Summary: <br> We’re looking both forward and backward this week, examining last year’s resolutions and using what we’ve learned to come up with new goals for 2020.<br> <br> <br> <br> Thanks to our sponsor, <a href="http://firstmovefinancial.com/familygamers">First Move Financial</a>, for helping support The Family Gamers Podcast.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> What We’ve Been Playing<br> <br> <br> <br> Koi – from Smirk & Dagger. Goldfish are mean.<br> <br> <br> <br> Dungeon Academy – from The OP. We have discovered wet erase markers! So much better for writing on a laminated sheet.<br> <br> <br> <br> Squire for Hire – a very compact card game from Letiman Games for 1-2 players. Complete “quests” and manage the inventory in your “backpack”.<br> <br> <br> <br> Animal Kingdoms – from Galactic Raptor. Play cards into 5 “kingdoms”, each with a different placement restriction.<br> <br> <br> <br> Miyabi – from HABA. Just as puzzley as we were <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/pax-unplugged-2019-haba/">promised it would be</a>. Reminds us a bit of NMBR 9 but with a better theme.<br> <br> <br> <br> Ecos: The First Continent – from AEG (which we <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/pax-unplugged-2019-aeg/">first saw at PAX Unplugged</a>). Not a simple game, but everything fits together well. Engine-building that seems fairly intuitive. Not a lot of reading, but the game requires procedural understanding that comes with knowing how to read. The iconography and production quality are both fantastic.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Grimm Masquerade – from Skybound Games. We tried the special powers, which we’d never done before. They make for a good catch-up mechanism for the player(s) with the fewest points.<br> <br> <br> <br> Duple – from Anomia Press. It’s been a long time! Still a favorite though.<br> <br> <br> <br> Unlock! Secret Adventures: A Noside Story – both in difficulty and in content, this one is very approachable for kids. Destroy a secret lair full of silly robots. The app for this one started with a “phone call” to explain the mission!<br> <br> <br> <br> Boom, Bang, Gold – from HABA. Throw “dynamite” into the box to make tokens jump and flip over. Quickly grab all the tokens that show gold or special powers! Quick, silly fun for kids and adults alike.<br> <br> <br> <br> MegaCity Oceania – from Hub Games. We are still learning, so we haven’t explored all the subtleties of the rules yet, but we are loving the ability to build your buildings and gently push them into place.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> SNAP Review – Similo<br> <br> <br> <br> This is one of our favorite games in recent memory. Similo: Fables and Similo: History are compact, approachable cooperative card games. See the pictures and read the transcript over at <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/similo-card-game/">the SNAP review</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> New Year, New Games!<br> <br> <br> <br> We review our resolutions from last year (<a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/episode-126-resolutions/">episode 126</a>). Did we accomplish our goals?<br> <br> <br> <br> Complete a 5×5 – FAILURE<br> <br> <br> <br> Andrew upgraded to a 10×10 challenge (10 specific games, played 10 times each)… but failed at this challenge. He got 31% done.<br> <br> <br> <br> Anitra also challenged herself to a 5×5, but did not manage to play each of the specified games 5 times. She got 67% done. (Although there were another 33 games that she played at least 5 times each.)<br> <br> <br> <br> We forgot that we spend a lot of time reviewing games,
