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Welcome to Pick Up and Deliver the podcast where I pick up my audio recorder as I step

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off the train and deliver an episode to you while I walk home.

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I'm Brendan Riley.

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Well, good afternoon listeners.

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It's a kind of drizzly night here in suburban Chicago.

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And you know what that means?

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More road noise than usual.

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Whenever cars go by they're going to be extremely noisy.

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So I may do a little bit more pausing and editing than usual.

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If I've been counting correctly and I think I have, this is the first episode of season

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7.

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Because yes, this is the first episode of season 7, episode number 601 of Pick Up and Deliver.

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Now every year up till now, episode 1 has been roughly January 25th of the season.

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And this year I got behind in the winter and then January was really busy and so I didn't

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even, I was still 20 some episodes away when January rolled around.

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So I just, I ended the episode at the end of March.

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It's now the beginning of April and I'm starting the new season.

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We'll see.

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This one's just going to go as long as it does.

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Just part of me that has a fantasy that I'm going to file enough episodes that I will finish

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around December 15th or December 20th with the season.

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But that would be a significant uptick in production over what I usually do.

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So who knows what we'll do.

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I'm just going to be in it for the fun now.

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For those of you new to the podcast, welcome! Season 7 is here.

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And as is often the case, the first episode of a month, I do a very particular kind of

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episode.

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I do the Top of the Stack.

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It feels like it's been a couple of months since I mentioned it.

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So Top of the Stack is a format I swiped from the beloved podcast of nonsensical gamers.

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They used to do a segment each episode where they would talk about games they want to play

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that are sort of sitting on top of their metaphorical stack or it might have been an actual

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stack, I don't know.

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In my house it is, I'll get the games that are on the top of the stack out and bring them

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upstairs.

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So they're ready to play if I need them.

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As an aside, the one of the hosts of the podcast of nonsensical gamers was Dan Halstad

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who is the designer of Beez and more recently Aqua, which just came out and has been getting

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a fair amount of coverage.

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So good, good on you Dan.

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Dan's also the person who introduced me to Barenpark, which is one of my favorites.

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So begin the month, it's the Top of the Stack episode, which is where I review my play

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experience from previous month and talk a little bit about what I'm planning to do next

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month.

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So if you're brand new to the podcast, maybe this isn't the very best episode to listen to

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because it's a lot of sort of reading of lists and such, but I'll try to make it interesting

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nonetheless.

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So this month in May, or in March, I picked out four games and the goal is to play three

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of them during that month.

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There are games I haven't played before, although that's not always the case.

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That was the case this month.

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And the four games were Forum Trajanum, Bastion, Hunted: Wood Ridge, and Medieval Academy.

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And I did not get Forum Trajanum or Hunted: Wood Ridge played, but I did manage to succeed

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at playing Bastion and Medieval Academy.

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So I got two of my four played, which is about the same as last month and the same as January.

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So I am now at six out of nine potential plays in my Top of the Stacks.

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If I just change my goal to two, I'm hitting 100%.

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I'm not going to do that, but there it is.

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All right, time for some stats.

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I had 85 game plays of 56 different games this month, which comes out to a total of 218

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plays of 98 different games.

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As usual, many of those plays are in digital form on board game arena.

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I made significant progress on my shelf of opportunity, reducing it from 66 to 61 plays.

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And my collection size went up one game from 578 to 579.

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Now that's not in the right direction.

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My goal is to make a smaller collection, not a bigger collection, but given that some games

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I'm getting, some months I end up with like four or five games if I have a good, if I have

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a strong visit to a goodwill, one game isn't so bad.

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Also I bought the game with points, credit card points, so it was like free money.

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That's gamer math right there, baby.

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Okay, the most played game this month in real life was Aeon's End, which we played four times.

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And my most played game online were Gaia Project and Daybreak, each of which I played four

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times.

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My plays of Through the Ages have slowed down a little bit.

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I have one person I'm playing with regularly, but at one point I was playing regular games

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of Through the Ages of three people that has died off a bit.

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So that's okay.

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I've played that game so many times.

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I don't need to play at every moment.

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On to first plays.

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I had eleven, oh I had ten games that I played this month for the first time.

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These were new to me games.

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They're not all brand new publications.

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In fact, I think none of them are brand new publications, but they were first time to

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They are Dream Home, Medieval Academy, Forest Shuffle, on Board Game Arena, Wyrmspan,

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Charty Party, Herd Mentality, Titanic.

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That's the 2020 release designed by Daryl Adams and Adrian Adamescu with Leonardo and

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Kate Winslet on the cover, not the older Titanic game, SMARTish, Aeon's End, and Bastion.

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So a good game.

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I will be talking about, or a good month.

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I will be talking about a lot of those new games in upcoming episodes, although I still

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have some games from February to cover.

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So it'll be a little while before I'm talking about those, but you'll have to hold your breath

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until I do.

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I played one expansion this month.

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I'm keeping on the pace of, oh that's 20, by the way, that's 21 new games I've played thus

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far this year.

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Pretty good pace.

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In terms of expansions, I played one expansion this month.

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It was the Forgotten Waters DLC Pack 1, The Kraken's Eye.

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If you haven't played Forgotten Waters, it's a delight.

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I will post a link to my previous review of Forgotten Waters in the show notes.

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It's a storytelling game, or it's a story reading game I guess.

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It has a light adventure element and lots of choices to make.

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It's kind of a choose your own adventure game with a bit of randomness.

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It's very funny, pretty enjoyable.

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I really like it.

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We've been playing Freelancers lately, which is like the new version of it, but they did

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release this one DLC Pack, which we downloaded and enjoyed.

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It was good, but it's one adventure.

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It took us almost five hours to play.

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We played in two halves.

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And I guess there were five of us playing.

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It took about five hours, and it was $10.

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So that's not a terrible deal.

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You know when you compare it to an EXIT game, which is 15 bucks, and you play in an hour,

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that's a pretty good deal.

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But I'm not sure whether I thought it was worth it or not.

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Yeah, we had a good time.

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I'll say it was worth it.

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Almost anything else we had to pay 10 bucks to do it would have been shorter and not

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as much fun.

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A good time with it.

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That's the Forgotten Waters DLC Pack 1.

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I played a couple more games.

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I got a couple more games out of the dust. As a reminder.

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a game is dusty if I've gone a year or more without playing it.

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So I get a game out of the dust when I play it again.

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That's like I have dusted it off.

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And I had three games that I played out of the dust this month.

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The first one was Sushi Go.

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I hadn't played Sushi Go in a while.

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In fact, it had been a one year, five months, and a day between this time and last time.

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Sushi Go is always a winner.

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It used to be a very regular staple in our household.

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We've kind of grown it a little bit, but it is always excellent.

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I don't have Sushi Go: Party.

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I did play it online once.

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I didn't count it as a play because I feel like I didn't really...

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Sometimes I count online plays as plays.

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Sometimes when I play a new game, I don't count it as a play because I didn't feel like

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I grasped the game enough.

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It's kind of weird, all in it.

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But yeah, so Sushi Go.

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We played that.

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It had been a year.

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I played Potion Explosion, which had been one year, one month, and six days since the last

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time I played that.

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That might have been since the last digital play.

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Who knows how long it had been since the last audio play?

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Who knows how long it had been since the last real life play?

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I did on Potion Explosion, but that game is always fun.

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I really enjoy it.

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I haven't really played it with super strong competitors in person in this...

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I mean, when I say super strong competitors, I mean people who have played the game enough

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to kind of get how it works.

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One of the people I played with got it pretty fast and kept pace with me, but it took them

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a round or two, and that's the kind of game where once you get ahead, it's really hard

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to catch up.

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So, that was a good time.

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That was one year, one month, and six days.

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And then, Century: Golem Edition, we hadn't played in a while either.

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I like Century.

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I have all three of the games, and I enjoy them all, but the first one is just head and

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shoulders above the others.

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It is really, really good.

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And that was one year, eight months, and 19 days since the last time I played that.

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That makes seven games this far, this year, so far.

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I've dusted off, averaging just over two a month.

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If I keep up that pace, that's not bad, 24 a year.

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I'd expect to be more than that, but you never know.

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A lot of the games that I play, I keep in regular circulation.

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So, getting older games back to the table is a little harder.

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I've added a new category to my logging on boardgamegeek, because I am trying to get

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games played more often.

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I'll sometimes have plays that I think are interesting, and I want to mention, but they

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don't fit any of the other categories I'm tracking, so I'm calling these notable plays.

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And if I have a play of a game that just I wanted to mention on the podcast, I put it in

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a notable place, so here they are.

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I got to play Altiplano again.

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This game continues to reward.

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I might have to go back, I do really like Altiplano, but I think I'm shifting back to liking

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Orléans more.

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The box in Altiplano is better.

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If you haven't played either of them, they're both bag builders, where you're buying chips,

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and putting them in a bag, or tokens, and then you pull the tokens out and you get to

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spend the tokens.

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In Orléans, you just put the tokens right in the bag when you buy new tokens.

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And as a result, because you're always putting the used tokens back in the bag, you might not

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ever get tokens you buy.

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You could buy a token, and then you use a couple tokens, put them in, you draw the ones

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you used again, unless you're taking a concerted effort to really get rid of the ones you're using,

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which is hard to do.

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You might end up never drawing one of the tiles you've bought.

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And that stinks.

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By contrast, in Altiplano, you only refill the bag after you've emptied it, and you put

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the tokens you're using in a little box, and then you double-mall in once you empty the

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bag.

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It actually takes a little bit longer, usually, to get a chip you purchased, because you

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have to put in the box first.

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So except in very rare circumstances, you almost never draw the tile you just bought

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on the turn after you buy it.

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But by contrast, you'll never, any chip you buy in the first half of the game, you definitely

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will get to see, because you'll empty out the bag.

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But I do really like Altiplano, and I really like it with The Traveler expansion, and

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I haven't played with that in a while, so that may need to get back out to the table again.

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Sagrada: Artisans, my wife and I finished the campaign of that.

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That was a lot of fun.

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We have a whole bunch of bonus windows for it, so I imagine we'll keep playing it for a while.

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If you get a chance to play Sagrada: Artisans, if you like Sagrada, it's well worth it, I

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think.

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Really fun.

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I guess if I'm doing the same analysis of the per game cost that I put on forgotten waters

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on Sagrada: Artisans, it's pretty close to the same, roughly the same.

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Oh, there's a turtle dove.

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Or a morning dove.

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A morning dove, excuse me.

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Sagrada: Artisans was a delight.

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It's a legacy game, by the way.

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You're coloring in a coloring book, and over the course of the game, you are learning about

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or you're playing different stained glass windows and rolling dice and stuff.

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It's pretty great.

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I like the lot.

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Weather Machine.

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I got to play again.

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It feels like I'm getting the hang of it now, but I just got clobbered early on.

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Actually, my son played with us, and early on, he made a move that kind of cut my knees

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out from under me, and instead of backing off, I kind of doubled down on it, and it was

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a terrible choice.

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And I really, I ended up with like 20 points less than my son, who ended up with like 10 points

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less than the winner.

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So, clobbered.

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On my 10 for 10 progress, you'll remember that this year, the 10 for 10 is categories of

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games, and we are trucking along nicely.

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We've completed two categories, the Legacy/Campaign category and the alphabet A through

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J category are done.

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Several of the other categories are over five, and we're at a total of 47 out of 100 plays

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already in March, which is a great start.

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Now, the reality of 10 for 10 is they always get much harder as it goes along because the

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later ones are games you have to really go out of your way to play, so I'm going to try

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to get some of those up.

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We did get our first novelty game played, that was a Titanic.

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I think I'm going to put one of those on my top of the stack this month.

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No painting done this month, bummer.

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I show up for opportunity, I've kind of talked about, and that just brings us to the question

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of what games I'm going to play for next month.

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You know, I'm going to die on this hill, I am keeping Hunted: Wode Ridge as the solo

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game.

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I'm going to play that eventually, and when I do, yee haw, it's going to be great.

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So, Hunted: Wode Ridge will stay as my priority game to play for solo games.

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My heavier game that I want to play is Porta Nigra, I guess.

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This is the stronghold game from Keisling in 2015.

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It's a very well-regarded, euro game about, I don't know, building stuff in Rome.

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I got it at a Goodwill for not nothing.

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It was like eight bucks or ten bucks, but it's a game that's pretty well-regarded, so I'm

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looking forward to try that.

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And then I think I'm going to pick a novelty game, try to play this month because, yeah,

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because I want to.

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So, what novelty game am I going to put on there?

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Well, it is the month of the Titanic sinking, April.

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So I'm going to say one of my other Titanic games.

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I have two.

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I have Titanic, the board game, and I have raised the Titanic, which is a game based on a

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Clive Cussler novel or movie.

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Both are look silly in their own ways, and I'm going to play one of them this month.

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And then finally, I usually pick just one other game that I'm excited to play from the

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collection.

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Let's try Alien Artifacts again.

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This is a game I really wanted to get played, and I've put it on the list a couple times,

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and I never seem to make it stick.

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This month, I'm going to make it stick.

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I'm going to try.

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So my four games are Porta Nigra, Hunted World Ridge, Raise the Titanic, or Titanic the

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board game, and Alien Artifacts.

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So the big question then, what games have you been playing?

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What games did you play brand new in April or in March of 2024?

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What games are you playing to play in April?

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Head over to boardgamegeek guild 3269, or search Pick Up and Deliver boardgamegeek,

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and you'll find it.

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And share your gaming from the month with the Pick Up and Deliver pals.

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It's season seven, I suppose we should have a nickname for you.

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What do you think is a nickname for a listener of Pick Up and Deliver should be?

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I want to hear it.

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You include that in your post.

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Well thanks for joining me on my walk today.

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I hope your next walk is a pleasantest mind loss.

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Bye-bye.

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