I’ve written about past challenges here and here so I decided to track my newest one here: it’s the 50 Games of Summer. Yes, I’m playing 50 different games on 50 different days this summer!

I started on Tuesday 6/21/22 (first day of summer!) with a sponsored solo livestream of Wormholes, the new game by Peter McPherson. It’s a pick-up-and-deliver game that I really enjoyed. The game starts simply enough as you lay wormholes around the board and try to deliver your passengers to their various destinations (planets). The wormholes let you travel farther and faster than standard movement, which is one space per energy spent.

Once you enter the mid-game there’s a real puzzle element to Wormholes as you try to find the quickest routes to travel. You can use your opponents’ wormholes, but you give them 1 VP every time you do — which may be worth it sometimes since every passenger is worth 2 VPs and there are end-game scoring goals, too.

Check out my runthrough below. I’ll be updating regularly to highlight other games played during my challenge.