{"id":4354,"date":"2018-03-12T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2018-03-11T12:25:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T18:25:42","slug":"2018-game-challenge-update-10-weeks-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=4354","title":{"rendered":"2018 Game Challenge Update: 10 Weeks In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just past the 10th week of the year and I thought it&#8217;d be a good time to take stock of the game challenges I had planned for the year.\u00a0 At this point, I&#8217;ll be on track or beating the curve if I&#8217;m 20 or more games into my respective challenges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rising-Sun-Turtle-Power.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4356\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rising-Sun-Turtle-Power-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rising-Sun-Turtle-Power-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rising-Sun-Turtle-Power-198x149.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rising-Sun-Turtle-Power-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rising-Sun-Turtle-Power-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rising-Sun-Turtle-Power-900x675.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rising-Sun-Turtle-Power.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s see how I&#8217;m doing, beginning with part 1, my 100 games of the Duke challenge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Duke-Fail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4357\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Duke-Fail-600x371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Duke-Fail-600x371.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Duke-Fail-198x122.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Duke-Fail-400x247.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Duke-Fail.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ugh. That is disappointing.\u00a0 Apparently I haven&#8217;t really been able to get this game going. I don&#8217;t have high hopes for this challenge getting completed in the year so I&#8217;ve decided to go a different route and switch games.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll get near 100 games in but I have been hitting Walking Dead with consistent regularity so I&#8217;m going to switch gears and go big with 100 games of Walking Dead: All Out War. Of course, most of these will be solo games and one might argue &#8220;The Pit&#8221; scenarios are not full games but I&#8217;m going to count them anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/walking-dead-all-out-war-the-pit-05-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4130\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/walking-dead-all-out-war-the-pit-05-31-600x377.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/walking-dead-all-out-war-the-pit-05-31-600x377.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/walking-dead-all-out-war-the-pit-05-31-198x124.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/walking-dead-all-out-war-the-pit-05-31-400x251.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/walking-dead-all-out-war-the-pit-05-31-768x482.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/walking-dead-all-out-war-the-pit-05-31-900x565.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/walking-dead-all-out-war-the-pit-05-31.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll update my <a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?page_id=3652\">Challenge Page<\/a> accordingly to track my Walking Dead games for the year.\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited to see just how many games I can get in as it also coincides with my goal to paint more of my figures.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Part 2 is all about diversity in game experiences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/march-10-part-2-challenge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4360\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/march-10-part-2-challenge-600x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/march-10-part-2-challenge-600x372.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/march-10-part-2-challenge-198x123.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/march-10-part-2-challenge-400x248.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/march-10-part-2-challenge.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alright! Now this challenge is going places.\u00a0 At 25 games in, we can see what challenge I&#8217;m really emphasizing this year. I figured this would be the easier of the two challenges as playing new games or dusting off old ones seems to resonate well with my game group.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if I can run through enough Walking Dead games to make through 100 before the end of the year but at least one of my challenges looks like it is working well.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll check back after week 20 and see where things stand again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just past the 10th week of the year and I thought it&#8217;d be a good time to take stock of the game challenges I had planned for the year.\u00a0 At this point, I&#8217;ll be on track or beating the curve if I&#8217;m 20 or more games into my respective challenges. So let&#8217;s see how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556,2],"tags":[555,128,177],"class_list":["post-4354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-game-challenge","category-general","tag-2018-game-challenge","tag-the-duke","tag-the-walking-dead-all-out-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}