Tag: Card Games
Posted on February 2, 2026
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Hard to believe that we’re already a month into 2026! My, how time flies. I wasn’t sure what to expect from January, especially because we had some really small Sundays and long games played. Which is good! But also means that not a lot… Continue Reading “January 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, AllPlay, Arboretum, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Capstone Games, Card Games, Claim, Kosmos, Lost Cities, Lunch Time Games, Rebel Princess, Renegade Games Studios, River Valley Glassworks, Sanctuary, Tableau-building, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, White Goblin Games
Posted on January 28, 2026
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Sea Salt & Paper is a fun little card game for 2-4 players with beautiful origami artwork and interesting mechanics that make for a great filler game. Since it’s just a card game, you know that any expansions are going to be just, well,… Continue Reading “Seasoned Expansions – Sea Salt & Paper Expansions Review”
Category: Board Games, ReviewTags: Bombyx, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Expansions, Lunch Time Games, Pandasaurus Games, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Pepper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, Théo Rivière
Posted on January 19, 2026
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Last week, I mentioned that we were starting to get into the dregs of the Boardgame Geek Top 2000 games. This week, that is just reinforced! Though there is enough decent (ok, maybe “interesting” is the better word) stuff to talk about that it… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1801 Through 1900”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, 3237, Alderac, Alley Cat Games, Avalon Hill, Bitewing Games, Burgle Bros 2, Burning Banners, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Cascadero, Chocolate Factory, CMYK, Compass Games, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Dale of Merchants Collection, Deckbuilders, Factory Fun, Fowers Games, Fruit Fight, Garphill Games, Hidden Roles, Kolossal Games, Kremlin, Le Havre: Inland Port, Lucky Loop, Lunch Time Games, No Mercy, Omen: A Reign of War, Push Your Luck Games, Reiner Knizia, Ride the Rails, Shipwrights of the North Sea - Redux, Snowdale Design, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Valley of the Kings: Afterlife, Wargames, Z-Man Games
Posted on January 16, 2026
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It’s another week and another entry in the Top 50 Games Played of All Time (the 2026 edition!) Of course, this is “games played,” not “games” because at only 587, my number of games played doesn’t even scratch the surface of what’s out there,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#30-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1, 10, 14, 26, 5, 53, Action Selection, Andrew Veen, Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, Architects of the West Kingdom, Area Control, Brad Johnson, Card Games, Cranio Creations, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Delicious Games, Devir, Dice Drafting, Earth, Eilif Svensson, Flaminia Brasini, Gale Force 9, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Helge Meissner, Inside Up Games, Isra C, Kayenta Games, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Lunch Time Games, Maxime Tardif, Obsession, Peter Lee, Revive, Rodney Thompson, Schadenfreude, Shei S, Shem Phillips, Shipyard (2nd Edition), Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Studio Turbine, Tableau-building, The White Castle, Time of Crisis, Trick-taking games, Tyrants of the Underdark, Virginio Gigli, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Wray Ferrell
Posted on January 12, 2026
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We’re starting to get down into the dregs of the Boardgame Geek Top 2000 games. Not dregs in that these are bad games, because considering there are thousands of games in the BGG database, the top 2000 are still fairly highly rated. But just… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1701 Through 1800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2, Action Selection, Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #2, Alderac, Bang!, Bot Factory, Card Games, Devir, Dice City, Dice-rolling, DV Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, Hasbro, Hit Z Road, Ierusalem: Anno Domini, Lookout Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Pearl Games, Resource Management, Rio Grande Games, Robo Rally, Rondel Games, Salton Sea, Space Cowboys, Space Station Phoenix, Staufer Dynasty, Tournay, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on January 7, 2026
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Another break in the weekly schedule, but that’s because of New Years, a new month, some end of the year stuff, and all of that. I hope your new 2026 year has been treating you well so far! We’re back with another century of… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1601 Through 1700”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1541, 1588, 1621, 1685, 2-Player Games, Alderac, Area Control, Asymmetric Games, Auction Games, Avalon Hill, Board & Dice, Capstone Games, Card Games, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Eerie Idol Games, EmperorS4, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Granna Games, Inventors of the South Tigris, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Merchant of Venus, Nagaraja, NEOM, Pick Up & Deliver, Sanctuary, Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game - Clone Wars Edition, Tableau-building, Terracotta Army, The Old King's Crown, Tile-Laying Games, Titan, Trains: Rising Sun, Villages of Valeria, Walking in Burano, Warsaw: City of Ruins
Posted on January 3, 2026
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Two years goes by so fast. Hell, even a month goes by so fast, as I remember looking forward to all of the holiday fun and time off in December, and now it’s January and where did the time go? However, it has been… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#50-41)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, 687, Action Selection, Arcs, Card Games, Cole Wehrle, Contracts, Daily Magic Games, Daniel Bullock, David Gordon, Deep Water Games, Dice Placement, Drafting Games, Elizabeth Hargrave, Fantastic Factories, Finspan, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Guild Academies of Valeria, In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943-44, Inventors of the South Tigris, Jo Kelly, Joe Schmidt, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Michael O'Connell, Molly House, PubMeeple, Roll and Move, Root, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stan Kordonskiy, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Trick-taking games, Wehrlegig Games, Wingspan
Posted on December 27, 2025
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Sorry for breaking the weekly schedule, those of you who have been following these posts so religiously (hi, Bob!) Last week had other important posts to do that didn’t take quite as much time, because these posts do take a lot of effort and… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1501 Through 1600”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: A Gest of Robin Hood, Action Selection, Alderac, Area Control, Area Movement, BoardgameTables.com, Card Games, CMYK, COIN Games, Contracts, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Game Brewer, GMT Games, Hostage Negotiator, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Middle Ages, Mountain Goats, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Renegade Games Studios, Route-building, Sentient, Smash Up, Smash Up: It's Your Fault, Starship Captains, Stroganov, Tableau-building, TEN, The Hunger, Transamerica, Van Ryder Games, Variable Player Powers, White Goblin Games, Winsome Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 14, 2025
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Sorry to break the “weekly” routine, but other posts needed to happen last week. But hey, at least it’s Sunday! Ok, that’s part of the next week, but still It’s time for another look through the Boardgame Geek top game rankings, this time in… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1301 Through 1400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, A Distant Plain, Action Selection, ADC Blackfire Entertainment, Alderac, Ambush!, Andean Abyss, Calimala, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Castle Panic, Claim, COIN Games, Cooperative Games, Deduction, Diamonds, Dice-rolling, Falling Sky, Fireside Games, For the People, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Machi Koro, Pandasaurus Games, Ravensburger, Renegade Games Studios, Riftforce, Search for Lost Species, Smash Up: Monster Smash, Strike, Stronghold Games, Trick-taking games, Victory Games, Wargames, White Goblin Games, Wilderness War
Posted on December 10, 2025
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I knew that November was going to be huge for New to Me games, but I didn’t realize just how huge! Between a convention (which, surprisingly enough, I didn’t play many new to me games at until the day Abi showed up) and multiple… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, AllPlay, Area Control, Assyria 2nd Edition, Auto-battler, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card Shedding, Catch Up Games, CMYK, Courtisans, Dan Schumacher, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eerie Idol Games, Emanuele Ornella, Fromage, Garphill Games, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jamey Stegmaier, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Masato Uesugi, Mathias Wigge, Oddland, Origin Story, Pablo Clark, Pete Wissinger, Reiner Knizia, Richard Garfield, Road to Infamy Games, Roll and Move, Sanctuary, Scorpion Masqué, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stonemaier Games, Tag Team, Takashi Ishida, The Old King's Crown, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda