101 things update

[miss_newham]

I only have one new thing to tick off my 101 things list, but it's a biggie - I have played 101 different games! Aptly enough, I finished the challenge on Kevan's birthday. When I wrote the list it always seemed quite likely that I'd manage this one, given we have a large library of board games at home and friends who sometimes come to stay with an entire crate of their games; but then the Ludoquist cafe opened in Croydon and became our favourite social space, and they kindly bought a lot more games so we didn't have to. Also, Croydon God-daughter has become quite an able games player, so now it's a thing we can sometimes do with her. I'm not sure that I'm actually particularly interested in games per se, and my poor memory for the rules means I'll never be very skilled at them, but I like that they're a good way of spending time with other people. And sometimes they're quite funny.

Here's the entire list of games, seeing as I bothered to log them as I went along. This will not be of any interest to more than two of you, but perhaps you can spot which ones were not endorsed by Kevan... There are way too many games named after a Japanese word here - I have very little idea which one is which!

1. Race for the Galaxy
2. Biblios
3. Codenames Duet
4. Beyond Baker Street
5. Queen Dominoes
6. Pokemon Monopoly
7. Odin's Ravens
8. Santorini
9. Wetland
10. Fugitive
11. Safari Jack
12. Chief Herman's Next Big Thing (three small games from this, erm, compendium?)
13. Paperback
14. Mysterium
15. Fauna
16. Magic Maze
17. Sagrada
18. Sushi Go/Sushi Go Party
19. Kokoro
20. Sluff Off!
21. Timeline/Timeline: Historical Events
22. Azul/Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra
23. Ice Cool
24. For Sale
25. Skull
26. Michael Strogoff
27. Animal Upon Animal
28. Forbidden Desert
29. Harry Potter Cluedo
30. Exit the Game: The Cabin in the Woods
31. Mottanai
32. The Infinite Board Game
33. Carcassonne
34. Innovation
35. The Great Wall of China
36. Nmbr 9
37. New York Slice
38. Campanile
39. Onitama
40. Magic the Gathering
41. Kingdomino
42. Coloretto
43. Cats Mansion
44. Boggle
45. Katarenga
46. Broom Service
47. Lost Cities
48. Unlock
49. Burgle Bros.
50. The Mind
51. High Society
52. Can't Stop
53. Get Lucky
54. Dice Forge
55. Yahtzee
56. Potato Man
57. Space Hulk
58. Kingdom Builder
59. Evolution
60. Sheriff of Nottingham
61. Shithead
62. Takanoko
63. Small World Underground
64. Fungi
65. Basari
66. The Fox and the Forest
67. Port Royal
68. Splendour
69. Elder Sign
70. Reef
71. Hanamikoji
72. Explorers of the North Sea
73. Rage
74. Dropmix
75. Tokyo Highway
76. A Fake Artist Goes to New York
77. Cobra Paw
78. Qwinto
79. Ganz Schön Clever
80. Keyforge
81. Dice Hospital
82. Golf (card game)
83. Red 7
84. Uno
85. Betrayal at Balder's Gate
86. Sun Tzu
87. Rummikub
88. Contract Rummy
89. Obama Llama
90. Wingspan
91. Illusion
92. Caverna: Cave vs Cave
93. 7 Wonders Duel
94. Bunny Kingdom
95. Diamant
96. Such A Thing
97. Saga of the Northmen
98. Tiny Towns
99. Voodoo Prince
100. Sundae Split
101. Flamme Rouge

Comments

[dansette]

Take a bow! This is very impressive!!

[miss_newham]

Why, thank you!

[nou]

Gosh that’s a lot!

[miss_newham]

You've met Kevan, right? :)

[kittenesque]

That's a very exciting achievement! We have regular board game sessions on a Friday lunchtime in my regular team at work so I'm always looks for more recommendations. Are there any that you particularly enjoyed?

[miss_newham]

Aw, that's a nice thing to do at work! I've been pondering this and trying to remember which ones aren't 2-player games only. Azul and Santorini are good fun and both would fit into a lunch hour. Oh, and Paperback, which I like as I think it's basically Scrabble for people who hate Scrabble... Tokyo Highway is quite a good game of balancing sticks on counters till you build something that looks like Spaghetti Junction, but it's a bit stressful if you knock over everyone else's roads... And Codenames, Sushi Go and A Fake Artist Goes To New York all passed the difficult test of keeping my family entertained at Christmas.

[demiabeille]

Good lord. I've played about 5 games in the past year! I'll get back to it at some point :)
Some lovely ones there. Got any faves?

[miss_newham]

Crikey! Well, I still hold you partially responsible for the existence of the Ludoquist, which has genuinely made Croydon a better place to be.

To be honest I'm still not much of a gamer, so I like Qwinto and Ganz Schön Clever because they're a bit like Yahtzee and Ice Cool because of the penguins... We play Azul a lot now though, that's probably the household favourite,