PLAAY CONNECT 11.21.23
Tonight: First Look, Draft Duel!
Usually, our Holiday Sale PDF game is a secret until the sale begins. This year we're doing it differently! Draft Duel is a fantasy football-themed card game for one to four players. It's a fast-playing game that even non-football fans can enjoy. We've been developing this behind the scenes since early this year, and are super excited to get this game in your hands. If you like card games, or football, we think you'll like Draft Duel. If you like card games AND football, we think you'll REALLY like Draft Duel!
We'll explain how the game works, both multi--layer and solitaire, in tonight's PLAAY Space LIVE! Join us at 6pm MT (8pm ET) on the PLAAY Games YouTube channel!
...and First Look, PLAAY mats
We'll also give you a peek at the two new PLAAY match which will debut during the holiday sale, for tennis and express hockey! Don't miss it!
2023 Holiday Sale News and Notes
We're just hours away from our annual holiday sale, and before things get TOO crazy, we wanted to get some last-minute information out there for you...
• Just The Facts, Ma’am: We spelled out the basics of the sale during our "Holiday Sale Un-Wrapped" stream last Thursday, but let's go over the high points here: The sale begins at 12:01am ET Friday (11.24.23), and runs through 11:59pm ET Monday (11.27.23). It'll 10% off all printed products, 50% off all PDF products, no coupon code needed. Discounts will be applied at check-out, you won't see them as you're putting items in your cart. Don't worry, it'll be marked down at check-out. Daily door-buster deals at 12:01am, LIMITED quantities (5 to 20) on these. Several new product offerings!
• Patience, Please! We'll be experiencing heavy volume once the sale begins, and we appreciate your patience! We'll be slower to respond with e-mails, and our order turnaround time will be longer. Rest assured, we'll work as fast as we can and as hard as we can to get all orders in the mail as quickly as possible
• Free Shipping Threshold Reduced for Holiday Sale: We realized that with a 10% discount applied to a game like RED WHITE & BLUE RACIN or SOCCER BLAST would lower the price below the $49 threshold for free shipping, resulting in a $5 shipping charge--DOH! So, for the duration of the sale, we'll reduce the threshold to $44. (The website will continue to say $49, but, YOU'LL know...)
• Miscellaneous Purchases Paused during Sale: As we mentioned during our "unwrapped" stream, we want to be shipping orders rather than printing them once the sale begins. So we've temporarily turned off the "miscellaneous purchases" option until the sale is over and we've gotten everybody's package in the mail. We expect to resume on-demand product printing sometime in mid-December.
Online Christmas Party!
It's become a really FUN tradition, our annual online Christmas party! Find an ugly Christmas sweater, grab some festive refreshments and join us online for some jovial holiday streaming! It'll be Thursday, December 14th starting at 6pm MT (8pm ET) on the PLAAY Games YouTube channel! We'll have interactive chat, games, prizes and lots of holiday CHEER! PLUS--the annual White Elephant Gift Exchange!...
White Elephant Exchange Rules…
Here's how it works. YOU mail us something sports-themed from your attic, basement, closet, crawl space or whatever--please DON'T buy something! (It wouldn't be a White Elephant gift if you bought it!) Examples from past exchanges include football mini-helmets, books and magazines, sports figurines, out-of-print games, and more. Please try to keep the shipping weight under a pound, if possible. Everyone who sends us a gift will GET a gift in return, we'll draw randomly during the online party. We'll go in reverse order of gift receipt: the last gifts we get, those people go first. The early-birds get to go LAST. Remember, when it's your turn, you can opt to "steal" an already-opened gift from someone else rather than pick a new one from under the tree. There are ALWAYS some pretty sweet goodies under the tree--seems the old maxim is true, "one man's trash is another man's treasure!"
Please mail your White Elephant gift to us NO LATER than 12.03.23, so that it will be sure to get here before the party and we'll have time to wrap it. Thanks!!
PLAAY Dot CON 2024 Update
We are still hammering out the details of PLAAY Dot CON 2024, expect to have more information to share during the Online Christmas Party. We can tell you that we will be holding the convention in JUNE next year instead of July, we're zeroing in on 06.20.24 through 06.22.24. Stay tuned!
“Look-Ahead” to 2024 Live Stream
Once the online Christmas party is in the books, we'll be laying low for the rest of the year and enjoying some holiday down-time. Not shutting down or anything, but we'll be keeping a pretty low profile as we rest up for what's looking like a pivotal year in 2024. We'll have more to say about that in our annual Look-Ahead-to-the-New-Year" stream, which we've pencilled in for 01.11.24.
FREE!
• First Thanksgiving Football for SECOND SEASON: Over the years, we've released a number of vintage Thanksgiving football pairings for your holiday tabletop. This year, we thought we'd put together a package of more recent Thanksgiving football match-ups for you to bring back, each one featuring a team's first-ever appearance on Thanksgiving Day: 2010 Cincinnati vs. New York, 2011 Baltimore vs. San Francisco, 2012 Houston vs. Detroit and 2015 Carolina vs. Dallas.
• For more Thanksgiving-themed football freebies, visit the Second Season Free Stuff page and click on the "Thanksgiving Games" link. Happy Thanksgiving!
PLAAY Games HOT LIST
Here's a throwback to my previous career as a top 40 radio DJ, where a regular chart of the week's hottest hits was a radio industry staple. We chronicle the top twenty PLAAY Games each month. Where does YOUR favorite game land on the list?...
(For the 30-day period ending 10.26.23)
TW LW game
1 3 History Maker Baseball
2 2 Second Season Football
3 4 Face to the Mat Pro Wrestling
4 1 “Let’s PLAAY Tennis!”
5 9 Red White & Blue Racin’
6 8 Highlight Maker Hoops
7 6 History Maker Baseball EXPRESS
8 11 Hockey Blast
9 7 History Maker Golf
10 5 Second Season Football EXPRESS
11 10 Soccer Blast
12 13 “We Have A Problem, Mr. President…”
13 17 Demo Derby Smash-Down
14 14 Dodgeball World Tour
15 15 “Let’s PLAAY Jai-Alai!”
16 12 Score Cards
17 18 Roller Rumble
18 -- Cold Snap Canadian Football
19 16 Fury Football
20 20 Fury Hardball
Photo Finish!
One more photo from the Baseball Hall of Fame, here’s the display for “two sport stars,” the best of whom would be Bo Jackson. I’m kind of surprised they used his football jersey rather than his baseball jersey (or, better yet, maybe they could have displayed both?). If you read the fine print, you’ll see that Michael Jordan also gets a mention. We have both Jackson and Jordan included in our Cooperstown cards.
That’s it for this month, hope to see you tonight for our Draft Duel Demo! Here’s wishing you a very happy and enjoyable Thanksgiving!