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78. We're going to talk about
unplayed games or your shelf of shame, as always.
I'm PJ. And I'm Gareth.
And we have. Some opportunities.
Or things we are or. Whatever we're going to talk
about, right? We are here, we are back, we are
together and it's great. Good to see you as always.
Hi. So yeah, we were talking about,
you know, just what what? What are we going to talk about
this week, right? We're going to talk about the
many piles of games that I have on my shelf or most often on the
floor, and where you excel of not having any, which is those
games that have been not been played.
You know, that's why this conversation, this topic was
compelling because you and I tackle it very differently.
But I thought, I thought we would talk about not just what
are what, how many unplayed games you have and why, but I
thought about extrapolating and talking about strategies for
getting rid of your unplayed, not getting rid of playing your
unplayed games. Right.
Yeah. Yeah.
Things that, you know, our listeners can be like, oh, I
should start doing that. I mean, the obvious one is
invite me to your house for a week, right?
I mean that's. I still don't think it'd help
based on when I go through some of the things that are unplayed,
yeah, and and how long they've been unplayed for.
You know, it's kind of it's true because I visited you and we
didn't play anything you didn't play.
There we go. You see?
Yeah. Failed.
Yeah, so I do. Think it requires some dedicated
focus, like there's a set of games, the Facade games that has
been a joke, an ongoing joke between me and Nick Ball Game
Review UK for about 3 years because they've been on my shelf
a long time and I think we've now and nearly played all of
them. Only because every time I go
visit I put them in the bag and we've now managed to do it to do
3 which as I love stats Tortuga 1667 which I played with Nick
two weeks ago was on myself of shame for 2627 days, which if I
just grab my calculator is 7.1 years.
That's a long time. I've got worse, which will come
later. So OK.
Anyone can beat that. Put that in the comments.
We're we're currently at 7 years.
Again, that sat for myself. Seven years?
Wow. So man, there's a lot of ways to
start this conversation. Where do you want to go?
I know. Well, I guess this, well, I
guess people call it chef of shame.
You've done some research I did in your kind of analytical
minds. Yep.
Do you want to share kind of what you found that we can make
some others up as we go? Sure.
So I reached out to some folks on Instagram, some friends of
mine here in the Springfield area, and I was like, OK,
shellfish shame. All right, what do you call?
And. And I made sure to ask the
question as diplomatically as possible.
What do you call your shelf of unplayed games?
Right. On it.
I got six different answers, right.
And there's no judgement on any of these answers.
This is just what people choose to call their own, their own
show. Because as you know, this is
rather, this can be decisive. Divisive, right?
Some people get emotional about it, so the obvious one will get
it out of the way quickly. Your shelf of shame, right?
Yeah. You know, yes, I understand the
implications that you're somehow shaming yourself for not playing
a game. I I get that.
And that's the origins. I use it for the alliteration,
it's just easy to say, right? However, the next one works just
as well and I think I may adopt it.
I think it's a good one. And that is your shelf of
shrink. Oh yeah, see Nick preference,
that's two call outs. There we go.
He calls it that and I think that's a lovely name, but it has
got some bits we'll talk about in a minute that I find
challenging. So the idea is that the game is
still wrapped in shrink wrap. So.
I can't cope with that it. Should shove a shrink, right?
You're right though. Open the box.
No, that's the problem is you open the box, open.
The box I want to see the shiny bits.
And that's something we'll talk about too, in a minute.
Now, recently, we're seeing a lot more people call it their
shelf of opportunity because it's a future, future
opportunity to play the game. I get that.
I like it. I understand.
Trying to get away from the shame emotion, but OK, I like
that. Now here's one.
I thought this one was OK. It's a little on the nose, but
sure shelf of unplayed purchases.
And I'm like, that's what you. I love it.
I'm like, is that really what you call it?
Yes. I'm like, talk about it.
Yeah. This is where my unplayed
purchases currently are shelved. I'm like, OK, all right, very
good. It's not very original, but you
know what? There it is.
The next one I really like. It was an interesting
exploration, explanation, exploration explanation, shelf
of overflow. Shelf of overflow.
Overflow. Yeah, I mean, some people do
limit themselves. Like, I'm only ever having 100
ball games or I'm only having games where I have physically
put them on the shelf. Yes, and if you go over you've
got overflow. Right.
Nice. Yeah, I thought it was
interesting. Now the last one, Well, I guess
it's not the last one because I just came up with one on my own
and I'm going to share that one Last someone said they call it
their shelf of culling. See.
Yeah, see I I get. That's probably too much the
overflow that if if I haven't played it, do I get rid of it?
Most of the time there is. Well, I'll come to come to Why
do these shelves grow? We're covered in a minute, but
time, but OK. Right.
So that's, that's another one. It's like, OK, so these are
games you've not played, that you're planning on selling
because you haven't played them in a long time and that that's
why they call it that. I'm like, OK, I accept that as a
plausible explanation Now. The last one is the one I just
came up with while we were talking.
So this is never before revealed.
OK, so it's I'm taking a term from my work.
How about this? Your shelf of backlog.
Backlog. Yeah, I like it.
So because because I'm an archivist, records that have not
yet been processed in our collection, it's the, it's the
backlog, it's you have all this work that you have to do, but
it's, it's your backlog and sounds like your shelf of
backlog there we go. So yeah.
I've I've just asked ChatGPT to come up with 10 literally while
I've been chatting. Do you do you want to hear the
the query was provide me a few names for for for names for ball
games that I have too many of. An example would be shelf of
Shame, Pile of potential. That's a shame, no?
I love the alliteration. Though unplayed, Treasure Troves
board game backlog bonanza. Oh can.
You set in a trend all like this one.
The shelf of unfinished stories. Game graveyard.
Oh. Box Adventures awaiting ice,
Dungeon of neglect, Unexplored territory Table.
OK. Oh, the library of lost plays.
Anyway, there's a bit of AI generated content for us.
So Gareth, tell us what is in your library of lost plays.
So if anyone hasn't ever checked out, there's there's a website
called Geek Group dot App APP which you connect to Ball Game
Geek and it is a treasure trove of statistics.
Like, it's brilliant and it has a whole section for a shelf of
shame. You can even rename the section
depending on what you want to call it.
So you can now call it your library of lost.
I know you can have your opportunity or shame, but you
know, but it doesn't allow you to have a preference.
So it tells me there's 134 games on myself.
A shame, which I then went, oh, that's more than I thought.
But I looked and it's because I've logged loads of games,
freebies, samples. I've removed about 50, so
there's about 80 games on my shelf of shame.
Opportunity, shrink. That's that.
That's a lot. How many is on yours?
And we're going to talk about this later 0. 0.
Correct. Good.
Yeah, I feel. Shame.
I just feel shame. No, see the the the lowest my
selfish shame has ever been was October 2021.
Now COVID did a lot for unplayed game.
For shame. Yes, absolutely.
It was down at 89, so that that's the top level stats.
So let me ask a question. Yeah, you removed 50, you said
134. You removed 50 and went down at
84. Yeah.
Could you say a little more about those 50 games?
Why? Why were they removed and what
criteria did you use to remove them from consideration?
Either. They're either already in the
the pile of games to sell, OK, because I invested and they
haven't hit the table, so they have been, they have been cold
or overflowed or whatever we called it earlier, OK?
And then there's for example, there's a pack of these little
mini car games where you get 10 games in the pack.
OK. And I've played like two of
them. The rest I wouldn't be
interested in all eight as selected as being unplayed.
But these are like promos or something that.
Yeah, or like kids games we've had when there's like there's
little packs of games that get extra bits in it, so they're
all, you know, or there's been promos, or there's been games
I've been given either for free or for review that I've played
as a Psalm. I'd like a test, you know, for
like Kickstarters, but I've logged the game in my
collection. But actually it's not complete.
It's not a it's not a finished finished copy.
So I could already do culling, my actual games collection app.
OK, I was looking at the most recent games that drop off that
list and there's some interesting bits.
So the games have been added to that list and then have dropped
off. So the most recent game was
Wingspan. Asia obviously came with the, I
think the Wingspan box that was only played 21st of April, so a
week a week ago today. OK, that sat on the shelf for
527 days. OK.
So about a year and a half. Which the reason for that was
because it ended up being inside the big wingspan, wingspan box,
which then ended up coming upstairs to the.
So all of the big box games that have become excessive come
upstairs into the office. So.
And he's out of sight. This might be one of the
problems. So you and I, you and I have
both implemented this same strategy, right?
Is our collections in our basement.
However, the large box games like Wingspan in the nesting
box, Yeah, I think the problem is that they're in your office,
correct? Yeah.
So they are out of sight, whereas ours are in our living
room so. I've tried.
I've. I've had this no argument.
That's the wrong words. I've had the discussion with my
wife OK and that wasn't approved.
OK. OK.
That's fair. Well, I've tried the why.
We could put them downstairs and we could see them all the time
in the lounge. Right, so we have a 2 by 4
Calacs grid in the in the living room.
Yeah, yeah. And they're filled with also
Frost Haven, Gloom Haven the the nesting box for Wingspan, the
large western legends box Isafarian Guard, which is so big
it doesn't actually fit in an actual cube.
It's a couple of those, so. It sits up on the top on top,
yeah. So you know, we have a few
others like that. So if we want to, if we have
more than four people over, because our game table in our
basement only it accommodates 4 comfortably.
So if we're going to have five people over, we're going to play
upstairs, we'll grab those. So yeah, I think that's that's a
contributing factor to a game being in your shrink shame
opportunity backlog. Yeah, come up with a funky name.
Yeah. The other four games is so
Harrow County which I which was in the hit the table within 13
days so it. Arrived That game arrived when
you picked us up from the train station.
A day and it hit the table. A week and a half later and we
played it again today and I love it.
Tortuga. I've mentioned Stone Spine
Architects 16 Days and then the the last one of the games of the
Shame Pile was Cathedral of Onio, which was 93 days and then
it went straight on the sail pole because I didn't enjoy it.
Oh, you didn't? No.
So Katie's one of her favorite games is or Leo.
Oh, you're same. Same.
But Cathedral of El Leon? It's two family.
Even. Carrie said to me, this is a
family game. Why?
Because I like or Leon. It sounded fun, but it if you
had if you had kids or or probably newer gamers will find
it OK. So why didn't you bring it up
last week when we talked about family games?
Because it's in the pile to be sold.
I love it. I love it.
So how about the game in your backlog?
Yeah. That's been there the longest.
OK so I just need to get account clear.
OK. So it's the longest game is 3731
days, which is, let's be honest, over 10 / 10 years without.
Being on the camera. Wow.
So it's a game called Burning Suns which I only spoke about to
the gaming group in Southampton a week ago.
OK it was a Kickstarter that took a long time to arrive
because the designer, who I now unfortunately forget his name,
first time designer Kickstarter that he was also in the army and
would end up being called off to do work and we'll just vanish.
And he had a few challenges with the production.
That all it's it's basically a mixture of eclipse, twilight,
struggle kind of space. OK.
Beautiful components are all. It's a beautiful game and I
think when I invested in it I thought we get get it to the
table and we just haven't. However, with the larger gaming
group, I believe we can. I do believe we can get this
done. Looking at the rest of the
games, there's Clinic, Small City and Tramways are in the top
five, and they're all by the same designer.
Oh, OK. Who, which is Al Alban viad now
Clinic got a reskin. It got republished.
They're all heavy weight games now.
I have played Clinic, clinic, Clinic Solo, but I haven't
logged it because I haven't played it with with anyone else.
But they're all heavy, complex games and interestingly, those
two are upstairs next to me right now.
And of course they are. So maybe that might be the
problem, but they are heavy like 4.4 you know, super top end
complexity. Not very pretty, but they are
good designs. Other games are just games that
for some reason March of the Ants I refuse to get rid of.
2864 days where you're running an Ant colony just haven't got.
I've learnt it and a lot of these games I have learnt
somehow just never got, never got to the table.
So it begs the question. It begs the.
Question. It says this boa's not been
played. That means I've missed actually
logging the game. Because I've played that, yeah,
there's a data error. These are these aren't
acceptable. Acceptable.
So it begs the question, before we move forward, So what?
What is an Ant? What's an Ant farm?
March of the Ants. March of the ants, OK.
March of the Ants. You said specifically about this
game, you refuse to get rid of it.
It's seven or eight years on your list, but.
Every time I think about I go. I haven't played that game and
every time I learn the rules and think, oh this game's really
good, but somehow I I don't know how so So I was thinking a
minute ago I wrote this down a bit next to me.
What I used to do would stick small post it, sticky post it
notes sure on to the games. So whenever I looked at when we
said they watch you play tonight, I'd end up sticking
posting you know look at the post notes again.
I haven't played these, but then you think so.
Everyone learn new game. OK.
And whether through lockdown, whether we have more time to
learn and then play. But I need to, we need to
schedule it. I need to literally say right
this month we're going to tackle Burning Suns or we're going to
tackle March of the Ants, everyone to watch, watch the
video and play it. But what's even worse, we'll
come back to this a minute, but I put all of my expansions
inside the main box. I try to if I can.
Yes, then I forget that I've had expansions.
OK. How the hell do I track my shelf
of unplayed expansions? Because I for me that.
Must be. For me, I don't.
That's not normally, that's not a consideration.
But I've definitely got expansions I've bought, I've put
them into the main box and we've not played, I've never played
expansions. OK, you know what, that's fair.
So Taverns of TIFF Tiffenthal. Right.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
OK. So like it comes with all the
different that's modules that's not expansion.
But even. But yeah, but you buy modules,
didn't you? Yes, and we haven't.
I put them, we haven't. We haven't played them all yet.
So only on that's the plague expansion that came out.
Which we don't have. Is which I've purchased and it's
in the box. So you haven't played it yet?
Because I've because you forget I need, I need to make.
So my question to you would be, my question to you is if you
were to, if you were to go ahead and play orally on tonight, you
open up the box, the play expansion's in there.
Obviously we all do this. You make the decision to include
the play expansion or not. I reckon we wouldn't because we
because we'd go there oh let's remind ourselves of the base
rules to make sure that we've got well maybe we would I think
the base rules we know really well anyway but but that comes
back to should you follow the shelf of shrink and that box
remains. So shrink.
But then I go. I'll get.
I've got to keep spaces limited, so I pour it in the box and go.
No one knows because it's Spanish.
There's no more. Yeah, box.
But I forget. Yeah, you know, it's interesting
because, you know, so I'm looking at Tang Garden right
now, right? That's got more content coming,
isn't? It yes, it does.
But it also has a big box, so you know where it's going.
It's going upstairs. There's, but I'm thinking about,
I'm listening to you talk about expansions.
And then I was thinking, oh, but designers are starting to create
these big boxes to fill everything in.
So it's in one box. And one of the things I love
about that is I can put the boxes on my wall as art.
So. Oh yeah, right.
Like, like these are all the struggles.
Like we all, we all experience and it's like, what do you do?
Because that is, I think, I think we've talked about before.
But when I first started gaming, let's say 12 years ago,
properly, all the boxes were generally either the rectangular
size or the square size. Then Kickstarter came along and
then we've now got mega boxes and big boxes.
So yeah, Wingspan would have been one box and maybe it could
have got in the expansions. And I do.
I do tuck expansion boxes behind the back of a Calyx because
there's always a bit of depth space.
Oh, sure. But yeah, the game collection
space is actually now filled with bigger boxes.
So like, like we've done we've we've put them in their own
zone, which we're both lucky to do.
Yeah, yeah, I'm under the see that I bought Game Stats, The
app you can obviously track. It's got, it's got sections
where you can create challenges like yourself or shooting
yourself for shame. But I've never actually thought
to look about expansions. I suspect it does.
Yeah. That might be really bad.
Or really good. I mean, it just depends on how
you how you view your game collection, right?
I'll have to go through I think. I think it's quite an
interesting one. I like the idea of of post its
let's do that again I I do remind me that I haven't played
them it just it'll bring it'll bring it to to the minds of.
Right. So so should we talk about
strategies for getting your unplayed games played or keeping
your board game backlog? Because I I want to own that,
and I think we should all call it that.
I think because it's still alliteration board game backlog.
It's 2 words, not three, and it's accurate.
So should we talk about strategies for getting your
unplayed games played and reducing your backlog, your
board game backlog to as close to 0 as possible?
Should we talk about that? Yeah, I mean.
Because I I have strategies that I think would help people like
we said. Stop, stop buying.
What would be maybe a strategy. Yes, I'm far, I'm far better.
Yeah, I mean Kickstart, I think. I think most people I talk to
now have learnt the Kickstarter. You know, you don't have to have
the FOMO and let things. Just let things go.
I will say this travel international.
Having had the experience of visiting England, I want to
travel more, so say goodbye to Kickstarter.
OK. Yeah.
So you are investing, reinvesting the funds to a
different project, right? Yeah.
I mean. I think, I think so.
Carrie isn't a massive fan of learning new games, whereas I I
love learning new games. I just get a kick out of getting
a gamer table and learning it and that's half the battle on
some of these games. I have learnt and gone oh this
is brilliant And then I've gone to teach it and it's like, oh I
don't want to learn another game.
So then you get out only off and we play a game that everyone
knows then that that game you've forgotten.
You know unless you've unless you apply the game to to memory
or at least you have a have a go but you're we're talking about
which went the galleries earlier before you started recording
where you hadn't played it for a couple for a couple of for a
while and it took you a couple of hours.
The next time you played it it was an hour yeah.
But I think that's that's that's sometimes a problem and then
another game arrives and so you're like well which one to
get to table But I do find I do find the the ball game stats app
with the challenges the best one because it's I go through I
think this this is like 82 currently and then I just say to
Carrie what do you fancy playing And then we we pick one right.
So yeah. So not buying is a good idea.
I mean, OK, yes, but if people stop buying board games, then
there's no point in listening to our podcast anymore, because
they're not buying games, therefore they're not.
Well, I mean, they could be playing games.
But putting that aside, I'm not going to suggest you do whatever
you want with your money. I'm not.
I'm not here to tell you how do you buy?
But OK, you're going to buy games.
Your behaviour's not going to change, but you want to get that
backlog to 0. Here's a couple of things that
Katie and I do to maintain a 0 backlog, right?
Oh, and to be fair, the longest we've had a game in our backlog
in the past two years has been 1212 days. 12 days. 12 days, so
we try to maintain a backlog of 0.
And if you, let's say game came in today and you played it let's
say within 12 days, how quickly does that game come back to the
table? So is there, are you always
trying to keep up on the unplay, on the update part, but actually
the games? Oh yeah, you're not playing
other games. So the first thing we do is we
open a game and play it. I mean, I know that sounds
simple and silly, but you don't have a backlog.
If you purchase a game and you play it, it is no longer in your
unplayed backlog. Now that resets for us.
It resets. Oh yeah, because you have.
That's a great strategy at the. Beginning at the beginning of
the, at the beginning of the New Year, so on January 1, our
backlog is, well, I mean the whole idea of the backlog is
these are games that you've never played, right?
But we try to play every single game in our collection a minimum
one time each calendar year. Minimum one time, yeah.
And, and to be fair, sometimes we play a game just to play it
and tick it off the list. Yeah, yeah.
You know, and so we've been doing this for this is our third
year and we're usually between 95 and 97% of our collection is
played So well, PJ, what about that 3% unplayed?
Yeah. So that's when we evaluate
whether or not the first question is why hasn't it hit
our table? And we do this every year, and
this is kind of like a, a holiday tradition, right?
On New Year's Eve, before we go out and do whatever or get
together with the family or something, we kind of look at
our, we look at our statistics and we're like, OK, 'cause we
still have time, we could play on Earth and get it off our
list. Well, why haven't we played it
right? Yeah.
And. And so there, there are
mitigating circumstances sometimes, right?
Campaign games we put off to the side because you may not hit the
table this year, but it might next year.
Yeah. Yeah.
Because campaign games take more investment in time, right.
So like Gloom Haven, right. We've haven't played Bloom Haven
in two years. Yeah, but we played Gloomhaven
through twice, so it's like, you know, we're still debating on
what to do with it. Here's another one, although
this requires more skill than many people have, I certainly
don't is If you're not going to play a game anymore and you
don't feel like selling it, you can use the components of the
game to make crafts to decorate your house.
I mean. Yeah, I think, you know, legacy
games are great. You can't play them.
Ever. Again, legacy games.
I mean, any prototypes I get that the designers don't want
back, I'll do. I'll breakdown your components.
What I've got now is like it's massive, zippy, but a zip bag
full of wooden things and I need to get a jar like a jar to put
them all in. And make a glass.
Yeah, like a glass. Jar.
So here's what you do, because here's what you got.
Like a box frame or something. We do.
We've got some shadow boxes and various.
That's it. Yeah.
So you know what you do is you
ship. Ship it over.
Box your components over. Send them to me and Katie and I
will put something. Tell us what you want and we'll
put it together. And there be that's our
Christmas gift, right. You just send us the components.
Sounds like that sounds like not great use of carbon mileage.
Well, I know, but it's yeah, I know.
It's a good idea. Yeah.
Yeah, I could definitely do something because I've got bags
of it in the cupboard under the stairs where there's loads of
things unplayed. I just, I was just looking at my
other challenges and one one thing that we're trying to do is
play all our games at least five times.
Wow, but you have a large collection.
Though 55% of the way there, which was quite pretty fine,
yeah. And in there, in there is the
games that haven't, haven't been sold.
So, OK, yeah. So, so our stat for the year is
we're at 47.2% of our entire collection played once.
That is good going. We're not even.
We're not even in May yet, which is the 5th month.
So we will clearly be beyond 50% of our collection before the
year is 50% up. So and we just picked up new
games, I know that. So last year I did a live and
posted on Instagram. I didn't do it this year we had
our used game sale at Titan. Oh yeah, last weekend and so,
well, first of all, we didn't. We made out like bandits, like
we got a lot of store credit. We sold almost everything.
Did you? We did, yeah.
We had 20 games and we sold 18, so that's a pretty good game and
we did really well. We picked up a used copy of
First in Flight, which is fantastic.
It's already hit the table three times.
So you see there is we We definitely pick up a game and
play it. I've been wanting to tell you
this, it's not for this discussion, but I'll tell you
right now on air. Anyway, we picked up Hamlet the
Deluxe, the Deluxe version. Oh man, that game is cool.
We've only played it once, but very cool.
And then just recently, we picked up a copy of Abduction,
which I knew Katie was going to be rubber duckies in space.
Oh yeah, yeah, Rubber ducky, that one.
Yeah, it was the abduction. Or abduction.
Yeah, we've already, it is great.
And we played it a couple of times and then we picked up
harmonies. I've just started seeing, I've
just started seeing people posting it on Instagram.
Yeah, it's. You get these little wooden
tiles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've seen it. It popped up in.
It's popped up in the shops this week.
I think I disappeared in all of the.
I don't know much about it. It looks it looked really
pretty. It's, it is, it is pretty, but
it's cool. It's a little strategic and
yeah, we enjoy that. So those were our acquisitions.
Yeah, it's rated. It's rated.
You see. Yeah, it's rated 2.08.
Yeah. So you see we have no, we have
no backlog. Every game has been played from
the beginning. I think.
I think a strategy has to be a focus list.
Yes. You just got to get.
But I'm really up for trying Burning Suns.
It's not that complicated. Well I feel I'm so vested in it
that I just. I've got I've got I've got to
play it. You've got to play such a kick
side. Right.
OK next time. Next time We discussed this
topic. Let me see what weight it is.
Remind myself 3.33. You see 80.
We always talk about games. We always looking for games.
Best with five, this is. Best With five, I mean, it's.
There you go, designed. For the group designed Emil
Larsson was a designer. Intense Scientific notes.
Also, that's the other challenge.
She's Carrie's not a massive space.
She doesn't like science well. She said well, she says that
there are many exceptions to this rule.
Tactical 4X Thematic action. Burning Suns is not a
traditional 4X game. It takes 4X actions and gives
you complete tactical control. Create an empire.
Galaxy's in motion, Your empire. Your strategy like the
Kickstarter, came with another pack of the same characters with
slightly different asymmetric roles.
So not only was there like 15 anyway, he tweaked them to have
30 with all their own unique as you remember that the the ships,
the ships are moulds and then the ship is in on top of the
ship. It's a little holder for a die.
So it might be a triangular for like AD Four or AD 6 or AD 8 and
that's kind of their hit points. Or might have been their power
ministers long time ago. It'll be brilliant.
I think they even sat on Little Sandy's.
Oh come on, that's awesome. And you have and you have a game
group that fits the five player count.
And fits the space theme. And likes the space theme.
Yeah. So I right.
So do you think, I guess the last question, last question to
consider, is it just that there's too many games?
Yeah. I mean, is there just, is that
is that the reality? I I think there's a lot of the
games that are unplayed in my collection was from when I was
building the collection and was a little, a little bit looser on
what to invest in. Sure.
So most of the games are unplayed are from 5:00 or 6-7
years ago. Which is why there's. 789 Yeah,
Whereas a more modern game is more of a considered purchase
and probably I've become wiser in what I invest in.
I mean, that's a fairpoint and you could still get, you can
still get burnt today, yeah, yeah, but it's not as often
anymore. You just have to be more
discerning in your purchases. Commit to playing your entire
collection a minimum of once a year.
It's a great show because somebody else was doing the
Alphabet challenge. Yep, that's another way he's
tried to. But that's a problem.
That's a problem because if I have 5 games that start with the
letter D and I only play one of them, what about the others?
I got to play them too, you know.
Well, you could. You could do alphabet challenge
and pay your games your collection and probably keep two
challenges in one. I do think that I do think that
restricting the size of your collection is helpful.
And I seriously, seriously considered it recently.
Like having a coal. Really brutal coal.
So I can't speak for anyone else.
I can only speak for Katie and I.
We are two people, married couple, both gamers.
So you know, most of the games we play are going to hit the
table because we're always looking for it.
We have a lot of the same. We're open to playing anything,
right? So, so, but 250 games seems to
be kind of our Max. There's a little leeway.
We might go 255, you know, whatever.
But but we're not afraid to sell a game.
We're not afraid to give a game away.
Yeah. So yeah, there we are.
There we are. There we are.
So yeah. I'm going to go investigate
expansions. So we're going to get.
Burning, that's my commitment, is burning.
Suns played within this quarter. So before UKG, how about that?
OK. You could do that.
It's four weeks. You could do that.
That's a month. You can do that.
I thank you for the confidence. I know you could do that because
I know your gaming group. I met them.
Gaming group we need to make this.
Happen There it is. I'll send, I'll send the rules,
video rounds. So we're going to get rid of
shelf of Shame, we're going to get it out of our vocabularies,
and we're going to call your board game backlog.
By the way, that's the title. Bonanza with the with the AR.
Yeah, Game Backlog Bonanza. No, it's rubbish.
Ball. Game ball.
Game backlog. Board Game Backlog, by the way,
that's the title of this episode.
I've just noted that down. Episode 78 Board Game Game.
Backlog I've got, I've got quite a backlog as well, yeah.
But you get through it. We all will.
And then it, you know, push comes to shove, have me over to
your house, put me out for the weekend.
That's all we will play as your backlog.
Maybe that should. Maybe that's a con.
Maybe there was a convention where you could only play games
that you haven't played, As in not turn up and play games
you've not played before, but play games that you you bring
your shelf of shame your you bring your ball game backlog top
three. Backlog Con every day.
Everyone works together to clear the backlog.
And everyone only brings one game, because I think the
problem too is you all get together and you bring like 12
of your games and then you don't play any of them because.
Yeah, we've we've played the same games, right?
Time I get it. Backlog.
Or game backlog. Well, anyone who's listening,
please put a chat. I think I might do.
I think I'll do a poll, actually, and maybe I'll put the
options and people can vote for their favorite, what they call
it. OK, write down the seven or six
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