1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,840 Welcome to Meeple to Meeple uniting players around the 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,600 world, a 30 minute exploration of TJ and Gareth's four-game 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,480 experiences from across both sides of the Atlantic. 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,720 Each episode, they share their thoughts and opinions on the 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,280 World of War games, including their favorite themes, games, 6 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:20,200 hot topics, and much, much more. Hey guys, and welcome to Episode 7 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,280 78. We're going to talk about 8 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:32,720 unplayed games or your shelf of shame, as always. 9 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,000 I'm PJ. And I'm Gareth. 10 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:37,320 And we have. Some opportunities. 11 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,920 Or things we are or. Whatever we're going to talk 12 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,000 about, right? We are here, we are back, we are 13 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,320 together and it's great. Good to see you as always. 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:51,480 Hi. So yeah, we were talking about, 15 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,600 you know, just what what? What are we going to talk about 16 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,760 this week, right? We're going to talk about the 17 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:03,920 many piles of games that I have on my shelf or most often on the 18 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:08,480 floor, and where you excel of not having any, which is those 19 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:10,640 games that have been not been played. 20 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,880 You know, that's why this conversation, this topic was 21 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:18,160 compelling because you and I tackle it very differently. 22 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,120 But I thought, I thought we would talk about not just what 23 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,920 are what, how many unplayed games you have and why, but I 24 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,000 thought about extrapolating and talking about strategies for 25 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,920 getting rid of your unplayed, not getting rid of playing your 26 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,120 unplayed games. Right. 27 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:35,600 Yeah. Yeah. 28 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,760 Things that, you know, our listeners can be like, oh, I 29 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:42,440 should start doing that. I mean, the obvious one is 30 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:44,240 invite me to your house for a week, right? 31 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:45,920 I mean that's. I still don't think it'd help 32 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,480 based on when I go through some of the things that are unplayed, 33 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,280 yeah, and and how long they've been unplayed for. 34 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,280 You know, it's kind of it's true because I visited you and we 35 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:56,720 didn't play anything you didn't play. 36 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:57,520 There we go. You see? 37 00:01:57,720 --> 00:01:58,240 Yeah. Failed. 38 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,520 Yeah, so I do. Think it requires some dedicated 39 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:09,919 focus, like there's a set of games, the Facade games that has 40 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,080 been a joke, an ongoing joke between me and Nick Ball Game 41 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,640 Review UK for about 3 years because they've been on my shelf 42 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:17,840 a long time and I think we've now and nearly played all of 43 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:19,800 them. Only because every time I go 44 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,760 visit I put them in the bag and we've now managed to do it to do 45 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:33,120 3 which as I love stats Tortuga 1667 which I played with Nick 46 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:43,240 two weeks ago was on myself of shame for 2627 days, which if I 47 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,840 just grab my calculator is 7.1 years. 48 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,760 That's a long time. I've got worse, which will come 49 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:54,480 later. So OK. 50 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:57,080 Anyone can beat that. Put that in the comments. 51 00:02:57,640 --> 00:02:59,320 We're we're currently at 7 years. 52 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,800 Again, that sat for myself. Seven years? 53 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,440 Wow. So man, there's a lot of ways to 54 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,920 start this conversation. Where do you want to go? 55 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,840 I know. Well, I guess this, well, I 56 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:11,440 guess people call it chef of shame. 57 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,440 You've done some research I did in your kind of analytical 58 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:16,160 minds. Yep. 59 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:19,160 Do you want to share kind of what you found that we can make 60 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:20,560 some others up as we go? Sure. 61 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:24,280 So I reached out to some folks on Instagram, some friends of 62 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,920 mine here in the Springfield area, and I was like, OK, 63 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,920 shellfish shame. All right, what do you call? 64 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,960 And. And I made sure to ask the 65 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,960 question as diplomatically as possible. 66 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,520 What do you call your shelf of unplayed games? 67 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,080 Right. On it. 68 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,800 I got six different answers, right. 69 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,240 And there's no judgement on any of these answers. 70 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,720 This is just what people choose to call their own, their own 71 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:55,280 show. Because as you know, this is 72 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,200 rather, this can be decisive. Divisive, right? 73 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,840 Some people get emotional about it, so the obvious one will get 74 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,800 it out of the way quickly. Your shelf of shame, right? 75 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,120 Yeah. You know, yes, I understand the 76 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,320 implications that you're somehow shaming yourself for not playing 77 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,080 a game. I I get that. 78 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:17,000 And that's the origins. I use it for the alliteration, 79 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:22,720 it's just easy to say, right? However, the next one works just 80 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,640 as well and I think I may adopt it. 81 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,600 I think it's a good one. And that is your shelf of 82 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,320 shrink. Oh yeah, see Nick preference, 83 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:32,760 that's two call outs. There we go. 84 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,240 He calls it that and I think that's a lovely name, but it has 85 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,960 got some bits we'll talk about in a minute that I find 86 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,640 challenging. So the idea is that the game is 87 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,480 still wrapped in shrink wrap. So. 88 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:44,520 I can't cope with that it. Should shove a shrink, right? 89 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:45,880 You're right though. Open the box. 90 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,480 No, that's the problem is you open the box, open. 91 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:50,320 The box I want to see the shiny bits. 92 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,880 And that's something we'll talk about too, in a minute. 93 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,840 Now, recently, we're seeing a lot more people call it their 94 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:01,840 shelf of opportunity because it's a future, future 95 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:03,920 opportunity to play the game. I get that. 96 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,000 I like it. I understand. 97 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:11,840 Trying to get away from the shame emotion, but OK, I like 98 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:13,160 that. Now here's one. 99 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,000 I thought this one was OK. It's a little on the nose, but 100 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,520 sure shelf of unplayed purchases. 101 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,320 And I'm like, that's what you. I love it. 102 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:25,760 I'm like, is that really what you call it? 103 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,480 Yes. I'm like, talk about it. 104 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:30,520 Yeah. This is where my unplayed 105 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,480 purchases currently are shelved. I'm like, OK, all right, very 106 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,880 good. It's not very original, but you 107 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:37,960 know what? There it is. 108 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,680 The next one I really like. It was an interesting 109 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:48,920 exploration, explanation, exploration explanation, shelf 110 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,360 of overflow. Shelf of overflow. 111 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:58,160 Overflow. Yeah, I mean, some people do 112 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,560 limit themselves. Like, I'm only ever having 100 113 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,760 ball games or I'm only having games where I have physically 114 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,240 put them on the shelf. Yes, and if you go over you've 115 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:09,440 got overflow. Right. 116 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:11,240 Nice. Yeah, I thought it was 117 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,320 interesting. Now the last one, Well, I guess 118 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,000 it's not the last one because I just came up with one on my own 119 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:20,040 and I'm going to share that one Last someone said they call it 120 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:25,320 their shelf of culling. See. 121 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,920 Yeah, see I I get. That's probably too much the 122 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,800 overflow that if if I haven't played it, do I get rid of it? 123 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,040 Most of the time there is. Well, I'll come to come to Why 124 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,440 do these shelves grow? We're covered in a minute, but 125 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,480 time, but OK. Right. 126 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,280 So that's, that's another one. It's like, OK, so these are 127 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:47,160 games you've not played, that you're planning on selling 128 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,480 because you haven't played them in a long time and that that's 129 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,680 why they call it that. I'm like, OK, I accept that as a 130 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:58,440 plausible explanation Now. The last one is the one I just 131 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:00,200 came up with while we were talking. 132 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,640 So this is never before revealed. 133 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,400 OK, so it's I'm taking a term from my work. 134 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:15,240 How about this? Your shelf of backlog. 135 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,160 Backlog. Yeah, I like it. 136 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:25,360 So because because I'm an archivist, records that have not 137 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,440 yet been processed in our collection, it's the, it's the 138 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:31,640 backlog, it's you have all this work that you have to do, but 139 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,120 it's, it's your backlog and sounds like your shelf of 140 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:40,080 backlog there we go. So yeah. 141 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:45,760 I've I've just asked ChatGPT to come up with 10 literally while 142 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,040 I've been chatting. Do you do you want to hear the 143 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:53,800 the query was provide me a few names for for for names for ball 144 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,320 games that I have too many of. An example would be shelf of 145 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:03,240 Shame, Pile of potential. That's a shame, no? 146 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:07,480 I love the alliteration. Though unplayed, Treasure Troves 147 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:11,760 board game backlog bonanza. Oh can. 148 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:15,120 You set in a trend all like this one. 149 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:20,760 The shelf of unfinished stories. Game graveyard. 150 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:26,960 Oh. Box Adventures awaiting ice, 151 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:33,200 Dungeon of neglect, Unexplored territory Table. 152 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:36,880 OK. Oh, the library of lost plays. 153 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,600 Anyway, there's a bit of AI generated content for us. 154 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:51,960 So Gareth, tell us what is in your library of lost plays. 155 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:58,840 So if anyone hasn't ever checked out, there's there's a website 156 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:04,560 called Geek Group dot App APP which you connect to Ball Game 157 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:08,680 Geek and it is a treasure trove of statistics. 158 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:12,400 Like, it's brilliant and it has a whole section for a shelf of 159 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:13,960 shame. You can even rename the section 160 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:15,360 depending on what you want to call it. 161 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,920 So you can now call it your library of lost. 162 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,760 I know you can have your opportunity or shame, but you 163 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,600 know, but it doesn't allow you to have a preference. 164 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,960 So it tells me there's 134 games on myself. 165 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,400 A shame, which I then went, oh, that's more than I thought. 166 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,880 But I looked and it's because I've logged loads of games, 167 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:38,760 freebies, samples. I've removed about 50, so 168 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,960 there's about 80 games on my shelf of shame. 169 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,480 Opportunity, shrink. That's that. 170 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:46,360 That's a lot. How many is on yours? 171 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:56,680 And we're going to talk about this later 0. 0. 172 00:09:57,960 --> 00:09:58,880 Correct. Good. 173 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:00,160 Yeah, I feel. Shame. 174 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:04,680 I just feel shame. No, see the the the lowest my 175 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:07,720 selfish shame has ever been was October 2021. 176 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,680 Now COVID did a lot for unplayed game. 177 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:14,600 For shame. Yes, absolutely. 178 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:21,640 It was down at 89, so that that's the top level stats. 179 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:26,120 So let me ask a question. Yeah, you removed 50, you said 180 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:30,160 134. You removed 50 and went down at 181 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:31,640 84. Yeah. 182 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,840 Could you say a little more about those 50 games? 183 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:40,160 Why? Why were they removed and what 184 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:44,520 criteria did you use to remove them from consideration? 185 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,720 Either. They're either already in the 186 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:52,200 the pile of games to sell, OK, because I invested and they 187 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,200 haven't hit the table, so they have been, they have been cold 188 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,760 or overflowed or whatever we called it earlier, OK? 189 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:03,240 And then there's for example, there's a pack of these little 190 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:07,160 mini car games where you get 10 games in the pack. 191 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,520 OK. And I've played like two of 192 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:10,400 them. The rest I wouldn't be 193 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,160 interested in all eight as selected as being unplayed. 194 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,240 But these are like promos or something that. 195 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,400 Yeah, or like kids games we've had when there's like there's 196 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:24,040 little packs of games that get extra bits in it, so they're 197 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:27,680 all, you know, or there's been promos, or there's been games 198 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:32,400 I've been given either for free or for review that I've played 199 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,040 as a Psalm. I'd like a test, you know, for 200 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:36,800 like Kickstarters, but I've logged the game in my 201 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:38,320 collection. But actually it's not complete. 202 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:40,920 It's not a it's not a finished finished copy. 203 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,480 So I could already do culling, my actual games collection app. 204 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:50,720 OK, I was looking at the most recent games that drop off that 205 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:52,960 list and there's some interesting bits. 206 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,200 So the games have been added to that list and then have dropped 207 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,520 off. So the most recent game was 208 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:03,040 Wingspan. Asia obviously came with the, I 209 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:09,400 think the Wingspan box that was only played 21st of April, so a 210 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:13,240 week a week ago today. OK, that sat on the shelf for 211 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,600 527 days. OK. 212 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,720 So about a year and a half. Which the reason for that was 213 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:23,560 because it ended up being inside the big wingspan, wingspan box, 214 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:26,920 which then ended up coming upstairs to the. 215 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:30,320 So all of the big box games that have become excessive come 216 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:31,920 upstairs into the office. So. 217 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:34,880 And he's out of sight. This might be one of the 218 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,120 problems. So you and I, you and I have 219 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,720 both implemented this same strategy, right? 220 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,120 Is our collections in our basement. 221 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:47,480 However, the large box games like Wingspan in the nesting 222 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:52,040 box, Yeah, I think the problem is that they're in your office, 223 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:52,800 correct? Yeah. 224 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:57,720 So they are out of sight, whereas ours are in our living 225 00:12:57,720 --> 00:12:59,880 room so. I've tried. 226 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:01,480 I've. I've had this no argument. 227 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:03,400 That's the wrong words. I've had the discussion with my 228 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,920 wife OK and that wasn't approved. 229 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:06,920 OK. OK. 230 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:08,800 That's fair. Well, I've tried the why. 231 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,560 We could put them downstairs and we could see them all the time 232 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:16,480 in the lounge. Right, so we have a 2 by 4 233 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:21,080 Calacs grid in the in the living room. 234 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:23,600 Yeah, yeah. And they're filled with also 235 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:28,480 Frost Haven, Gloom Haven the the nesting box for Wingspan, the 236 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:34,760 large western legends box Isafarian Guard, which is so big 237 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:38,200 it doesn't actually fit in an actual cube. 238 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,760 It's a couple of those, so. It sits up on the top on top, 239 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:43,960 yeah. So you know, we have a few 240 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:51,240 others like that. So if we want to, if we have 241 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,160 more than four people over, because our game table in our 242 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,080 basement only it accommodates 4 comfortably. 243 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,240 So if we're going to have five people over, we're going to play 244 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:05,240 upstairs, we'll grab those. So yeah, I think that's that's a 245 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:10,680 contributing factor to a game being in your shrink shame 246 00:14:10,680 --> 00:14:14,920 opportunity backlog. Yeah, come up with a funky name. 247 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:16,600 Yeah. The other four games is so 248 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:20,840 Harrow County which I which was in the hit the table within 13 249 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,400 days so it. Arrived That game arrived when 250 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,240 you picked us up from the train station. 251 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,000 A day and it hit the table. A week and a half later and we 252 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,200 played it again today and I love it. 253 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,440 Tortuga. I've mentioned Stone Spine 254 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:40,280 Architects 16 Days and then the the last one of the games of the 255 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:46,040 Shame Pile was Cathedral of Onio, which was 93 days and then 256 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,360 it went straight on the sail pole because I didn't enjoy it. 257 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,160 Oh, you didn't? No. 258 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,760 So Katie's one of her favorite games is or Leo. 259 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:55,640 Oh, you're same. Same. 260 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,440 But Cathedral of El Leon? It's two family. 261 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:01,560 Even. Carrie said to me, this is a 262 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:02,400 family game. Why? 263 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,760 Because I like or Leon. It sounded fun, but it if you 264 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:09,960 had if you had kids or or probably newer gamers will find 265 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:11,720 it OK. So why didn't you bring it up 266 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:13,880 last week when we talked about family games? 267 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:16,680 Because it's in the pile to be sold. 268 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,080 I love it. I love it. 269 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:27,720 So how about the game in your backlog? 270 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,800 Yeah. That's been there the longest. 271 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,560 OK so I just need to get account clear. 272 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:43,080 OK. So it's the longest game is 3731 273 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,880 days, which is, let's be honest, over 10 / 10 years without. 274 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:49,040 Being on the camera. Wow. 275 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:54,120 So it's a game called Burning Suns which I only spoke about to 276 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:55,960 the gaming group in Southampton a week ago. 277 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:02,920 OK it was a Kickstarter that took a long time to arrive 278 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,200 because the designer, who I now unfortunately forget his name, 279 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:12,480 first time designer Kickstarter that he was also in the army and 280 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:18,880 would end up being called off to do work and we'll just vanish. 281 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:24,080 And he had a few challenges with the production. 282 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:27,520 That all it's it's basically a mixture of eclipse, twilight, 283 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,400 struggle kind of space. OK. 284 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:35,280 Beautiful components are all. It's a beautiful game and I 285 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,960 think when I invested in it I thought we get get it to the 286 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,960 table and we just haven't. However, with the larger gaming 287 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:46,360 group, I believe we can. I do believe we can get this 288 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:51,760 done. Looking at the rest of the 289 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:56,840 games, there's Clinic, Small City and Tramways are in the top 290 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,960 five, and they're all by the same designer. 291 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:09,880 Oh, OK. Who, which is Al Alban viad now 292 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,920 Clinic got a reskin. It got republished. 293 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:15,720 They're all heavy weight games now. 294 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,480 I have played Clinic, clinic, Clinic Solo, but I haven't 295 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,720 logged it because I haven't played it with with anyone else. 296 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,880 But they're all heavy, complex games and interestingly, those 297 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,160 two are upstairs next to me right now. 298 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:32,040 And of course they are. So maybe that might be the 299 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:35,640 problem, but they are heavy like 4.4 you know, super top end 300 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:40,920 complexity. Not very pretty, but they are 301 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,640 good designs. Other games are just games that 302 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,240 for some reason March of the Ants I refuse to get rid of. 303 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:53,400 2864 days where you're running an Ant colony just haven't got. 304 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,720 I've learnt it and a lot of these games I have learnt 305 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,120 somehow just never got, never got to the table. 306 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,520 So it begs the question. It begs the. 307 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:05,480 Question. It says this boa's not been 308 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:07,160 played. That means I've missed actually 309 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,160 logging the game. Because I've played that, yeah, 310 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,480 there's a data error. These are these aren't 311 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:14,640 acceptable. Acceptable. 312 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,000 So it begs the question, before we move forward, So what? 313 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,000 What is an Ant? What's an Ant farm? 314 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:22,960 March of the Ants. March of the ants, OK. 315 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,800 March of the Ants. You said specifically about this 316 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:27,760 game, you refuse to get rid of it. 317 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:32,160 It's seven or eight years on your list, but. 318 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:34,880 Every time I think about I go. I haven't played that game and 319 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:36,880 every time I learn the rules and think, oh this game's really 320 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:42,880 good, but somehow I I don't know how so So I was thinking a 321 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:44,480 minute ago I wrote this down a bit next to me. 322 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:50,000 What I used to do would stick small post it, sticky post it 323 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,680 notes sure on to the games. So whenever I looked at when we 324 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,280 said they watch you play tonight, I'd end up sticking 325 00:18:58,200 --> 00:18:59,760 posting you know look at the post notes again. 326 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,320 I haven't played these, but then you think so. 327 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,320 Everyone learn new game. OK. 328 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,880 And whether through lockdown, whether we have more time to 329 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:12,760 learn and then play. But I need to, we need to 330 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:14,440 schedule it. I need to literally say right 331 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,200 this month we're going to tackle Burning Suns or we're going to 332 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:22,160 tackle March of the Ants, everyone to watch, watch the 333 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,600 video and play it. But what's even worse, we'll 334 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:30,400 come back to this a minute, but I put all of my expansions 335 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,960 inside the main box. I try to if I can. 336 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,800 Yes, then I forget that I've had expansions. 337 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:42,120 OK. How the hell do I track my shelf 338 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:46,400 of unplayed expansions? Because I for me that. 339 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:49,520 Must be. For me, I don't. 340 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,360 That's not normally, that's not a consideration. 341 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:55,960 But I've definitely got expansions I've bought, I've put 342 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,840 them into the main box and we've not played, I've never played 343 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:00,880 expansions. OK, you know what, that's fair. 344 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,320 So Taverns of TIFF Tiffenthal. Right. 345 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:04,760 Yeah, yeah. Yeah. 346 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,520 OK. So like it comes with all the 347 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,360 different that's modules that's not expansion. 348 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:12,200 But even. But yeah, but you buy modules, 349 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,680 didn't you? Yes, and we haven't. 350 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,720 I put them, we haven't. We haven't played them all yet. 351 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,600 So only on that's the plague expansion that came out. 352 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,040 Which we don't have. Is which I've purchased and it's 353 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:25,840 in the box. So you haven't played it yet? 354 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,440 Because I've because you forget I need, I need to make. 355 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,360 So my question to you would be, my question to you is if you 356 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:37,680 were to, if you were to go ahead and play orally on tonight, you 357 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,720 open up the box, the play expansion's in there. 358 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,600 Obviously we all do this. You make the decision to include 359 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:48,120 the play expansion or not. I reckon we wouldn't because we 360 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:50,360 because we'd go there oh let's remind ourselves of the base 361 00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:54,080 rules to make sure that we've got well maybe we would I think 362 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:57,480 the base rules we know really well anyway but but that comes 363 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:03,640 back to should you follow the shelf of shrink and that box 364 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,240 remains. So shrink. 365 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,160 But then I go. I'll get. 366 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,160 I've got to keep spaces limited, so I pour it in the box and go. 367 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:14,920 No one knows because it's Spanish. 368 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:16,480 There's no more. Yeah, box. 369 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,920 But I forget. Yeah, you know, it's interesting 370 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,160 because, you know, so I'm looking at Tang Garden right 371 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,760 now, right? That's got more content coming, 372 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:25,840 isn't? It yes, it does. 373 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,320 But it also has a big box, so you know where it's going. 374 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:36,640 It's going upstairs. There's, but I'm thinking about, 375 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,520 I'm listening to you talk about expansions. 376 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:42,160 And then I was thinking, oh, but designers are starting to create 377 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,880 these big boxes to fill everything in. 378 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,200 So it's in one box. And one of the things I love 379 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:55,720 about that is I can put the boxes on my wall as art. 380 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,360 So. Oh yeah, right. 381 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:01,320 Like, like these are all the struggles. 382 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,520 Like we all, we all experience and it's like, what do you do? 383 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,480 Because that is, I think, I think we've talked about before. 384 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,720 But when I first started gaming, let's say 12 years ago, 385 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,640 properly, all the boxes were generally either the rectangular 386 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:19,440 size or the square size. Then Kickstarter came along and 387 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:25,680 then we've now got mega boxes and big boxes. 388 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,920 So yeah, Wingspan would have been one box and maybe it could 389 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,400 have got in the expansions. And I do. 390 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:37,160 I do tuck expansion boxes behind the back of a Calyx because 391 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:38,800 there's always a bit of depth space. 392 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:43,360 Oh, sure. But yeah, the game collection 393 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:46,120 space is actually now filled with bigger boxes. 394 00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:48,840 So like, like we've done we've we've put them in their own 395 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:50,680 zone, which we're both lucky to do. 396 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:55,040 Yeah, yeah, I'm under the see that I bought Game Stats, The 397 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:58,480 app you can obviously track. It's got, it's got sections 398 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,120 where you can create challenges like yourself or shooting 399 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:03,120 yourself for shame. But I've never actually thought 400 00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:05,600 to look about expansions. I suspect it does. 401 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,680 Yeah. That might be really bad. 402 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,920 Or really good. I mean, it just depends on how 403 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,120 you how you view your game collection, right? 404 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:17,960 I'll have to go through I think. I think it's quite an 405 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,760 interesting one. I like the idea of of post its 406 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,400 let's do that again I I do remind me that I haven't played 407 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:29,760 them it just it'll bring it'll bring it to to the minds of. 408 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,000 Right. So so should we talk about 409 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:40,760 strategies for getting your unplayed games played or keeping 410 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:45,800 your board game backlog? Because I I want to own that, 411 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:47,520 and I think we should all call it that. 412 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,760 I think because it's still alliteration board game backlog. 413 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,400 It's 2 words, not three, and it's accurate. 414 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,760 So should we talk about strategies for getting your 415 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:02,120 unplayed games played and reducing your backlog, your 416 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:05,440 board game backlog to as close to 0 as possible? 417 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,520 Should we talk about that? Yeah, I mean. 418 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:15,560 Because I I have strategies that I think would help people like 419 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,200 we said. Stop, stop buying. 420 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:21,160 What would be maybe a strategy. Yes, I'm far, I'm far better. 421 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,960 Yeah, I mean Kickstart, I think. I think most people I talk to 422 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:28,120 now have learnt the Kickstarter. You know, you don't have to have 423 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:32,600 the FOMO and let things. Just let things go. 424 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,960 I will say this travel international. 425 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:42,840 Having had the experience of visiting England, I want to 426 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:46,640 travel more, so say goodbye to Kickstarter. 427 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:47,720 OK. Yeah. 428 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:52,120 So you are investing, reinvesting the funds to a 429 00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:54,800 different project, right? Yeah. 430 00:24:55,120 --> 00:25:00,280 I mean. I think, I think so. 431 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:05,560 Carrie isn't a massive fan of learning new games, whereas I I 432 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,000 love learning new games. I just get a kick out of getting 433 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,960 a gamer table and learning it and that's half the battle on 434 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,440 some of these games. I have learnt and gone oh this 435 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,720 is brilliant And then I've gone to teach it and it's like, oh I 436 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:20,880 don't want to learn another game. 437 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:24,160 So then you get out only off and we play a game that everyone 438 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,800 knows then that that game you've forgotten. 439 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,360 You know unless you've unless you apply the game to to memory 440 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,360 or at least you have a have a go but you're we're talking about 441 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,360 which went the galleries earlier before you started recording 442 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,760 where you hadn't played it for a couple for a couple of for a 443 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,560 while and it took you a couple of hours. 444 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,440 The next time you played it it was an hour yeah. 445 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,920 But I think that's that's that's sometimes a problem and then 446 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:53,120 another game arrives and so you're like well which one to 447 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:56,840 get to table But I do find I do find the the ball game stats app 448 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,680 with the challenges the best one because it's I go through I 449 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,120 think this this is like 82 currently and then I just say to 450 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:09,320 Carrie what do you fancy playing And then we we pick one right. 451 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,120 So yeah. So not buying is a good idea. 452 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:17,480 I mean, OK, yes, but if people stop buying board games, then 453 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,680 there's no point in listening to our podcast anymore, because 454 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,240 they're not buying games, therefore they're not. 455 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,680 Well, I mean, they could be playing games. 456 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,520 But putting that aside, I'm not going to suggest you do whatever 457 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:29,840 you want with your money. I'm not. 458 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,760 I'm not here to tell you how do you buy? 459 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,480 But OK, you're going to buy games. 460 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,760 Your behaviour's not going to change, but you want to get that 461 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:44,000 backlog to 0. Here's a couple of things that 462 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:50,480 Katie and I do to maintain a 0 backlog, right? 463 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:56,480 Oh, and to be fair, the longest we've had a game in our backlog 464 00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:03,280 in the past two years has been 1212 days. 12 days. 12 days, so 465 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:07,440 we try to maintain a backlog of 0. 466 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,200 And if you, let's say game came in today and you played it let's 467 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:18,880 say within 12 days, how quickly does that game come back to the 468 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,320 table? So is there, are you always 469 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,600 trying to keep up on the unplay, on the update part, but actually 470 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,840 the games? Oh yeah, you're not playing 471 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,880 other games. So the first thing we do is we 472 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:35,120 open a game and play it. I mean, I know that sounds 473 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:39,880 simple and silly, but you don't have a backlog. 474 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,840 If you purchase a game and you play it, it is no longer in your 475 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:49,000 unplayed backlog. Now that resets for us. 476 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,560 It resets. Oh yeah, because you have. 477 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,400 That's a great strategy at the. Beginning at the beginning of 478 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:59,400 the, at the beginning of the New Year, so on January 1, our 479 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:04,640 backlog is, well, I mean the whole idea of the backlog is 480 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,480 these are games that you've never played, right? 481 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:15,880 But we try to play every single game in our collection a minimum 482 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:21,680 one time each calendar year. Minimum one time, yeah. 483 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:28,600 And, and to be fair, sometimes we play a game just to play it 484 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,880 and tick it off the list. Yeah, yeah. 485 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,760 You know, and so we've been doing this for this is our third 486 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:43,920 year and we're usually between 95 and 97% of our collection is 487 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:52,320 played So well, PJ, what about that 3% unplayed? 488 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,200 Yeah. So that's when we evaluate 489 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,680 whether or not the first question is why hasn't it hit 490 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,360 our table? And we do this every year, and 491 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,880 this is kind of like a, a holiday tradition, right? 492 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,840 On New Year's Eve, before we go out and do whatever or get 493 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,320 together with the family or something, we kind of look at 494 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,360 our, we look at our statistics and we're like, OK, 'cause we 495 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:19,680 still have time, we could play on Earth and get it off our 496 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,080 list. Well, why haven't we played it 497 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:22,960 right? Yeah. 498 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:26,080 And. And so there, there are 499 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,880 mitigating circumstances sometimes, right? 500 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:36,240 Campaign games we put off to the side because you may not hit the 501 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,640 table this year, but it might next year. 502 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:40,360 Yeah. Yeah. 503 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:45,960 Because campaign games take more investment in time, right. 504 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:52,040 So like Gloom Haven, right. We've haven't played Bloom Haven 505 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,240 in two years. Yeah, but we played Gloomhaven 506 00:29:55,240 --> 00:30:00,160 through twice, so it's like, you know, we're still debating on 507 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:05,400 what to do with it. Here's another one, although 508 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,440 this requires more skill than many people have, I certainly 509 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:13,360 don't is If you're not going to play a game anymore and you 510 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:18,000 don't feel like selling it, you can use the components of the 511 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:23,000 game to make crafts to decorate your house. 512 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,560 I mean. Yeah, I think, you know, legacy 513 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,200 games are great. You can't play them. 514 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,000 Ever. Again, legacy games. 515 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:34,080 I mean, any prototypes I get that the designers don't want 516 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,280 back, I'll do. I'll breakdown your components. 517 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,360 What I've got now is like it's massive, zippy, but a zip bag 518 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:47,440 full of wooden things and I need to get a jar like a jar to put 519 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:48,440 them all in. And make a glass. 520 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:50,320 Yeah, like a glass. Jar. 521 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,840 So here's what you do, because here's what you got. 522 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,480 Like a box frame or something. We do. 523 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,520 We've got some shadow boxes and various. 524 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:57,160 That's it. Yeah. 525 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:58,640 Yeah. So you know what you do is you 526 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,280 ship. Ship it over. 527 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:05,240 Box your components over. Send them to me and Katie and I 528 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,880 will put something. Tell us what you want and we'll 529 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,440 put it together. And there be that's our 530 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,560 Christmas gift, right. You just send us the components. 531 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,120 Sounds like that sounds like not great use of carbon mileage. 532 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,680 Well, I know, but it's yeah, I know. 533 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,600 It's a good idea. Yeah. 534 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,800 Yeah, I could definitely do something because I've got bags 535 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,400 of it in the cupboard under the stairs where there's loads of 536 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,160 things unplayed. I just, I was just looking at my 537 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,320 other challenges and one one thing that we're trying to do is 538 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,120 play all our games at least five times. 539 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,920 Wow, but you have a large collection. 540 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,680 Though 55% of the way there, which was quite pretty fine, 541 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:42,880 yeah. And in there, in there is the 542 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,960 games that haven't, haven't been sold. 543 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:51,360 So, OK, yeah. So, so our stat for the year is 544 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:56,160 we're at 47.2% of our entire collection played once. 545 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,760 That is good going. We're not even. 546 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,120 We're not even in May yet, which is the 5th month. 547 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:06,240 So we will clearly be beyond 50% of our collection before the 548 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:11,280 year is 50% up. So and we just picked up new 549 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:16,920 games, I know that. So last year I did a live and 550 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,840 posted on Instagram. I didn't do it this year we had 551 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:26,000 our used game sale at Titan. Oh yeah, last weekend and so, 552 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:31,000 well, first of all, we didn't. We made out like bandits, like 553 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,280 we got a lot of store credit. We sold almost everything. 554 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:35,920 Did you? We did, yeah. 555 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,360 We had 20 games and we sold 18, so that's a pretty good game and 556 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:43,400 we did really well. We picked up a used copy of 557 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,560 First in Flight, which is fantastic. 558 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,120 It's already hit the table three times. 559 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,360 So you see there is we We definitely pick up a game and 560 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,120 play it. I've been wanting to tell you 561 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,280 this, it's not for this discussion, but I'll tell you 562 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,880 right now on air. Anyway, we picked up Hamlet the 563 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,760 Deluxe, the Deluxe version. Oh man, that game is cool. 564 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,200 We've only played it once, but very cool. 565 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,080 And then just recently, we picked up a copy of Abduction, 566 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,920 which I knew Katie was going to be rubber duckies in space. 567 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,440 Oh yeah, yeah, Rubber ducky, that one. 568 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,920 Yeah, it was the abduction. Or abduction. 569 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,960 Yeah, we've already, it is great. 570 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,200 And we played it a couple of times and then we picked up 571 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,920 harmonies. I've just started seeing, I've 572 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,720 just started seeing people posting it on Instagram. 573 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,880 Yeah, it's. You get these little wooden 574 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,080 tiles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 575 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:40,480 I've seen it. It popped up in. 576 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,920 It's popped up in the shops this week. 577 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,640 I think I disappeared in all of the. 578 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:47,680 I don't know much about it. It looks it looked really 579 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,080 pretty. It's, it is, it is pretty, but 580 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,920 it's cool. It's a little strategic and 581 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,160 yeah, we enjoy that. So those were our acquisitions. 582 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:00,520 Yeah, it's rated. It's rated. 583 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,720 You see. Yeah, it's rated 2.08. 584 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,840 Yeah. So you see we have no, we have 585 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:09,320 no backlog. Every game has been played from 586 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:09,960 the beginning. I think. 587 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,120 I think a strategy has to be a focus list. 588 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,120 Yes. You just got to get. 589 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,719 But I'm really up for trying Burning Suns. 590 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,880 It's not that complicated. Well I feel I'm so vested in it 591 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,400 that I just. I've got I've got I've got to 592 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,080 play it. You've got to play such a kick 593 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:26,440 side. Right. 594 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,800 OK next time. Next time We discussed this 595 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,719 topic. Let me see what weight it is. 596 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,600 Remind myself 3.33. You see 80. 597 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,080 We always talk about games. We always looking for games. 598 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,800 Best with five, this is. Best With five, I mean, it's. 599 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,880 There you go, designed. For the group designed Emil 600 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,360 Larsson was a designer. Intense Scientific notes. 601 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:49,480 Also, that's the other challenge. 602 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:50,840 She's Carrie's not a massive space. 603 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,360 She doesn't like science well. She said well, she says that 604 00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:55,880 there are many exceptions to this rule. 605 00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,120 Tactical 4X Thematic action. Burning Suns is not a 606 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,680 traditional 4X game. It takes 4X actions and gives 607 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,760 you complete tactical control. Create an empire. 608 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:11,480 Galaxy's in motion, Your empire. Your strategy like the 609 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,800 Kickstarter, came with another pack of the same characters with 610 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,280 slightly different asymmetric roles. 611 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:20,640 So not only was there like 15 anyway, he tweaked them to have 612 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,160 30 with all their own unique as you remember that the the ships, 613 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:28,080 the ships are moulds and then the ship is in on top of the 614 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:29,520 ship. It's a little holder for a die. 615 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,840 So it might be a triangular for like AD Four or AD 6 or AD 8 and 616 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,800 that's kind of their hit points. Or might have been their power 617 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,840 ministers long time ago. It'll be brilliant. 618 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,440 I think they even sat on Little Sandy's. 619 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:50,240 Oh come on, that's awesome. And you have and you have a game 620 00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:53,280 group that fits the five player count. 621 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,680 And fits the space theme. And likes the space theme. 622 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:56,960 Yeah. So I right. 623 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,440 So do you think, I guess the last question, last question to 624 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:06,760 consider, is it just that there's too many games? 625 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,160 Yeah. I mean, is there just, is that 626 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,520 is that the reality? I I think there's a lot of the 627 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:16,000 games that are unplayed in my collection was from when I was 628 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,680 building the collection and was a little, a little bit looser on 629 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,120 what to invest in. Sure. 630 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:25,600 So most of the games are unplayed are from 5:00 or 6-7 631 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,320 years ago. Which is why there's. 789 Yeah, 632 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:34,880 Whereas a more modern game is more of a considered purchase 633 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,720 and probably I've become wiser in what I invest in. 634 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,240 I mean, that's a fairpoint and you could still get, you can 635 00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:46,120 still get burnt today, yeah, yeah, but it's not as often 636 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:48,920 anymore. You just have to be more 637 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,960 discerning in your purchases. Commit to playing your entire 638 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:54,760 collection a minimum of once a year. 639 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,120 It's a great show because somebody else was doing the 640 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,240 Alphabet challenge. Yep, that's another way he's 641 00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:04,680 tried to. But that's a problem. 642 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,680 That's a problem because if I have 5 games that start with the 643 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,560 letter D and I only play one of them, what about the others? 644 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:11,920 I got to play them too, you know. 645 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,400 Well, you could. You could do alphabet challenge 646 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,600 and pay your games your collection and probably keep two 647 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,840 challenges in one. I do think that I do think that 648 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,280 restricting the size of your collection is helpful. 649 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,240 And I seriously, seriously considered it recently. 650 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,720 Like having a coal. Really brutal coal. 651 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,160 So I can't speak for anyone else. 652 00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:36,000 I can only speak for Katie and I. 653 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:41,480 We are two people, married couple, both gamers. 654 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,440 So you know, most of the games we play are going to hit the 655 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,360 table because we're always looking for it. 656 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:50,080 We have a lot of the same. We're open to playing anything, 657 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,880 right? So, so, but 250 games seems to 658 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:59,520 be kind of our Max. There's a little leeway. 659 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,440 We might go 255, you know, whatever. 660 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:05,600 But but we're not afraid to sell a game. 661 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,400 We're not afraid to give a game away. 662 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:14,000 Yeah. So yeah, there we are. 663 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:15,920 There we are. There we are. 664 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,280 So yeah. I'm going to go investigate 665 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,200 expansions. So we're going to get. 666 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:20,920 Burning, that's my commitment, is burning. 667 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:28,400 Suns played within this quarter. So before UKG, how about that? 668 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:32,400 OK. You could do that. 669 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,160 It's four weeks. You could do that. 670 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:36,960 That's a month. You can do that. 671 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,960 I thank you for the confidence. I know you could do that because 672 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,440 I know your gaming group. I met them. 673 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,240 Gaming group we need to make this. 674 00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:47,040 Happen There it is. I'll send, I'll send the rules, 675 00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,280 video rounds. So we're going to get rid of 676 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,200 shelf of Shame, we're going to get it out of our vocabularies, 677 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,720 and we're going to call your board game backlog. 678 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,280 By the way, that's the title. Bonanza with the with the AR. 679 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,720 Yeah, Game Backlog Bonanza. No, it's rubbish. 680 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:01,880 Ball. Game ball. 681 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,760 Game backlog. Board Game Backlog, by the way, 682 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,280 that's the title of this episode. 683 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:11,240 I've just noted that down. Episode 78 Board Game Game. 684 00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:16,160 Backlog I've got, I've got quite a backlog as well, yeah. 685 00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:18,880 But you get through it. We all will. 686 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,000 And then it, you know, push comes to shove, have me over to 687 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,920 your house, put me out for the weekend. 688 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,360 That's all we will play as your backlog. 689 00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:29,880 Maybe that should. Maybe that's a con. 690 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,200 Maybe there was a convention where you could only play games 691 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,040 that you haven't played, As in not turn up and play games 692 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:43,080 you've not played before, but play games that you you bring 693 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,600 your shelf of shame your you bring your ball game backlog top 694 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,920 three. Backlog Con every day. 695 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,280 Everyone works together to clear the backlog. 696 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,680 And everyone only brings one game, because I think the 697 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,440 problem too is you all get together and you bring like 12 698 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,200 of your games and then you don't play any of them because. 699 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,280 Yeah, we've we've played the same games, right? 700 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,560 Time I get it. Backlog. 701 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,440 Or game backlog. Well, anyone who's listening, 702 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,400 please put a chat. I think I might do. 703 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,720 I think I'll do a poll, actually, and maybe I'll put the 704 00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:17,600 options and people can vote for their favorite, what they call 705 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,000 it. OK, write down the seven or six 706 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:20,880 you. You said the beginning. 707 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:25,840 See where we go. Don't forget to subscribe. 708 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,160 And like like the. Post all the other things you do 709 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,120 if you don't already. Thank you for listening. 710 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,080 Yeah, PJ cracking topic this week. 711 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,680 Yeah, maybe we should talk about our most played games. 712 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,040 Let's do that next week. I love it. 713 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:45,280 Yeah, let's do that. Thanks everyone for listening. 714 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:49,720 See you soon. 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