A Gaming Life
Posted on February 16, 2026 by whovian223
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve done one of these BGG centuries posts, though not because I was getting tired of them. There were just more important things to post about! I enjoy writing these BGG posts, even when the games are… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1901 Through 2000”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #3, Alderac, Chilifox Games, COIN Games, Contracts, Cwali, Dice Drafting, Draft & Write Records, Drafting Games, Empire Builder, Factory Funner, Fields of Fire 2, GMT Games, Halls of Hegra, Inside Up Games, Multiman Publishing, Pendragon: the Fall of Roman Britain, Queen Games, Ravensburger, Roll and Write Games, Route-building, Schadenfreude, Solo Games, Spectacular, Studio Turbine, Tile-Laying Games, Tompet Games, Trick-taking games, Wallenstein, Wargames, Whirling Witchcraft
Posted on July 3, 2025 by whovian223
Ah, June. Halfway through the year (at the end of it anyway) and it’s good to take stock of where I am in my boardgaming. I’ve played more than half again the number of unique games as I did last year, meaning I (hopefully)… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, After Us, AJ Porfirio, Bill Fawcett, Card Games, Catch Up Games, COIN Games, Czech Games Edition, Darwin Bromley, David Karesh, Dice Drafting, Empire Builder, Evan Derrick, Fillers, Final Girl, Florian Sirieix, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Kenneth Tee, Lepidoptery, Lunch Time Games, Mayfair Games, Mob+, New Mill Industries, Pandasaurus Games, People Power, Pulsar 2849, Resource Management, Route-building, Shem Phillips, Skara Brae, Solo Games, Srinivas Vasudevan, Train Games, Trick & Snipers, Trick-taking games, Van Ryder Games, Vladimír Suchý, 宮野 華也 (Kaya Miyano)
Posted on June 18, 2025 by whovian223
I love game conventions. Not only do they give me even more of an opportunity to play great games, but it gives me the opportunity to game and chat with many people who I don’t see very often. That’s why Bottoscon is one of… Continue Reading “Bottoscon Spring 2025 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Archaeology - The New Expedition, Bottoscon Spring, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card Shedding, COIN Games, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Devir, Diamonds, Empire Builder, Fantastic Factories, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Jackie Fox, Lepidoptery, Let's Go to Japan, Let's Go to Japan - Grab Your Passport, Lunch Time Games, Mayfair Games, Metafactory Games, Mob+, New Mill Industries, Pandasaurus Games, People Power, Pick Up & Deliver, Prodigals Club, Pushing Cardboard, Rock Hard 1977, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, SETI, Stronghold Games, Trick & Snipers, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
This is a blog about board games, with the occasional other post for a bit of spice.