Tag: Alderac
Posted on October 22, 2026
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A day’s delay, so I hope nobody’s gone blue holding their breath for this post. I’ll try to do better next week! These Boardgame Geek century of boardgame rankings posts are still getting some great reactions for me. Always love it when somebody in… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 5101 – 5200”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 13 Leaves, 2-Player Games, Alderac, Banish the Snakes, Bluffing, Brass Pittsburgh, Card Games, Card Shedding, Cardcassone, CMYK, Cooperative Games, Dice-rolling, Duel of Meloch, Economic Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Forest Shuffle - Smoky Mountains, GMT Games, I'm Out, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Player Elimination, Rio Grande Games, Roxley Games, Slugfest Games, Smash Up, Smash Up World Tour: Culture Shock, Smile, Solo Games, Stalingrad Pocket, Star Trek: Missions, Stonemaier Games, The Red Dragon Inn 7: The Tavern Crew, Wargames, Wizkids, X-Men: Mutant Insurrection, Z-Man Games
Posted on October 14, 2026
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We’re now on the downward slope heading to the 10,000 level of games ranked on Boardgame Geek. Yet there are still some decent ones down here! That just goes to show you that a low-ranked game does not necessarily mean it is bad. Of… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 5001 – 5100”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Alderac, AllPlay, Amigo Spiel, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, Card Games, Compass Games, Dance of Ibexes, Duel of Meloch, Enemy Action: Kharkov, Forest Shuffle - Smoky Mountains, Game Makers, GMT Games, Hand Management, I Cut You Choose, I Made You a Mixtape, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Massive Asterisk, Mixlore, Multi-use cards, Oddland, Peloponnesian War, Ramen Fury, Set Collection Games, Smash Up World Tour: International Incident, Solo Games, Stonemaier Games, Thebai, Tile-Laying Games, Variable Player Powers, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket
Posted on October 5, 2026
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September looked like it was going to be very dry in the “new to me games” system, with only one going into the last two weeks. Once again, Abi saves the day! Getting five new to me games played in the last two weeks… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alderac, Alexi Piovesan, AllPlay, Automobiles, Capstone Games, Cooperative Games, David Short, Dewan, Dice-rolling, Falling, Jamie Bloom, Julien Prothière, Kentaro Yazawa (矢沢 賢太郎), Libellud, Life of the Amazonia, Lunch Time Games, Racing Game, Set Collection Games, Space Cowboys, Take Time, Tiny Mountain Goats, Track Movement
Posted on October 2, 2026
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We’ve all played those games before. The games where just sitting there playing the game, using the mechanisms (card drafting, worker placement, whatever) and you just think “this isn’t really that different than (fill in the blank) and it’s kind of boring.” But then… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Games Where the “Extras” Make the Game Better”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night Shots, OpinionTags: Alderac, Bohemians, Card Drafting, Deckbuilders, Devir, Jackie Fox, Let's Go to Japan, Portal Games, Rock Hard 1977, Story-driven Games, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on October 1, 2026
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My September gaming wasn’t quite as huge as August, but it was still pretty good. For a while there, I thought my “new to me” games would amount to one, but then Abi showed up for a couple of Sundays and I was then… Continue Reading “September 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: 2-Player Games, Action Points, Action Selection, Alderac, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Card Games, Combat Commander, Czech Games Edition, Drafting Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Fliptoons, Galaxy Trucker, GMT Games, Into the Machine, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Real-Time Games, Scorpion Masqué, Suburbia, Tag Team, The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on September 16, 2026
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After a week where I literally had not played any of the games in the Boardgame Geek century I was talking about, this week is going to be huge! Well, maybe not huge, but we’re back to at least a few. That will probably… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4601-4700”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Alderac, Auf Teufel Komm Raus, Betting, Board & Dice, Card Games, COIN Games, Downfall, Drafting Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Entropy, France '40, GMT Games, Heavy Cardboard, Looney Labs, Lost Legends, Lunch Time Games, People Power, Pirate Fluxx, Queen Games, Railways of the World: The Card Game, Rondel Games, Set Collection Games, Smash Up: Marvel, Solo Games, The Hunted: Twilight of the U-Boats, Wargames
Posted on September 11, 2026
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Last week, I talked about people intentionally breaking a game by doing something that doesn’t change the game state. In the post, I referenced everybody in a game of Terraforming Mars just passing as their first action, which doesn’t do anything to make the… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – The Art of the Pass”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Alderac, Concordia, Cranio Creations, Czech Games Edition, Devir, Fryx Games, Garphill Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Into the Machine, Inventors of the South Tigris, Lookout Games, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Rio Grande Games, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Tapestry, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: the Dice Game, The White Castle, Wayfarers of the South Tigris
Posted on September 9, 2026
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We have reached the midway point of the 4000s in the Boardgame Geek game rankings, and we have also hit another milestone. I have not played or do not own any of the games in this century. I know I said originally that I… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4501 – 4600”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1 vs Many games, Alderac, Avalon Hill, Capstone Games, Card Games, Cascadia: Alpine Lakes, Catherine: The Cities of the Tsarina, Cooperative Games, Cosmic Encounter, D-Day at Peleliu, Decision Games, Drafting Games, DVG Games, Flatout Games, Fliptoons Season 2, Hidden Movement, KuZOOkA, Last Friday, Lunch Time Games, Negotiation Games, Pegasus Spiele, Pendragon Game Studio, Phantom Leader, Rondel Games, Scorpius Freighter, Set Collection Games, Solo Games, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on September 8, 2026
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After last month where I said that my “new to me games” list was slacking off a bit in 2026, August managed to bring six new games to the table! That still only puts me at 46 new games where last year was 84.… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Area Majority, Blue Orange Games, Dark Pact, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dimitri Perrier, Explor8, Federation, Got Five!, Hanami, Into the Machine, Kasper Lapp, Keymaster Games, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Matthieu Verdier, Racing Game, Reiner Knizia, The Crew: Journey to the Ends of the Earth, Thomas Sing, Tom Lehmann, Trick or Treat Studios, Trick-taking games, Yoann Levet
Posted on September 7, 2026
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There’s something to be said for a game where you’re not chasing the usual points to win the game. Where you’re just doing something and hoping you’ll win the game. Of course, a good game won’t have you hoping. It will instead let you… Continue Reading “Racing Robots – Into the Machine Review”