Posted on January 10, 2023
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OrcaCon is a convention held in Bellevue, Washington in January every year. Sadly, I wasn’t able to go last year and the two years before that…well, something happened. I’m not really sure what. I went to my first OrcaCon in January 2020 and then… Continue Reading “OrcaCon 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Alexander Pfister, Andrew Parks, Atlas Games, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Bluffing, Calico, Card Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Charioteer, CMON, Contracts, Core Worlds, David Fooden, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, Elizabeth Hargrave, Engine-building, Gizmos, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Kevin Russ, Lunch Time Games, Matt Calkins, Monster Couch, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Nick Little, Nicolas Robert, On Mars, Pearl Games, Phil Walker-Harding, Racing Game, Rondel Games, Seals of Cthulhu, Sean Epperson, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, The Bloody Inn, Thing 12 Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wingspan, Wingspan: Asia, Wingspan: European Expansion, Wingspan: Oceania expansion, Yukon Salon
Posted on December 27, 2021
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Have you ever wanted to just get slammed upside the head repeatedly by a deck of cards? No, just me? Well, it’s a good thing that you probably don’t suck at Maracaibo as much as I do, so you’ll probably actually enjoy not having… Continue Reading “App Review – Maracaibo”
Posted on April 21, 2021
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(Edit: 12/6/21 – We have a release date! It’s coming on December 20. So soon!!! Here’s another screenshot. (Edit: 10/7/21 – Spiralburst Studio has released a couple more screenshots and a preview video! Here’s the video And here are a couple of screenshots. No… Continue Reading “Maracaibo – Digital Coming Soon!”
Posted on September 2, 2020
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When I began this series about the Boardgame Geek rankings and talking about the games in them, I didn’t think it would be this difficult. The Top 100 was pretty static. So when I spent the first part of the week putting all of… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #190-181”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1830: Railways & Robber Barons, 18XX, Abstract Games, Alexander Pfister, Andreas Pelikan, Andrew Veen, Area Control, Cambridge Game Factory, Card Drafting, Card Games, Carl Chudyk, Cartographers: a Roll Player Tale, Cédrick Chaboussit, Darwin Kastle, Deckbuilders, Economic Games, Ed Carter, Francis Tresham, Friedemann Friese, Gale Force 9, Gamewright Games, Glory to Rome, Hand Management, Hero Realms, HUCH Games, Isle of Skye, Jordy Adan, Kris Burm, Lewis & Clark: the Expedition, Line-Drawing Games, Lookout Games, Ludonaute, Peter Lee, Phil Walker-Harding, Power Grid Deluxe, Racing Game, Ravensburger, Reiner Knizia, Rio Grande Games, Robert Dougherty, Rodney Thompson, Sushi Go Party, The Quest for El Dorado, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tyrants of the Underdark, YINSH
Posted on August 28, 2020
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How about a little news for the last day of my vacation? *sniff* Sorry, let me just absorb that sentence again. *sob* Anyway, yesterday it was announced that Maracaibo, a 2019 game published by Board & Dice, designed by Alexander Pfister with art by… Continue Reading “Maracaibo Coming to Digital!”
Posted on August 3, 2020
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It’s been almost 4 weeks since the last post in this series looking at the Top 100 Games ranked on Boardgame Geek. I was riding high, feeling all the love the series was creating and posting something almost every week day. And then I… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Play or Played – #10-1”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Alexander Pfister, Ananda Gupta, Brass: Birmingham, Campaign Games, Card-Driven Game, Cephalofair Games, Christian T. Petersen, Civilization Building, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Dane Beltrami, Deckbuilders, Economic Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Gaia Project, Gavan Brown, Gloomhaven, GMT Games, Great Western Trail, Helge Ostertag, Isaac Childress, Jacob Fryxelius, Jason Matthews, Jens Drogemuller, Martin Wallace, Matt Leacock, Matt Tolman, Pandemic: Legacy Season 1, Rob Daviau, Roxley Games, Star Wars: Rebellion, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization, Twilight Imperium : 4th Edition, Twilight Struggle, Vlaada Chvátil, 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
Posted on January 3, 2020
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Happy New Year! As we start the new year here at the Cult of the New to Me, we want to look back at the previous month, because looking back is what we do! That’s right. We never talk about the new to me… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alexander Pfister, Bluffing, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Crowd Games, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dice Placement, Exploration, Filip Miłuński, Granna Games, Great Western Trail, Great Western Trail: Rails to the North, Hurrican Games, Lunch Time Games, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Nagaraja, North Star Games, Simone Luciani, Space Explorers, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Théo Rivière, The Taverns of Tiefenthal, Tile-Laying Games, Warsaw: City of Ruins, Wolfgang Warsch, Yuri Zhuravljov, Zman Games
Posted on October 1, 2019
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It had been a quiet September at Dude Central. There was a birthday party that nobody came to (it’s not my fault I accidentally put September 9, 2018 on the invitations. How was I supposed to know that everybody would actually look at the… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alea, Alexander Pfister, Area Control, Benjamin Schwer, Blackout: Hong Kong, Chariot Race, Civilization Building, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, George Skourtis, Hadara, Hans im Gluck, Lunch Time Games, Macao, Matt Leacock, Nocturion, Pegasus Spiele, Racing Game, Ravensburger, Resource Management, Stefan Feld, Vesuvius Media, Zman Games
Posted on January 25, 2019
by whovian223
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As a relatively new board game blogger (less than 2 years, and just hitting 200 posts), I sometimes don’t feel right making “Top 10” lists. The number of games I’ve played, in relative terms, would probably not even fit in Tom Vasel’s pinky finger… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time (20-16)”
Category: Board GamesTags: Adventure Games, Alderac, Alexander Pfister, Area Control, Blood Bowl Team Manager, Corey Konieczka, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Fantasy Flight Games, Great Western Trail, J. Alex Kevern, Jason Little, John D Clair, Lunch Time Games, Nikki Valens, Renegade Games Studios, Set Collection Games, Space Base, Stronghold Games, Worlds Fair 1893
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