I suppose I should firstly wish everyone a Happy New Year.

I hope the upcoming year is kinder on us all than last year.

One of the things people do is set New Year resolutions. I’ve done the gamer equivalent this year and created two new challenges!

The first is the “Play 20 New To Me Games” challenge. Which is the follow up to the narrowly failed “Play 15 New To Me Games” challenge that has just ended.

The second challenge I decided on after I had a moment of inspiration. The light bulb came on so to speak whilst discussing the super duper, easily one of the top 5 worker placement games of all time, The Manhattan Project, the card game version Chain Reaction, and sequel 2 Minutes to Midnight.

Despite owning 2 Minutes to Midnight I’d never ever got it to the table. I needed something to help encourage me to get this and other games in the collection I haven’t played to the table.

That’s when the idea came to me to setup a challenge in the bgstat app to do just that.

Hence the “Play my Unplayed Owned Games” challenge.

It was so easy to set up. I just had to tell it to add all my unplayed games to the new list. After removing games I knew I had played (but that was before I started using bgstat) I was left with 57 unplayed games in my collection!

That did surprise me a little. But then when I see how many games I have in the collection, that number always amazes me. It doesn’t look that many for sure!

How I got to that many unplayed games I have no idea.

Both new challenges will run for a full calendar year this time. I don’t expect to complete the unplayed games challenge. But it sure would be nice to make a good dent into it.