Whenever a new game was delivered to our doorstep we could be sure of one thing: at least one of our cats would jump into the empty box. In the last couple of years, Apollo would also claim that box as his sleeping spot for a couple of weeks (until a better box arrived). It gave shipping boxes an extra function instead of them going straight to the trash (or being re-used to sell games). It’s been weirdly quiet around the house without the cats so it’s great to draw them from time to time. 🙂

There’s no weekly recap video this week because I’ve been ill! Combining that with multiple deadlines hasn’t been great but I’m starting to feel better again. It did mean that we didn’t play any games all week. Except for last night. Our mini-painting night got canceled due to friends also being ill (I guess it’s going around…), so Heinze and I had the night to ourselves.

It was time to dive back into Joyride. There was a little controversy about the game last week so we felt it was a great moment to play it more! The first two games we played earlier lacked the chaos I was expecting and it felt more like a tactical racing game. I assume this will be totally different when playing it with three or four players but we haven’t gotten that chance yet. So last night, we picked out the more chaotic maps (like the volcano) and even added the monsters. This made things more interesting in my opinion although the chaos hit Heinze way harder than myself. Due to some very lucky dice rolls, I currently have a 100% win rate in Joyride but… I’m afraid that won’t last forever. 😉

It was the start of December and that means two things! First: It’s Heinze’s birthday tomorrow, hurray! Second, it means that we’ve been logging our board game plays for ten years now! You can see our top 50 most-played games right here. We haven’t logged details like the winner from the start, so we cannot give you any stats on who has won the most games alas. 😉 There were quite a few surprises in the list, even for us. We owned fewer games back then so it makes sense that we played a lot of them more often. We almost feel like pushing the pause button for a year and just starting playing the games we own right now.

Our Middara night has been replaced with our rescheduled mini-painting night so we’ll see how many games we can get to the table this week! But one thing is sure, it will probably be more than last week.

In case you missed it, we published an extra comic last week about Rebel Princess! Oh, and since this comic is about boxes…