This week’s Explorable Favorites (Jan 6)

A system of beliefs of the players about some board games (not the comments) would be interesting.

Perhaps it is also useful for players know players close to match a game right?

I agree Bit and Bot Massacre. Also Jim, I’m sure if you needed any help with content I’m sure a lot of this community would love to help with articles and such.

pastorj, you got to play Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition or the second edition (AD&D)?

If I had known you would change your mind about the 4th edition.

I second both those points. You are doing an awesome job on the site. It looks great and is a ton of fun. My only complaint is that I haven’t had more time recently to add more reviews and content.

It would be nice to have the notifications back, though…

As someone who works in an expanding to nationwide chain of board game stores, and spends most of his free time playing tabletop games of all types, I can definitely say that this is my definitive website for board game reviews and what not.

It’s a clean, beautiful, and fun website, with a leveling system, and a fantastic community. I haven’t seen any aggression on here yet. The layout makes sense and is easy to navigate, unlike some OTHER board game websites. I constantly point customers new to the hobby towards this website.

I’m not as active as I’d like to be here, what with my time being consumed by selling, playing, and teaching board games (I know, my life sounds hard right?), but I certainly won’t be going anywhere else, because this is the site to be.

@Jim –

I hope I speak for many here in stating that you’re doing nothing short of building the most engaging online tabletop community… and that’s a marathon, not a sprint. Anything we can do to keep you guys invigorated and enthusiastic is a must!

As an aside, I love that internally-linked comments aren’t being held up in moderation any more, and changing the displayed reviews and tips to 12 per page (from 10) to cut down on clicks is another nice touch!

Looks like I missed the June and July 2012 explorables. I learned about this site from Jay Little (designer of X-wing) at GenCon 2012. I thought when I joined I looked at the old articles and thought I was caught up on explorables but I guess not!

Thanks, Andy, for the list! Looks like it hurt when I was away for a week during the Oct. 28, 2013 this past year. Oh well, 62 so far!

I went digging through old updates to see how many Explorable Games I could find listed.

There have been quite a few that have been listed multiple times (including Battlestar Galactica which may have been used 3 times). Due to this, I may have some double counting, but I tried to make sure I counted each game once.

By that count, I believe there have been 86 different games that have been explorable, going back to June 4, 2012. I have some recollection that a couple of those games did not have enough content to complete (Hooyah: Navy Seals Card Game and Uncharted stick out to me as not having been possible).

The big Cooperative Games lists came out sometime around September/October of 2012, and it appears there have been 66 games starting with those lists.

@Mat –

I believe 66 is the correct count if you’ve started on this site during or after Q4 2012. Those who have achieved Treasure Chest have been around longer than us, and the games they got to explore were “shut off” after a time (I believe they used to do large groups of games monthly, but this ended with the still-explorable Cooperative Collection).

A few months back, I actually visited the pages of all 1300+ games on the site to see if there were any hidden explorables. I found a few this way, and those got me to the same 66 as you. It is possible that I got bleary-eyed and missed one or two.

@coltsfan76 –

I know you’ve been around much longer… my guess is that you’ve missed a few that others of your tenure got. Several of the top-10 have achieved Treasure Chest.