Posted on November 12, 2020
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Welcome to this week’s edition of BGG’s Top 200 games! The series where I look at those games in the BGG rankings from #200-101, ten games at a time. Two weeks in a row? That’s gotta be a record. Things are actually looking pretty… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #140 – 131”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andreas Steding, Area Control, Bezier Games, Bill Eberle, Bill Norton, Card Games, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Cosmic Encounter, Days of Wonder, Deduction, Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Dice-rolling, Fantasy Flight Games, GMT Games, Hansa Teutonica, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Jack Kittredge, Jaipur, Jakub Łapot, Kevin Wilson, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Memoir '44, Nate French, Ora et Labora, Peter Olotka, Portal Games, Przemysław Rymer, Richard Borg, Roll and Write Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Space Cowboys, Stronghold Games, Suburbia, Ted Alspach, That's Pretty Clever, The Lord of the Rings: the Card Game, Tile-Laying Games, Uwe Rosenberg, Wargames, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on November 5, 2020
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And we’re back from the long hiatus that I seem to periodically take, like, every month or so. I really need to have a chat with these demons that seem to get inside my head all of the time and keep me from feeling… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #150-141”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Awaken Realms, Captain Sonar, Card-Driven Game, Chad Jensen, Civilization Building, Cody Miller, Combat Commander: Europe, Eggertspiele, Einar Rosén, Far Off Games, GMT Games, Gord!, Inka Brand, Jakub Wiśniewski, Lautapelit.fi, Lunch Time Games, Markus Brand, Matagot, Michał Oracz, Nations, Near and Far, Nina Håkansson, Paths of Glory, Red Raven Games, Res Arcana, Robert Rosén, Roberto Fraga, Roxley Games, Rustan Håkansson, Ryan Laukat, Sand Castle Games, Santorini, Space Games, Tableau-building, Team Games, Ted Raicer, This War of Mine, Tom Lehmann, Village, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Yohan Lemonnier
Posted on October 9, 2020
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Another week, another “wow, I haven’t played many games” post. It’s almost like I’m failing as a “gamer”. Is that possible? Should I really feel bad that I haven’t played a bunch of games? Maybe, if I’m actually writing about them. Am I not… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #160-151”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adrian Adamescu, Aeon's End: War Eternal, Alan R Moon, Andreas "Ode" Odendahl, Arcadia Quest, Area Control, Block Wargames, Card Drafting, Card Games, CMON, Codenames: Duet, Collectible Card Game, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Daryl Andrews, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Eric Lang, FloodGate Games, Fred Perret, GMT Games, Guilherme Goulart, Indie Boards & Cards, Kevin Riley, La Granja, Lunch Time Games, Magic: the Gathering, Matt Calkins, Michael Keller, Miniatures, Richard Garfield, Rio Grande Games, Sagrada, Scot Eaton, Sekigahara: the Unification of Japan, Set Collection Games, Space Cowboys, Splendor, Thiago Aranha, Tichu, Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries, Trick-taking games, Urs Hostettler, Vlaada Chvátil, Wizards of the Coast
Posted on October 1, 2020
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Yes, there is a shower of toads raining down on Vancouver right now. Yes, Hell has frozen over and the devil is ice skating. That’s right, this post is actually coming out a week after the last post! I know you’re all amazed, right?… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #170-161”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Abstract Games, Action Points, Alan R Moon, Auction Games, CMON, Coimbra, Darwin Kastle, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Devin Low, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Eggertspiele, Flaminia Brasini, Go, Goa, Hand Management, HUCH Games, Inka Brand, Jean-Baptiste Lullien, Jens Christopher Ulrich, Kanban: Driver's Edition, Markus Brand, Marvel Legendary, Miniatures, Nicolas Raoult, Rajas of the Ganges, Raphaël Guiton, Rüdiger Dorn, Richard Ulrich, Rio Grande Games, Robert Dougherty, Star Realms, Star Realms: Colony Wars, Stronghold Games, The Princes of Florence, Ticket to Ride, Tile-Laying Games, Upper Deck, Virginio Gigli, Vital Lacerda, White Wizard Games, Wolfgang Kramer, Worker Placement Games, Zman Games, Zombicide: Black Plague, Zombies
Posted on September 24, 2020
by whovian223
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This post has been a long time coming. Sorry about that. Life has a way of getting away from you sometimes, doesn’t it? Especially in these chaotic times. I swear that 2020 has been…well, let’s say “challenging.” However, I have made promises to people… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – 180-171”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Area Control, Auction Games, Bruno Sautter, Carcassonne, Card Drafting, Cartographers: a Roll Player Tale, Cyclades, Czech Games Edition, Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, Frank West, Galaxy Trucker, Goat Wolf & Cabbage, Hans im Gluck, Iello Games, Jamey Stegmaier, Jordy Adan, Just One, Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, Lucky Duck Games, Ludovic Roudy, Martin Wallace, Matagot, Max Temkin, Mayfair Games, Mike Boxleiter, Party Games, Queen Games, Ra - The Game, Ravensburger, Reiner Knizia, Repos Games, Roll and Write Games, Secret Hitler, Shogun, Social Deduction Games, Steam, Stonemaier Games, The Isle of Cats, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tobey Ho, Tommy Maranges, Train Games, Viticulture, Vlaada Chvátil, Worker Placement Games
Posted on September 2, 2020
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When I began this series about the Boardgame Geek rankings and talking about the games in them, I didn’t think it would be this difficult. The Top 100 was pretty static. So when I spent the first part of the week putting all of… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #190-181”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1830: Railways & Robber Barons, 18XX, Abstract Games, Alexander Pfister, Andreas Pelikan, Andrew Veen, Area Control, Cambridge Game Factory, Card Drafting, Card Games, Carl Chudyk, Cartographers: a Roll Player Tale, Cédrick Chaboussit, Darwin Kastle, Deckbuilders, Economic Games, Ed Carter, Francis Tresham, Friedemann Friese, Gale Force 9, Gamewright Games, Glory to Rome, Hand Management, Hero Realms, HUCH Games, Isle of Skye, Jordy Adan, Kris Burm, Lewis & Clark: the Expedition, Line-Drawing Games, Lookout Games, Ludonaute, Peter Lee, Phil Walker-Harding, Power Grid Deluxe, Racing Game, Ravensburger, Reiner Knizia, Rio Grande Games, Robert Dougherty, Rodney Thompson, Sushi Go Party, The Quest for El Dorado, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tyrants of the Underdark, YINSH
Posted on August 12, 2020
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After finally getting the last post for the BGG Top 100 games done last week, I was a bit at a loss. What to do for a follow-up? I’m still not getting many games played and while I am behind on a review or… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #200-191”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, Age of Empires III - Age of Discovery, Asger Granerud, Bora Bora, Card-Driven Game, Christian Leonard, Czech Games Edition, Dice Drafting, Dixit: Odyssey, Dungeon Petz, Flamme Rouge, Glenn Drover, GMT Games, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Imperial, Imperial Settlers, Jason Matthews, Jean-Louis Roubira, Keith Matejka, Libellud, Mac Gerdts, Maciej Obszański, Portal Games, Ravensburger, Régis Bonnessée, Rio Grande Games, Roll Player, Seasons, Stefan Feld, Stronghold Games, Thunderworks Games, Tropical Games, Vlaada Chvátil, Worker Placement Games
Posted on August 3, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s been almost 4 weeks since the last post in this series looking at the Top 100 Games ranked on Boardgame Geek. I was riding high, feeling all the love the series was creating and posting something almost every week day. And then I… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Play or Played – #10-1”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Alexander Pfister, Ananda Gupta, Brass: Birmingham, Campaign Games, Card-Driven Game, Cephalofair Games, Christian T. Petersen, Civilization Building, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Dane Beltrami, Deckbuilders, Economic Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Gaia Project, Gavan Brown, Gloomhaven, GMT Games, Great Western Trail, Helge Ostertag, Isaac Childress, Jacob Fryxelius, Jason Matthews, Jens Drogemuller, Martin Wallace, Matt Leacock, Matt Tolman, Pandemic: Legacy Season 1, Rob Daviau, Roxley Games, Star Wars: Rebellion, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization, Twilight Imperium : 4th Edition, Twilight Struggle, Vlaada Chvátil, Zman Games
Posted on July 8, 2020
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We are getting close to the end of this 10-week opus, this look at the Boardgame Geek Top 100 games and which ones I’ve played. This has actually been my favourite series to write so far in the 3+ years of this blog. Mainly… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play #20-11”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 7 Wonders Duel, Antoine Bauza, Ares Games, Arkham Horror: the Card Game, Brass: Lancashire, Bruno Cathala, Castles of Burgundy, Concordia, Cooperative Games, Economic Games, Elizabeth Hargrave, Francesco Nepitello, Greater Than Games, Helge Ostertag, Jamey Stegmaier, Jens Drogemuller, Mac Gerdts, Marco Maggi, Martin Wallace, Matthew Newman, Nate French, R. Eric Reuss, Ravensburger, Repos Games, Rio Grande Games, Roberto Di Meglio, Roxley Games, Scythe, Spirit Island, Stefan Feld, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Terra Mystica, War of the Ring, Wingspan, Worker Placement Games
Posted on July 1, 2020
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It’s that time of week again. The sun’s out (kind of, though it’s supposed to rain by the time this actually posts) and we’re into Summer. Yet the temperature’s in the 60s in Vancouver and I’m really enjoying it. I don’t need it to… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? #30-21”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: A Feast for Odin, Action Selection, Agricola, Alan Stone, Andreas Seyfarth, Bag Building, Bruno Sautter, Caverna, Cooperative Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Food Chain Magnate, Jamey Stegmaier, Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga, Ludovic Roudy, Mage Knight, Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition, Morten Monrad Pedersen, Nikki Valens, Orleans, Puerto Rico, Ravensburger, Reiner Stockhausen, Serious Poulp, Splotter Spellen, Stonemaier Games, Tasty Minstrel Grames, The 7th Continent, Uwe Rosenberg, Viticulture, Vlaada Chvátil, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games, Zman Games
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