Category: Personal
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$$ets, Doomlings, Final Girl, Forest Shuffle, Friedrich, Grand Austria Hotel, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Raiders of the North Sea, Rally the Troops, Simon Scarrow, Skara Brae, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Time of Crisis, Vale of Eternity, Vijayanagara, Wingspan, Wingspan: Asia, Yucata
Posted on December 1, 2025
by whovian223
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I knew November would be much better than October for my gaming, because there’s a really nice 4-day convention in November. I didn’t expect that it would be this much better, though! In November, I managed to play 36 games a total of 57… Continue Reading “November 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Bomb Busters, Bottoscon, Card Games, Combat Commander, Cover Your A$$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 October 31, 2025
by whovian223
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Who knew that after my 1000th post celebration, the next one would just be a regular “hey, what did Dave play last month?” post? In other words, we’re back to normal. The cake has been eaten, the ado has been stored so nobody can… Continue Reading “October 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Can't Stop, Card-Crafting Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Combat Commander, Czech Games Edition, Dead Reckoning, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Final Girl, GMT Games, Hypnagogue podcast, Lunch Time Games, Push Your Luck Games, SETI, Solo Games, Trick-taking games, Van Ryder Games
Posted on October 29, 2025
by whovian223
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This blog started back in March 2017 and has been a going concern (sometimes very concerned!) for over 8 years now. As my mental health has changed and my motivation has lagged sometimes, the post count has gone up and down, but I’ve consistently… Continue Reading “1000 Posts and Counting”
Posted on October 22, 2025
by whovian223
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I enjoyed board and war games as a kid, though I obviously didn’t think a lot about them. There was, of course, Monopoly and Candyland and all of that childhood trash that we look back on and say “did we really play that?” As… Continue Reading “Why Do We Play Games?”
Posted on September 30, 2025
by whovian223
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September was a weird month of gaming, mainly because I had a huge number of plays compared to August, but actually fewer games! Part of that was because the final two Sunday game days were dominated by a huge game of Wonderland’s War (details… Continue Reading “September 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Bezier Games, BG Stats, Cover Your A$$ets, Days of Wonder, Final Girl, Final Girl - Panic at Station 2891, Garphill Games, Grandpa Beck's, Heat: Pedal to the Metal, Rebel Princess, Shipwrights of the North Sea - Redux, The Taverns of Tiefenthal
Posted on September 1, 2025
by whovian223
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It’s nice when a month of gaming comes together in unexpected ways is better than you expected it to be. I was surprised by July’s gaming numbers, considering I was off. August came around and I was going to be missing one Sunday due… Continue Reading “August 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Card Games, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Combat Commander, Cooperative Games, Days of Wonder, Five Tribes, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Kosmos, Mancala games, Stonemaier Games, The Gang, Tides of Trade, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Wingspan
Posted on August 1, 2025
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Being off for almost the entire month of July, I wasn’t expecting much on the gaming front. However, I managed to attended a Wednesday night meet-up a couple of times, which greatly helped take the place of our normal lunchtime games at work, at… Continue Reading “July 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: 2-Player Games, Arcane Wonders, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Card Games, Card Shedding, Combat Commander, Contracts, Cosmodrome Games, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Favor of the Pharaoh, GMT Games, Little Dog Games, Lookout Games, NEOM, Push Your Luck Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Smartphone Inc, Spring Cleaning, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames
Posted on July 1, 2025
by whovian223
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With a convention in June (Bottoscon for the win!), I knew that June would be a much better month for gaming than May was. That’s one reason I love convention months! Even so, there weren’t as many “new to me” games as in previous… Continue Reading “June 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Alderac, BG Stats, Card Drafting, Czech Games Edition, Days of Wonder, Dice-rolling, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Imhotep, Kosmos, Let's Go to Japan, Let's Go to Japan - Grab Your Passport, Prodigals Club, Res Arcana, Route-building, Sand Castle Games, Scholars of the South Tigris, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, Ticket to Ride
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