During September, I managed to play 37 games of 32 different titles, with 9 of them being new to me. The new games were:
== NEW GAMES ==
Justice League: Hero Dice – Batman – 1 play – 6
First Published 2015
Justice League: Hero Dice – Green Lantern – 1 play – 6
First Published 2016
Justice League: Hero Dice – Superman – 1 play – 6
First Published 2015
Justice League: Hero Dice – Flash – 1 play – 6
First Published 2016
Four different sets of dice to pit against the villains linked to the various DC heroes. Each set plays a bit differently and works reasonably well but I wasn’t feeling enough to persuade me to play any of the sets again.
Blue Lagoon – 1 play – 9
First Published 2018
Fabulous new token placement game from Reiner Knizia, reminiscent of Through the Desert but with a Feldian multiplicity of scoring methods. Really enjoyed this.
Aladdin’s Dragons – 1 play – 7
First Published 2000
Having released Keydom from the collection, I managed to grab a reasonably priced copy of the Rio Grande revision to see how it compared. Almost identical and good fun.
Donkey Derby – 1 play – 7
First Published 2016
Another updated version of an older game, this time Favoriten being turned into a donkey race. Very little different from the earlier version and again good fun. Glad to have got this back in the collection.
Zeus on the Loose – 1 play – 6
First Published 2006
A simple numbers game like Straw but where only the one person who holds Zeus wins the round and advances towards the four winning-rounds target. Good but, given a choice, I’d much rather play Straw.
Mondrian: The Dice Game – 1 play – 6
First Published 2016
A dice rolling game where you need to roll and land your dice on the right areas of the grid of cards. But each die needs to be launched onto the play area in a different way: right and left handed rolls, a blind roll, a flick and a drop. Quite good fun but a bit random if you’re not very dexterous.
== OTHER GAMES PLAYED THIS MONTH ==
2x Fastcard Soccer
2x Onirim
2x Memoir ’44
2x Urbion
2x Pickomino
1x Noch mal!
1x The Game
1x Mmm!
1x Castellion
1x Concordia
1x Pandemic: The Cure
1x For Sale
1x Elevenses for One
1x Hostage Negotiator
1x The Castles of Burgundy: The Card Game
1x Oceania
1x Vegas
1x Winchester
1x Fireside Football
1x Archaeology: The Card Game
1x Powerships
1x Rolling Japan
1x Straw
== THE YEAR SO FAR ==
So far this year, I’ve played 267 games of 176 different titles. My most played are:
Cucina Curiosa 7
Onirim 7
Verflucht 7
After the Virus 5
Exxtra 5
The Game 5
The Mind 5
== STATE OF THE COLLECTION ==
I added just 4 new titles to the collection which were the four Justice League: Hero Dice titles. I also reacquired Knizia’s Palazzo which means my total collection now stands at 597.
I am back down to zero unplayed games (5 at the start of the month) and my Game of the Month was another Reiner knizia game, Blue Lagoon.