PLAAY CONNECT: 12.26.24
This will be a "quick-connect" with less info than we usually give you, but we did want to get the word out on a couple of things. Read on!...
Happy Holidays!
We're still celebrating the holidays, hope you are as well! If you missed our online party, check it out here…
Congrats to our Christmas Fishin' winning angler (Joe Cards) and to James Jones who chose Joe to win (along with Bill Mason and Paul Strickert) and won the $25 gift card by coming closest to the winning catch weight in the tie-breaker!
College Football Retro Bowl Binge, 1960!
The winding down of the calendar year and the cranking up of the college football bowl season are two things that are synonymous with "Happy New Year!" We thought we'd give you the chance to hop in the "way-back" machine and revisit a vintage bowl season from yesteryear! The 1959 season saw Syracuse go undefeated, led by "the express" Ernie Davis, their season capped off with a Cotton Bowl victory over Texas. Read more about this new release here...
PLAAY Dot CON 2025: Final Week for Super Early Bird Pricing!
We're cooking up a best-ever assortment of activities, events and features for the 2025 edition of PLAAY-dot-CON! Save forty bucks by purchasing your PLAAY Pass before the end of the year, $79 gets you into ALL convention activities and the pre-con picnic and open game play-day at the hotel!
Just a heads-up, it looks like we'll set another record for convention attendance, and possibly have our first sell-out--we currently have about 20 PLAAY passes remaining. (Not trying to “strong arm” here, just saying that if you’re definitely planning to be at the convention, you should take advantage of the savings before the end of the year!) Here’s the link for getting your PLAAY Pass!…
2025 Look-Ahead Stream set for 01.09.25
Hard to believe, but January 1st will mark the 25th anniversary of PLAAY games! We launched the first version of PLAAY.com on New Year's Day, 2000! We have an exciting year ahead, with several interesting twists to share with you, so plant to join us for our New Years Look-Ahead Stream, January 9th, 6pm MST (8pm EST) on the PLAAY Games YouTube Channel...
FREE Stuff!!
• Home-Brew 1967-68 Pro Season for Hockey Blast: Ron Arnst sent this home brew set to me, it goes back several years and we're not sure WHO made it! A great season for pro hockey, where the league doubled in size with six all-new clubs!
• Tim Smith's 1994 World Cup Set for Soccer Blast: Tim has posted info about this on the Delphi Forums, he asked if I would make it available for the community. Here it is! Includes team cards, schedule, background data and more!
20xx LEAP question
A handful of PLAAY Gamers reached out to me about the GILDED quality included in the Holiday Sale's 20xx LEAP card set for History Maker Baseball, they're playing with an older game book (4.0 or earlier) and that quality (and the DYNAMIC quality) are not included in the game book text.
The cards will work with the older game book, but what to do about a player who's LEAP quality is GILDED? My suggestion would be to use the SAME (3-5-6) reading as the LEAP trigger for GILDED (and DYNAMIC). Alternatively, you could just make a note in your book on pitching column readings 1-6-6 and 3-5-5 (where the GILDED results are located), but the 3-5-6 might be easier to remember.
Photo Finish!
Here's one of our favorite PLAAY Gamers, Andy Lewis hanging out with his family at the Phialdelphia Wings (lacrosse) game! Andy is the creator of this year's Holiday Sale lacrosse card sets, and he also (greatly!) helped with the rules for this year's Holiday PDF game, "Reel-Time Pro Fishin'" Everyone’s geared-up in Wings gear, pretty cool!
That's it for this month...well, I guess that's it for this YEAR! 2024 has been another amazing year, thanks mostly to our incredible community of board gamers. THANK YOU for all your encouragement, kindnesses and support--we'll see you again in a couple of weeks with an exciting peek at what our 2025 will look like!