Category: Board 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 6, 2026
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This isn’t exactly “news,” because designer Jackie Fox has been talking about it for a while on Boardgame Geek. But hearing more detail (including a relative release date, which may have been announced before but it didn’t register in my brain) made me decide… Continue Reading “Rock Hard 1977 – Ear Candy – Coming in August 2026”
Posted on January 5, 2026
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This is going to be an unusual “new to me” post, because there is literally only one game on it! December was a really slow month, as shown on Friday’s post. A really low amount of games, covered only because of a bunch of… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2025”
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 January 2, 2026
by whovian223
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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 January 1, 2026
by whovian223
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Happy New Year, everybody! I hope you had a wonderful and safe holiday season and new year’s celebration last night. Maybe you were out celebrating, or just having drinks with friends? Or maybe you were even asleep? Whichever it was, I hope it was… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2025”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: 1989: Dawn of Freedom, Architects of the West Kingdom, Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, Ark Nova digital, Assyria 2nd Edition, Berlin Wartime Thriller, Boardgame Arena, Bomb Busters, Bottoscon, Bottoscon Spring, Cascadia, Combat Commander: Europe, Cover Your A$$ets, Doomlings, Final Girl, Forest Shuffle, Friedrich, Grand Austria Hotel, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Raiders of the North Sea, Rally the Troops, Simon Scarrow, Skara Brae, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Time of Crisis, Vale of Eternity, Vijayanagara, Wingspan, Wingspan: Asia, Yucata
Posted on December 30, 2025
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Just in time to miss Christmas by a few days, how about checking out a Christmas-themed Final Girl feature film with all the bells and whistles of cheer and good tidings to you! Oh, and some evil monster wanting to kill everybody (including you)… Continue Reading “Horrifying Christmas – Final Girl – North Pole Nightmare Review”
Posted on December 29, 2025
by whovian223
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I love Goodreads as a way of tracking books read, though I am also really liking Storygraph as an alternative (since Goodreads is owned by Amazon, in case that matters to you). Starting in 2025, I have been using both, but eventually I may… Continue Reading “Notable Books Read in 2025”
Category: Board Games, Book ReviewsTags: Adrian Goldsworthy, All Systems Red, Antony Beevor, Before the Big Bang, Dayton Ward, Double Dose, Double Threat, F. Paul Wilson, Fire and Fortitude, Harry Bosch, Imperium, James S.A. Corey, John C McManus, John Scalzi, Jonathan L. Howard, Laura Mersini-Houghton, Martha Wells, Michael Connelly, Murderbot, Philip & Alexander, Rick Atkinson, Robert Harris, Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921, Shaun Walker, Star Trek, Star Trek: Coda, The Black Echo, The Fate of the Day, The Illegals, The Mercy of Gods, The Shadow on the Glass, When the Moon Hits Your Eye
Posted on December 27, 2025
by whovian223
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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 26, 2025
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There are a lot of two-player lane battler games out there, some with twists and some…without. The best ones have cards with different abilities that are squaring off against your opponent in an attempt to have the most strength in a lane. Riftforce meets… Continue Reading “Riding the Rift – Riftforce Review”
Dude! Take Your Turn! 