Posted on May 22, 2026
by whovian223
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Recently I was watching a boardgame Youtube video about the creator’s top 10 things that they don’t like in games (sorry, I don’t remember who it was or I would link to them). One of these “things he avoids” was “limited communication in games.”… Continue Reading “I’m Not Talking to You – Games Where You Can’t Communicate”
Category: Board Games, OpinionTags: 2-Player Games, Cooperative Games, Kosmos, Limited communication games, Lunch Time Games, Pandasaurus Games, Scorpion Masqué, Sky Team, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, The Game, The Gang, Trick-taking games
Posted on May 18, 2026
by whovian223
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One of the more recent tropes in cooperative games is the idea that players can’t talk to each other. This removes the alpha gamer issue and also can make the game more interesting. Sometimes, thematically, it makes no sense, but you can’t have everything.… Continue Reading “The Silent Cockpit – Sky Team Review”
Posted on April 22, 2026
by whovian223
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I hope you’re enjoying my weekly look at games ranked on Boardgame Geek that aren’t in the Top 1000. I know I’m enjoying writing them, because I love the discussion they can cause (though sadly not last week, because I left two hooks in… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2601-2700”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Area Control, Avalon Hill, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Comancheria, Conquest of Paradise, Cryptozoic, Dual Powers, Epic Spell Wars, Exploration, Fantasy Flight Games, First Fish Games, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Mistwind, Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars, Pick Up & Deliver, Push Your Luck Games, Solo Games, Team Games, The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus, Thunderworks Games, Victory in the Pacific, Wargames
Posted on April 3, 2026
by whovian223
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Since I wanted to get another post done this week and it’s going to take way too long to do anything else I wanted to do, it’s time for the weekly look at the Boardgame Geek rankings, century by century! Last week was really… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2401-2500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Alderac, Archaeology: the Card Game, Auction Games, Betting, Big G Creative, Bob Ross: Art of Chill, Card Games, Card-Crafting Games, CMON, Codenames: Deep Undercover, Custom Heroes, Cutthroat Caverns, Czech Games Edition, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Ethnos: 2nd Edition, Fort Circle Games, Iello Games, Jorvik, Lotus, Lunch Time Games, Northstar Games, Party Games, Pax Pamir, Renegade Games Studios, Scrabble, Semi-cooperative Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Sierra Madre Games, Smirk & Dagger Games, Stronghold Games, Votes for Women, Wits & Wagers: It's Vegas Baby, Z-Man Games
Posted on March 27, 2026
by whovian223
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Each week when I do these BGG Top Games posts, I comment about how things are getting a little thin down here in the 2000s. It’s like you’re scuba diving and suddenly your air tank is reading as near empty and you don’t know… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2301-2400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Block Wargames, Claim 2, Columbia Games, Great Western Trail: El Paso, Harbour, John Company 1st Edition, La Granja: No Siesta, Light Speed: Arena, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Real-Time Games, Resource Management, Roll and Write Games, Rommel in the Desert, Sierra Madre Games, Stronghold Games, Tablescope, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Trick-taking games, Wargames, White Goblin Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on March 19, 2026
by whovian223
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Has it been a year already since last year’s Terminal City convention? Why yes, yes it has. This year’s event was still down at the Vancouver Convention Centre on the waterfront, but it changed buildings to a much larger room. This convention-goer approves of… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2026”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Auction Games, Card Games, Container, Cooperative Games, Dungeons & Dragons: Temple of Elemental Evil, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Economic Games, Eggertspiele, Faraway, Fighting Games, Flip 7, Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, ForGames, GameHead, Grand Austria Hotel, Harvest, Kosmos, Long Shot: The Dice Game, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Pandasaurus Games, Perplext, Power Struggle, Push Your Luck Games, Roll and Write Games, Scorpion Masqué, Speakeasy, Tag Team, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, The Game, The Gang, The Op, Trinket Trove, Valley Games, Vital Lacerda, Wizards of the Coast, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games
Posted on March 11, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s been a short hiatus for these posts since I’ve had end of month stuff to do, but after a couple of weeks, we are back! Once again we are going through a century of games rated on Boardgame Geek, from 2101 to 2200.… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2101 – 2200”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Age of War, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Blam!, Brotherwise Games, Card-Driven Game, Chakra, COIN Games, Colonial Twilight, Daitoshi, Devir, Dice-rolling, Empire's End, Fantasy Flight Games, Favor of the Pharaoh, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Molly House, Rondel Games, Set Collection Games, Sports Games, Strat-O-Matic Baseball, The Expanse, Wehrlegig Games, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games
Posted on February 4, 2026
by whovian223
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Now we’ve gone and done it. We’ve now reached the Top 10 games of all time, played by me at least. It’s been an incredible 5 weeks (ok, 6, but last week’s Friday post was important) of new games, oldies dropping in the rankings,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#10-1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Ark Nova, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Chad Jensen, Christian Leonard, Civolution, Combat Commander: Europe, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice Drafting, Dice Placement, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Jason Matthews, Lisboa, Lookout Games, Mathias Wigge, Pegasus Spiele, Prodigals Club, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Stefan Feld, Tableau-building, Virginio Gigli, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Vital Lacerda, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 19, 2026
by whovian223
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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, 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
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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: 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