2018 was the first year I kept a record of the games I played, as part of tracking how I was doing for the 10x10 challenge. Here's a look back on my year.

Number of games played: 69

Total plays: 253

Games played at least 10 times: 10

• Hero Realms (my review) - 16 plays

• Staccups (my review) - 18 plays (gifted)

• Pack of cards (my review) - 15 plays

• Animal upon Animal* - 11 plays

• Grabolo* - 11 plays (gifted)

• Rummikub* - 11 plays

• Magic Labyrinth* - 10 plays

• My First Carcassonne* - 10 plays

• Star Realms* - 10 plays

• Magic Maze* - 10 plays

Month I played the most: September

Games I played that we didn't own: 23

Games we aquired after trying someone else's copy: 5

• Drop-It (gifted)

• Ice Cool

• Azul

• Happy Salmon

• Sushi Go Party

New Games: 17

• Anomia

• Sagrada

• Stuffed Fables (loaned from friends)

• Exit: Secret of the premiere

• Drop-It

• Ice Cool

• Champions of Midguard

• Queen Domino

• Azul

• Ruins of Thandar

• Grabolo (gifted)

• Happy Salmon

• Sushi Go Party

• Scrawl (gifted)

• Caveman (gifted)

• Adrenalin

• Timeshok

Games we removed from our collection: 3

Full list of games I played in 2018

I've marked a few of these games as gifted as I've been given them to test, however, please note all my comments are honest.

5 Second Rule Junior - 1 (gifted)
5 Second Rule Mini - 1 (gifted)
Adrenaline - 2
The Amazeing Labyrinth - 1
Animal Upon Animal - 11
Anomia - 3
Azul - 4
Beasts of Balance - 1
Bugs In The Kitchen - 1
Camel Up - 1
Catan Junior - 4
Caveman - 1 (gifted)
Champions of Midgard - 3
Charades for Kids - 1
Cludeo - 1
Code names - 4
Concept - 2
Dice Forge - 1
Dinkee Linkee for Kids - 1
Dino Hunt Dice- 3
Dixit - 5
Dobble - 5
Dream Home - 1
Drop-it - 6 (gifted)
Exit Secret of the Premiere - 1 (promotional demo)
Exploding Kittens - 1
Fairy Tile - 1
Forbidden Desert - 2
Grabolo - 11 (gifted)
Happy Salmon - 3
Hero Realms - 16
High Society - 1
Ice Cool - 6
Iquazu - 1
Jenga - 3
Junk Art - 2
King of Tokyo - 1
Kingdomino - 6
Linkee - 1
Magic Labyrinth- 10
Magic Maze - 10
Make N Break - 3
My First Carcassonne - 10
One Night Ultimate Werewolf - 1
Operation - 2
Ore-some - 1
Othello - 1
Pandemic - 1
Pass the Pigs - 1
Patchwork - 3
Phase 10 - 2
Playing Cards - 15
Potion Explosion - 1
Queendomino - 1
Rhino Hero - 7
Ruins of Thandar - 1
Rummikub - 11
Sagrada - 4
Scrawl - 4 (gifted)
Staccups - 18 (gifted)
Star Realms - 10
Stuffed Fables - 1
Sushi Go Party - 5
Talisman - 1
Timeshock - 1
Tsuro - 4
Waggle Dance - 2
War of the Nine Realms - 1
Yeti in my Spaghetti - 1