{"id":69,"date":"2020-10-11T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T11:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2024-01-17T15:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T13:37:18","slug":"where-is-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/where-is-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Is Fun?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been playing games for quite a while, mostly with my regular gaming group but also making visits to gaming clubs every now and then. The game circulation has been rapid&#8230; not that many games get more than 2-3 trials after they are forgotten. Not because they would not be fine games&#8230; but with limited time tough choices has to be made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So which games do get onto the table again and again? Luckily, I have been gathering statistics over the years:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" class=\"wp-image-72\" style=\"width: 600px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/stats.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/stats.png 800w, https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/stats-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/stats-768x578.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/129622\/love-letter\" target=\"_blank\">Love Letter<\/a>: A guess and bluff game which I do not like.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/172\/sale\" target=\"_blank\">For Sale<\/a>: A game with open bidding and blind bidding. This is ok, but not necessarily my first pick for a filler.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/15363\/nexus-ops\" target=\"_blank\">Nexus Ops<\/a>: A dice fest with building troops, fulfilling missions, and sneak attacking opponents&#8230; and again a game I&#8217;m not a huge fan of.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/16267\/trans-europa\" target=\"_blank\">Trans Europa+<\/a>: Building railroads and profiting from others&#8217; hard work. I quite like this one! <\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/5782\/coloretto\" target=\"_blank\">Coloretto<\/a>: A simple set collection game that just works. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My favorite games are not on the list&#8230; and I guess the conclusion is that I like games that are not fun. Or let&#8217;s rephrase it: I like games with little or no luck after the setup (&#8220;let the best player win&#8221;) and non-direct player interaction (&#8220;no kingmaking, please&#8221;)&#8230; these games are enjoyable and fun when you are playing with players of equal skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the board game design perspective, I have probably been avoiding luck too much. The common nominator in the list above is that every player has a chance of victory, but there is a decent amount of skill involved in the success. So beware Fun, I know you are lurking around the balance point between skill and luck, and I&#8217;m gonna get ya!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing games for quite a while, mostly with my regular gaming group but also making visits to gaming clubs every now and then. The game circulation has been rapid&#8230; not that many games get more than 2-3 trials after they are forgotten. Not because they would not be fine games&#8230; but with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}