Posted on June 3, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s week 4 of my weekly look at the Boardgame Geek Top 100 games to see how many I’ve played and how many I even want to play. It’s a rather blah week, for a lot of reasons, but also just because there aren’t… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 70-61”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Adam Carlson, Alexander Pfister, Area Control, Bluffing, Board & Dice, Card Drafting, Chip Theory Games, CMON, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Crokinole, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dexterity Games, Dice-rolling, Dominion, Dominion: Intrigue, Donald X. Vaccarino, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, El Grande, Eldritch Horror, Eric Lang, Fantasy Flight Games, Josh J. Carlson, Lisboa, Miniatures, Mombasa, Nikki Valens, Richard Ulrich, Rio Grande Games, Rising Sun, Rondel Games, Teotihuacan, Too Many Bones, Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition, Vital Lacerda, Wolfgang Kramer, Worker Placement Games
Posted on May 27, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s week 3 of our weekly look through the Boardgame Geek Top 100 to see what games I’ve played and which ones I may be interested in playing. Last week I got educated about Dominion, maybe even enough to try it again some day. What… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 80-71”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Aeon's End, Agricola, Alain Orban, Architects of the West Kingdom, Battlestar Galactica, Card Games, CodeNames, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Helmut Ohley, Hidden Traitor, Indie Boards & Cards, Kevin Riley, Leonhard Orgler, Lookout Games, Marvel Champsions: the Card Game, Party Games, Patchwork, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, Roll for the Galaxy, Russian Railroads, Sébastien Dujardin, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tile-Laying Games, Tom Lehmann, Train Games, Troyes, Uwe Rosenberg, Vlaada Chvátil, Wei-Hwa Huang, Worker Placement Games, Xavier Georges, Zman Games
Posted on May 20, 2020
by whovian223
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With the previous post in this series doing so well, I guess I should do more of them and finish the job, eh? Last week’s post was a lot of fun and I got some great feedback. Thanks to those of you who stopped… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 90-81”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dominion, Donald X. Vaccarino, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Guillaume Montiage, Jacques Bariot, Jason Little, Jesús Torres Castro, Kemet, Mancala games, Matagot, Matt Leacock, Miniatures, North Star Games, Pandemic, Pandemic: Iberia, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Raiders of the North Sea, Reiner Knizia, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, Shem Phillips, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases, Space Cowboys, Star Wars: X-Wing, Stefan Feld, Take-That games, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tigris & Euphrates, Tile-Laying Games, Trajan, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Zman Games
Posted on May 14, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s no secret that I’ve been in a bit of blog doldrums over the last couple of weeks. The social isolation and not playing many games (none until last weekend, actually) except the apps that I do asynchronously, plus getting really busy at work… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 100-91”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Adam Sadler, Alchemists, App-related, Bernd Brunnhofer, Champions of Midgard, Clank in Space, Clank in Space: Apocalypse, Clank in Space: Cyber Station 11, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Cranio Creations, Crossroads, Czech Games Edition, Daniel Clark, Dead of Winter, Deckbuilders, Descent: Journeys into the Dark (2nd Edition), Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dungeon Crawl, Fantasy Flight Games, Flaminia Brasini, Forbidden Stars, Grand Austria Hotel, Grey Fox Games, Hisashi Hayashi, Isaac Vega, James Kniffen, Jonathan Gilmour, Kevin Wilson, Lookout Games, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Matúš Kotry, Ole Steiness, One vs Many, Paul Dennen, Plaid Hat Games, Renegade Games Studios, Samuel Bailey, Simone Luciani, Stone Age, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Virginio Gigli, Worker Placement Games, Yokohama, Zman Games
Posted on January 8, 2020
by whovian223
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Whew! After telling you the first half of my Top 10 games played in 2019, I needed a break. Being surrounded by all that awesomeness can be tiring! But now I’m back with the bottom half of the list. These are the 5 best… Continue Reading “Top 10 Games Played in 2019 (5-1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, Andrew Veen, Architects of the West Kingdom, Area Control, Brad Johnson, Card-Driven Game, Christian Leonard, Cole Wehrle, Deckbuilders, Gale Force 9, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Jason Matthews, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Peter Lee, Renegade Games Studios, Rodney Thompson, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tableau-building, Time of Crisis, Tyrants of the Underdark, Wehrlegig Games, Worker Placement Games, Wray Ferrell
Posted on January 6, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s that time of year again! Time to look back at 2019 and see what games I played this year and which ones I definitely want to play again. Also, which ones can be left by the side of the road looking all forlorn… Continue Reading “Top 10 Games Played in 2019 (10-6)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Clank in Space, Clank in Space: Apocalypse, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Formal Ferret Games, Frosted Games, Fryx Games, Garphill Games, Gil Hova, Jacob Fryxelius, Lunch Time Games, Matthias Cramer, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Paul Dennen, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Terraforming Mars, The Networks, The Networks: the Executives, Watergate, Worker Placement Games
Posted on February 14, 2019
by whovian223
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Happy Valentine’s Day! What a fitting day to share the love I have for my Top 5 Games. We’ve reached the end, those of you who have been holding your breath to see what my Top 5 games played are. Hopefully you didn’t hold… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time (5-1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andrew Veen, Architects of the West Kingdom, Area Control, Brad Johnson, Clank in Space, Clank in Space: Apocalypse, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Formal Ferret Games, Gale Force 9, Garphill Games, Gil Hova, GMT Games, Paul Dennen, Peter Lee, Renegade Games Studios, Rodney Thompson, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, The Networks, The Networks: the Executives, Time of Crisis, Tyrants of the Underdark, Worker Placement Games, Wray Ferrell
Posted on February 12, 2019
by whovian223
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We’ve now entered the Top 10 Zone (it’s nowhere near as scary as the Friend Zone) That’s right, the Top 10 Games I’ve Played of All Time (capitalization is very important here). These are some amazing games, and if you follow me on Twitter… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time (10-6)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Asymmetric Games, Azul, CMON, Cole Wehrle, Czech Games Edition, Fryx Games, Gizmos, Jacob Fryxelius, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Michael Kiesling, Next Move Games, Phil Walker-Harding, Plan B Games, Prodigals Club, Root, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Terraforming Mars, Tile-Laying Games, Vladimír Suchý
Posted on February 7, 2019
by whovian223
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After a steady couple of days (thanks, Reddit!), it’s time to get back to the real business of this blog. That’s right, fashion shows board games! Apologies for the delay in getting back to the Best Games Played of All Time after a rollicking… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time (15-11)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Board & Dice, Card-Driven Game, Czech Games Edition, Daniele Tascini, Fort Sumter, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Last Will, London, Lunch Time Games, Mark Herman, Martin Wallace, NSKN Games, Osprey Games, Raiders of the North Sea, Renegade Games Studios, Rondel Games, Shem Phillips, Tableau-building, Teotihuacan, Vladimír Suchý, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 22, 2019
by whovian223
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It’s been almost three years in the making, but I almost hit 300 games played since I started recording plays and I thought it would be a great idea to give you what my top 25 games played are. Thanks to Pub Meeple for… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time (25-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andreas Steding, Bezier Games, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Diamonds, Gugong, Merchant of Venus, Mike Fitzgerald, Pick Up & Deliver, Ravensburger, Richard Hamblen, Stefan Feld, Stronghold Games, Suburbia, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Ted Alspach, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
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