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Board Game Calendar Weekly Challenges
« on: June 10, 2020, 21:00:34 »
My wife bought a calendar for me from BoardGameTables.com, which is a pretty cool weekly calendar with a challenge listed for each week.

Week 1 - Play a game you received for Christmas. [✓] We played EcoSystem.
Week 2 - Play a game without talking.
Week 3 - Play a game with someone new.
Week 4 - Play one more game after you think it's time to go to bed.
Week 5 - Play an old game with a new strategy.
Week 6 - Play a game halfway through, then switch sides.
Week 7 - Play a game that has no luck.
Week 8 - Play a game with your neighbors.
Week 9 - Play a dexterity game with your non-dominant hand.
Week 10 - Play a card game.
Week 11 - Play the game you have owned the longest.
Week 12 - Play a game counter-clockwise instead of clockwise.
Week 13 - Play a game that you think you will lose.
Week 14 - Play a game with a lot of dice.
Week 15 - Play the game you own with the longest name.
Week 16 - Play a game in the Top Ten on BoardGameGeek. (https://boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame)
Week 17 - Play a game without reading or knowing the rules.
Week 18 - Play a game three times: back to back to back.
Week 19 - Play a cooperative game. [✓] We played Hanabi.
Week 20 - Play the game you own with the shortest name. [✓] We played QE.
Week 21 - Play a game ranked outside of the Top 100 on BoardGameGeek. [✓] We played Hounded.
Week 22 - Play a game you bought at a thrift store. [✓] We played Othello.
Week 23 - Play a game that takes four hours or longer.
Week 24 - Play a game with at least eight players.

Are you able to complete the weekly challenge?

By the way, if you want to play the 2/3 guessing game for a chance to win a free game from them, go to https://boardgametablesdotcom.typeform.com/to/KvUczO today.
« Last Edit: January 15, 2021, 17:20:14 by Dragon »
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Re: Board Game Calendar Weekly Challenges
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2020, 19:42:30 »
Who's up for the next weekly challenge? Did anyone complete last week's?

Week 25 - Play a game that you think you will win.

Personally, I have a lot of games in my collection that I could play to complete that challenge, but I'll list a few that wouldn't work for me - meaning, I think there is a better chance of me losing than winning. A few that come to mind are Acquire, which we played just last night and I had the worst score, Agricola, which we played for a few weekends in a row and I only won once, and Boggle, which I probably spend as much time looking up words during scoring to verify whether they are actually words as I do writing them down.
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Re: Board Game Calendar Weekly Challenges
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2020, 13:12:22 »
Week 25 - Play a game you think you will win. [✓] We played Citadels.

Week 26 - Play your favorite game.
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Re: Board Game Calendar Weekly Challenges
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2020, 20:38:29 »
Week 27 - Design a game.
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Re: Board Game Calendar Weekly Challenges
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2020, 20:20:13 »
Week 27 - Design a game. [✓] After playing Solomon's Temple for the first time, and probably only time I ever will with the original rules, I've completely rewritten the game.

Week 28 - Play a children's game.
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Re: Board Game Calendar Weekly Challenges
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2020, 18:41:30 »
Week 28 - Play a children's game. [✓] We played Roller Coast Tycoon Board Game

Week 29 - Play a game that someone else wants to play. [✓] We played Agricola

Sorry, I missed updating this thread last week. Here's the challenge for this week:

Week 30 - Use modified rules to play a game you think is broken.
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Re: Board Game Calendar Weekly Challenges
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2020, 20:31:39 »
Week 30 - Use modified rules to play a game you think is broken. [✓] We played Solomon's Temple with my new rules. Much better. I'm going to write them up and I think I'll even submit it to the original game publisher as an idea.

Week 31 - Play a game you designed.
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Re: Board Game Calendar Weekly Challenges
« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2020, 19:00:33 »
Week 32 - Play a game you think you'll hate.
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« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2020, 19:29:00 »
Week 33 - Play a game ranked outside of the top 1000 on BoardGameGeek.
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Re: Board Game Calendar Weekly Challenges
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2020, 00:19:03 »
Week 34 - Play an abstract game.
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Re: Board Game Calendar Weekly Challenges
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2020, 16:27:54 »
Week 35 - Play a game based on a sport.
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« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2020, 12:46:27 »
Week 36 - Play a space exploration game.
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Re: Board Game Calendar Weekly Challenges
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2020, 19:57:06 »
Week 37 - Play a board game on a phone or tablet.

(I play Conquest Online, here at dragonshobbies.com, and games on BoardGameArena quite a bit and haven't ever counted any of them for these challenges, so I think in this case, I'll personally only check off this challenge if I play it in real-time or using Hot Seat mode with one of my kids. I do have one board game that I only own in digital format - Dungeon Heroes. That one is best in Hot Seat mode anyway.)
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« Reply #13 on: September 14, 2020, 21:18:04 »
Week 37 - Play a board game on a phone or tablet.  [✓] We played Logger (on BoardGameArena - hotseat mode)

Week 38 - Play a war game.
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Re: Board Game Calendar Weekly Challenges
« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2020, 22:15:18 »
Week 39 - Play a game that was published within the last year.
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