Happy 2024!

Happy New Year! 🥳🎉

I hope you enjoyed the holidays and had a great start into 2024! ☺ ️ Are you doing New Year's resolutions? I personally don’t really care for them outside of the board gaming world, but since it’s a very nice thing to look back on the stats of the last year, I always set some “challenges” in the app where I track our plays and games. 😁 Well, I don’t consider them “New Year's resolutions” because playing should be fun and not another “chore” or score to achieve.

In 2023 a lot was going on, including moving to a new house which definitely ate up a lot of our time (well not the move itself, but you know, shaping it more and more to what we imagine as a home), thus it felt like we didn’t have the time to play that much.
Actually, that wasn’t true at all. We almost played as many games as in 2022 😶 so I’ll have to find another excuse 😜

Anyway… the goals we set last year were:
… to play at least 365 times ✅
… to play at least 100 new games ✅ (we actually overshot this by playing 167 new-to-us games from 208 total)
… an alphabet challenge ❌ (we were short on a game with Q and X - good recommendations are welcome)
… to (very vaguely) decrease the Pile of Shame ❌ (which we utterly failed 😂)

So as I always do, I set up the new challenges today, which are very similar to the ones above, except that this time there is a specific challenge for playing our (as of today) unplayed games.
👉I also added a goal to replay at least one of our “old” favorites each week, because the only “remorse” I have regarding last year is that between all those new and shiny games some really good games didn’t make it to the table. This has to change!