table yet.

The challenge was to get as many of these as possible to the table within the quarter. March is the last month of this quarter. It's not looking good.

 

Gaming Stats for Jan 2016

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Since just before the New Year kicked in I came across an app for tracking the plays of boardgames. What was extra cool with this app was that it links with the bgg website and updates your play sessions on there also. Hence the embedded last game played widget on the right of the blog.

With me recording all my game plays on this app, it gives me some nice stats. Those stats I have put below. Remember that the anon player is used by me to record one off game plays against people I usually play against, and most likely won't for a long time.

I expect next month Pandmic Legacy will be my most played game of the month.