My December Gaming

December ended up being my big month for learning games. That was entirely because of Dicember. I decided to challenge myself by learning fifteen new dice games.

I learned:

Battle Card - Moro River 

Xmas Sweaters

Road to 300

Pentaquest 

Koala Rescue Club 

Inverted Dice

Roll to the Top

Diceathalon 

Diceduko

Orchard Recipes

Paleontologists 

Vault

Jose Garcia Saves the Alhambra 

Sketchy Ski Lifts

Forage

Tiny Maze Things

Mind you, a couple of those require asterisks. The Moro map of Battle Card can easily be viewed as part of Battle Card as one game and Orchard Recipes is an expansion. But I also had to balance learning games with, you know, actually life stuff so I’m okay with a couple asterisks.

I was also concerned that I would get burned out on learning games, that I wouldn’t really grok new games by grinding them out. And there was a touch of that with some of the little games I learned on Board Game Arena. However, the games I was going to enjoy anyway I did enjoy.

While there are a number of games I learned that I want to revisit but the two I have already continued to play are Forage and Koala Rescue Club. Forage is the third and currently final game in the Orchard series and Koala Rescue Club was (at the time) the latest collaboration from Post Mark Games. Both games have ancestry I appreciate.

I ultimately didn’t do as much gaming on paper but that was because I spent more time learning games. Which isn’t a bad way to end the year.