Posted on July 4, 2024
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Sometimes watching Youtube is dangerous. I’m not talking about when you look up “how to cook a S’More on the car fire that you happened upon on Highway 1.” That’s pretty dangerous and I don’t recommend it. No, I don’t speak from experience, why… Continue Reading “Ships That Pass in the Night – For Points!”
Posted on July 2, 2024
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May was a really boring month for new to me games, so much so that I was wondering how I could correct that for June. How about seven? No, that’s no my winning lotto number, though it should be. That’s how many new games… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Andreas "Ode" Odendahl, Andrew Meyer, Bitewing Games, Card Games, Cascadero, Delicious Games, Doomlings, Doomlings LLC, Ezra & Nehemiah, First Fish Games, Garphill Games, Hand Management, Harmonies, Johan Benvenuto, Justus Meyer, La Granja, Libellud, Lunch Time Games, Michael Keller, Reiner Knizia, Route-building, Shem Phillips, Shipyard (2nd Edition), SJ MacDonald, Spielworxx, Stronghold Games, Tile-Laying Games, Town Builder: Coevorden, Vladimír Suchý
Posted on May 17, 2024
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Happy Friday! Apologies for the long lull in posting on here. It’s been a month…and in addition I’ve had a healthy dose of Imposter Syndrome which has kept me from writing much. If you have any suggestions on how to beat that, I’d love… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Some Assembly Required! (Shipyard)”
Posted on April 1, 2024
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Aloha! (Saying this for my friend who’s out on a cruise, even though she’s not technically going to Hawaii but somewhere just as warm). You may be wondering. “Dave, why are you wearing socks with sandals?” I would say that you should just keep… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Alannah Kearney, Allen Chang, Ape Games, Blob Party, Bombyx, Card Games, Card Shedding, Challengers, City Building, Delta, Franz Couderc, Game Brewer, Garphill Games, Gotcha Gotcha Games, Ikhwan Kwon, Johannes Krenner, Kanban: Driver's Edition, Loosey Goosey Games, Lunch Time Games, Markus Slawitscheck, Of What's Left, Pam Walls, Pandasaurus Games, Party Games, Pegasus Spiele, Renegade Games Studios, Rise to Power, Sea Salt & Paper, Set Collection Games, Shem Phillips, Shipwrights of the North Sea - Redux, Stronghold Games, Surfosaurus Max, Taylor Reiner, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Track Movement, Vale of Eternity, Vital Lacerda, Word Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on March 13, 2024
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It would be cool to live on the ocean. Beachfront property, your back door opening right onto the beach, listening from your balcony to the ocean waves crash on the shore, watching the lightning from a storm out over the water. That would be… Continue Reading “Review – Underwater Cities”
Posted on February 26, 2024
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It’s the first month of the year! And it’s also almost the end of February. Yes, it took so much energy to get my Top 50 games played of all time done, along with getting sick recently, that we’re into the last week of… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Adam Porter, Alain Epron, Alexander Pfister, BLAM Games, Board & Dice, Card Games, Claim, Clever 4Ever, Cody Miller, Daily Magic Games, Daniel McKinley, David Turczi, Dice Drafting, Economic Games, Eric Zimmerman, Far Off Games, Funforge Games, German Railroads, Guild Academies of Valeria, Helmut Ohley, Helvetiq Games, Hit Me!, I Found Bigfoot, John David Wood, Kompromat, Leonhard Orgler, Luc Rémond, Lunch Time Games, Matches, Mike A Pratt, Nucleum, Pegasus Spiele, Pick Up & Deliver, Port Royal, Puppy Pile, Push Your Luck Games, Quantum, Quined Games, Rob Fisher, Roll and Write Games, Romaric Galonnier, Russian Railroads, Schmidt Spiele, Scott Almes, Set Collection Games, Simone Luciani, Space Games, Splito, Stan Kordonskiy, Thing 12 Games, Trick-taking games, Tricky Dicks, Vanuatu, White Goblin Games, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Wryknot Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Z-Man Games
Posted on February 11, 2024
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It’s been a long journey getting to this top 10. Not so much in weeks, as these posts have appeared for 5 weeks just like the previous Top 25 did (or they should have, but I’d forgotten that I took a much too long… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#10 – 1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, Action Selection, Ark Nova, Brad Johnson, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Christian Leonard, Clank in Space, Combat Commander: Europe, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice Placement, Dire Wolf Digital, Earth, Engine-building, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Inside Up Games, Jason Matthews, Mathias Wigge, Maxime Tardif, Paul Dennen, Prodigals Club, Renegade Games Studios, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tableau-building, Time of Crisis, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Wray Ferrell
Posted on February 4, 2024
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How our tastes change over time is always kind of interesting to look at. As a kid, I loved Brussels Sprouts! Now, I really really hate them. Ok, I’m kidding…nobody sane likes Brussels Sprouts. But you get my point! Things you like as a… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#20-11)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Amalfi: Renaissance, Andrew Veen, Area Majority, Card Games, Cole Wehrle, ctr, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Deep Water Games, Dice-rolling, Elizabeth Hargrave, Fantastic Factories, Fryx Games, Gale Force 9, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Kayenta Games, Lunch Time Games, Nick Little, Obsession, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Peter Lee, Rio Grande Games, Rodney Thompson, Schadenfreude, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Sydney Engelstein, Sylex, Tableau-building, Takeo Yamada, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Trick-taking games, Tyrants of the Underdark, Underwater Cities, Vladimír Suchý, Wehrlegig Games, Wingspan, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 26, 2024
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As the rain continues to fall here in Vancouver (though at the time of writing, it’s actually not at the moment!), it’s incredibly nice of you to come visit and spend a little time at the bar catching up and discussing board games with… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Disliking Popular Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Agricola, Caverna, Deckbuilders, Dominion, Gaia Project, Puerto Rico, Race for the Galaxy, Temple Gates Games, Terra Mystica, Trickerion
Posted on January 21, 2024
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Two weeks and two entries into this list. Maybe I’ll be able to actually do this weekly, unlike in 2022! It was interesting doing a Top 50 rather than a Top 25. Some games have fallen enough that they wouldn’t even be listed if… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#40-31)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Alderac, Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, Block Wargames, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Contracts, Cosmodrome Games, Daily Magic Games, Darwin's Journey, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Economic Games, Eilif Svensson, Formal Ferret Games, Garphill Games, Gil Hova, GMT Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Helge Meissner, Ivan Lashin, John D Clair, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Nestore Mangone, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Ravensburger, Renegade Games Studios, Revive, Richard Borg, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Smartphone Inc, Space Base, Stan Kordonskiy, Stefan Feld, The Networks, Thundergryph Games, Tile-Laying Games, Virginio Gigli, Wargames