A Gaming Life
Posted on February 2, 2026 by whovian223
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 19, 2026 by whovian223
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 7, 2026 by whovian223
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 2, 2026 by whovian223
December turned out to be a gaming lost cause for the most part. Two Sundays cancelled for various reasons, one shortened one, and a bunch of work stuff going on so lunches weren’t always available as well. In fact, if it wasn’t for my… Continue Reading “December 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Adam's Apple Games, Alderac, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Combat Commander, Contracts, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Dice Drafting, Fliptoons, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Planet Unknown, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria - Riftlands, Social Deduction Games, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Valley of the Kings: Last Rites, Wargames, Werewords Deluxe, Word Games
Posted on December 18, 2025 by whovian223
I really like how successful these posts have been! There has been some true engagement as people have gone through the lists and talked about their own experiences with them. I know the last post was Sunday, but let’s get back onto that weekly… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1401 Through 1500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1391, 1405, 1487, 2-Player Games, Ancient Knowledge, Arcane Wonders, Area Majority, Avalon Hill, Betrayal at Baldur's Gate, Bezier Games, Blacklist Games, Cooperative Games, Dale of Merchants 2, Deckbuilders, DVG Games, Foundations of Metropolis, Hidden Roles, HUCH Games, Iello Games, It's a Wonderful Kingdom, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, Pavlov's House, Pegasus Spiele, Rio Grande Games, Route-building, Royals, Scorpion Masqué, Seas of Strife, Snowdale Design, Star Trek: Captain's Chair, Strasbourg, Street Masters, Tag Team, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vanuatu, Whistle Stop, Wizkids
Posted on December 10, 2025 by whovian223
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
Posted on December 3, 2025 by whovian223
It’s time for another “first impressions” post about a game that I’ve just played for the first time but which I may not play enough to eventually review. Or maybe it’s just new enough that I want to get my impressions out there and… Continue Reading “First Impressions – Sanctuary”
Category: Board Games, First ImpressionsTags: Ark Nova, Capstone Games, Contracts, Feuerland Spiele, Mathias Wigge, Sanctuary, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on December 1, 2025 by whovian223
I knew November would be much better than October for my gaming, because there’s a really nice 4-day convention in November. I didn’t expect that it would be this much better, though! In November, I managed to play 36 games a total of 57… Continue Reading “November 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Bomb Busters, Bottoscon, Card Games, Combat Commander, Cover Your A$$ets, Deckbuilders, Doomlings, Dune Imperium, Ecos: First Continent, Final Girl, Galactic Cruise, Hansa Teutonica, Inventors of the South Tigris, Inventors of the South Tigris - Era of Experts, Lunch Time Games, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, SETI, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on November 26, 2025 by whovian223
Last week’s post talking about some of the games just outside of the Top 1000 on Boardgame Geek seemed to be a big hit. Maybe not in terms of visitors to this site, but with friends of mine, sparking some discussion. In the hopes… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1101 Through 1200 – Thoughts”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1104, A Study in Emerald, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Area Majority, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Cat Lady, Cooperative Games, Ecos: First Continent, Engine-building, Explorers of the North Sea, Flatout Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Greater Than Games, Here I Stand, Linko!, Lunch Time Games, Majesty for the Realm, Point City, Racing Game, Resist!, Salt & Pepper Games, Science Fiction Double Feature, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition, Set Collection Games, Solo Games, Thunder Alley, Tile-Laying Games, Treefrog Games, Virgin Queen, Worlds Fair 1893, Z-Man Games
Posted on November 20, 2025 by whovian223
Recently the “This Game is Broken” podcast did a “Higher or Lower” game based on games in the Boardgame Geek rankings from 1000 to 2000. (You should really check them out, by the way. Hilarious boardgame podcast) During the Covid lockdowns, in order to… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1000 Through 1100 – Thoughts”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1989: Dawn of Freedom, Adrenaline, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, boardgamegeek, Capstone Games, Card-Driven Game, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Castles of Mad King Ludwig Collector's Edition, Coffee Traders, Czech Games Edition, Deduction, Economic Games, Friedrich, GMT Games, Hidden Movement, Histogame, One vs Many, Point to Point Movement, Rebellion Unplugged, Sniper Elite: the Board Game, Tile-Laying Games, Washington's War, Worker Placement Games, Yedo, Yedo: Deluxe Master Set
This is a blog about board games, with the occasional other post for a bit of spice.