Striving for Achievements - the difference between achievement play and striving play (Topic Discussion)

<p>When I play a board game with my friends, I know that they have the same intention: to win. Yet, they actually all want quite different things. One friend is happiest when they find a strategy that works and keeps working. Another wants to take a game apart until they understand the most efficient route to victory. I want to win too, but as a reviewer, I am usually more interested in understanding what a game is trying to do, how its mechanisms produce an experience and how the people around the table respond. Listening to <a href="https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/673-the-score/">episode 673 of the <em>99% Invisible</em> podcast</a>, I found that <em>C. Thi Nguyen</em>, a philosophy lecturer at the <em>University of Utah</em> and author of <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735252/the-score-by-c-thi-nguyen/">the book &quot;<em>The Score</em>&quot;</a>, has really well described these differing expectations of wanting to win a board game.</p><p><strong>Read the full article here:</strong> <a href="https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2026/09/01/striving-for-achievements-the-difference-between-achievement-play-and-striving-play-topic-discussion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2026/09/01/striving-for-achievements-the-difference-between-achievement-play-and-striving-play-topic-discussion/</a></p><p><strong>Useful Links</strong></p><ul><li>Episode 673 of the <em>99% Invisible</em> podcast: <a href="https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/673-the-score/">https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/673-the-score/</a></li><li><em>The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else&#39;s Game</em> by <em>C. Thi Nguyen</em>: <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735252/the-score-by-c-thi-nguyen/">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735252/the-score-by-c-thi-nguyen/</a></li><li><em>Wingspan</em> review: <a href="/2019/03/16/wingspan/">https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2019/03/16/wingspan/</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Music</strong></p><p>Intro Music: Bomber (Sting) by Riot (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>)</p><p>Komorebi by | e s c p | <a href="https://www.escp.space">ht