Posted on October 6, 2022
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Last weekend, for the first time in almost three years, I actually went to a game convention. COVID really did put a damper on things. SHUX is the Shut Up & Sit Down gaming convention held at the Convention Centre in my home town… Continue Reading “SHUX 2022 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Alderac, Alea, Andreas Schmidt, Ark Nova, Ben Eisner, Betting, Bezier Games, Blitzkrieg!, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Cédric Lefebvre, Christophe Raimbault, Colt Super Express, Cory Jones, Czech Games Edition, Deep Water Games, Devil Dice Games, Dominic Crapuchettes, Duel Games, Eggertspiele, Epic Spell Wars: Annihilageddon, Fantastic Factories, Finca, Gabriele Bubola, Gudetama: The Tricky Egg Card Games, John D Clair, Joseph Z Chen, Jump Drive, Justin D. Jacobson, Justin Faulkner, Kei Kajino, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Mathias Wigge, Matt Dunn, Matt Hyra, Merchants of Dunhuang, Michael Kiesling, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Northstar Games, Oink Games, Oni Games, Paolo Mori, Prodigals Club, Programmed Movement, PSC Games, Ral zur Linde, Ravensburger, Ready Set Bet, Restoration Games, Rio Grande Games, Rob Daviau, Rondel Games, SCOUT, Set Collection Games, Space Base, Stefan Feld, Steve Ellis, Tile-Laying Games, Tom Lehmann, Trekking Through History, Underdog Games, Unmatched: Battle of Legends Volume 1, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Wits & Wagers: It's Vegas Baby, Wolfgang Sentker
Posted on August 31, 2022
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August turned out to be a good month for gaming after a smaller July. Not only 30 plays of 22 games, but 11 new to me ones! That means (Gulp!) the “New to Me” post is going to be a bit late this month.… Continue Reading “My August 2022 Gaming”
Category: Board GamesTags: Action Selection, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Chad Jensen, Combat Commander: Europe, Deckbuilders, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Paul Peterson, Renegade Games Studios, Roll and Write Games, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Smash Up, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tom Lehmann, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 8, 2021
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(Edit: This game is on my Top 25 games played of all time!) What happens when one of your favourite games gets a bit of a revamp where it’s faster and also uses some mechanisms from other games that you like? It’s not the… Continue Reading “Review – Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition”
Posted on December 3, 2021
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Welcome to November’s “New to Me” post! You may notice something odd about November. No, it’s not that I had way too much Thanksgiving turkey (THANKSGIVING’S IN OCTOBER, YOU NON-CANADIANS!). It’s that three of the seven entries on this list are from Alderac Entertainment… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2021”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Auction Games, Avalon Hill, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Dice Drafting, Erik Andersson Sundén, Grand Austria Hotel, Henry Stern, Jump Drive, Kosmos, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Molly Johnson, Push Your Luck Games, Rio Grande Games, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich, Simone Luciani, TEN, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, The Op, Thomas Sing, Tom Lehmann, Trick-taking games, Variable Player Powers, Vegas Showdown, Virginio Gigli, Whirling Witchcraft, Wizards of the Coast
Posted on November 29, 2021
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Do you like giving it to one of your opponents, good and hard? By that I mean, of course, by overwhelming them with so much stuff that they can’t cope with it. (What did you think I meant?) Anyway, if you like that sort… Continue Reading “Review – Whirling Witchcraft”
Posted on January 26, 2021
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Given the typical Friday nights that many people are having right now, who wouldn’t want to play a game about cornering the booze market! MOB: Big Apple is a 2-player area control and action selection game that just hit Kickstarter yesterday. It’s designed by… Continue Reading “MOB – Big Apple – On kickstarter now”
Posted on December 9, 2020
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After three weeks or so, it’s time for another entry in the BGG Top 200! We’re almost done, which you would think would mean that I could actually get these done in a timely manner. But, you know, COVID and everything. Yeah, I do… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #130-121”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, A Game of Thrones: the Board Game (2nd Edition), Action Selection, Andreas Steiger, Area Movement, Auction Games, Benoit Turpin, Bezier Games, Brian Lewis, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Christian T. Petersen, Chronicles of Crime, Cooperative Games, David Cicurel, Deduction, Deep Water Games, Dinosaur Island, Don Eskridge, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Glenn Drover, GMT Games, Indie Boards & Cards, Jonathan Gilmour, Kosmos, Lucky Duck Games, Manuel Rozoy, Martin Wallace, Mindclash Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Negotiation Games, Pandasaurus Games, Peggy Chassenet, Railways of the World, Richard Amann, Roll and Write Games, Set Collection Games, Social Deduction Games, Space Cowboys, Storytelling Games, T.I.M.E. Stories, Targi, Ted Alspach, The Resistance: Avalon, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Trickerion, Viktor Peter, Welcome To..., Worker Placement Games
Posted on September 17, 2020
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Until news of the app version for Roll for the Galaxy came out, I hadn’t actually played it in quite a while. I do remember really liking the game, though. As I said in my Top 100 BGG games post, it’s a game that… Continue Reading “App Review – Roll for the Galaxy”
Category: Apps, Board Games, ReviewTags: Action Selection, Android, ios, Rio Grande Games, Roll for the Galaxy, Steam, Temple Gates Games, Tom Lehmann, Wei-Hwa Huang
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
Posted on June 3, 2020
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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
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