New Additions to My Game Collection

Between Origins, Kickstarter deliveries & my recent birthday, I've added quite a few titles to my game library since the beginning of June. Here's what's new on my shelves:

Origins Haul

I left Columbus in June with a car full of new goodies (along with a few boxes of games I was transporting for a friend). I bought fewer games than last year, adding the following to my collection:

Animal Upon Animal: Small and Yet Great!

Cacao

Doug, Doug, Goose, Caboose (this just showed up in my bag one day)

Hanabi Deluxe

Imperial Settlers

Planes

Sky Tango

Ubongo (a free mini version given away at their booth)

The Voyages of Marco Polo

Welcome to the Dungeon

In addition, I bought my nephews My Very First Games Animal Upon Animal & I received a set of 2 awesome Marvel-themed dice bags I'd commissioned from from Sam & Ken of Geek-Craft (you can order your own here). The final gaming-related item I obtained at Origins (thanks to HABA & Matt Wolfe) was my very own Rhino Hero cape!

Birthday Haul

I received fewer games than I typically get on gift-giving occasions, as my parents & husband grouped together to buy me the amazing (& HUGE) Lego Helicarrier set instead of buying games from my wishlist as has been their usual standby. But I still managed to add 5 new titles to my shelves.

Glen More & Notre Dame together were an extremely generous gift from one of my friends (& most frequent gaming opponents). Both are harder-to-obtain games that I've loved so I'm thrilled to finally have my own copies. I've already ordered replacement wooden bits from Mayday for Glen More so I can make my copy even better.

Riff Raff, Loony Quest, and Why First? were, in fact, my birthday gifts to myself. I put together this order from Amazon.de at the beginning of the month & it arrived a few days ago. All three are games that I've previously played & thoroughly enjoyed and that also have great potential for family & other non-gamer friend gatherings so I'm hoping they'll see plenty of play.

Other Acquisitions

Seven7s, the Compounded: Geiger Expansion, and my set of all 8 Pack O Games all arrived as various Kickstarter campaigns fulfilled their backer rewards. I haven't played any of them yet, but hope to get at least Seven7s to the table soon.

The Eldritch Horror Forsaken Lore expansion and a set of 5 additional AH-themed dice were items I treated myself to after enjoying a couple of solo plays of Eldritch Horror over the July 4th weekend. I still haven't managed to play the game with other people, but I really enjoy it & so decided that more cards and more dice were a no-brainer (I've never understood why both AH & EH didn't include more dice in the damn boxes).

Additions in summary:

1 & 1/2 months, during which I added

24 games (plus 1 purchased as a gift), and

2 expansions, plus

3 gaming accessories (& have ordered 1 more).