Posted on September 29, 2026
by whovian223
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Even closer to 5000 on the Boardgame Geek ranking system, the pickings of played games are getting slim! Not so slim that it would keep me from doing another in this series of posts, because it’s so goddamned fun to talk about games, both… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4801 – 4900”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Advanced Third Reich, America - Trivia Game, Area Control, Area Majority, Avalon Hill, Bezier Games, Blitz Bowl - Ultimate Edition, Blue Panther Games, City of Gears, Compass Games, Cooperative Games, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Engine-building, Family Games, Fireside Games, Games Workshop, Grey Fox Games, Grid Movement, Horizons, Land and Freedom, Legends of the Void, Lunch Time Games, My First Castle Panic, Party Games, Semi-cooperative Games, The Lamps are Going Out, Twoid Games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on September 8, 2026
by whovian223
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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 August 26, 2026
by whovian223
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Welcome to another look at a century of Boardgame Geek game rankings! These posts have been really cool for me because of the conversations they’ve started with friends and colleagues, but they’ve usually had at least a few games that I’ve played and can… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4301 – 4400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 12 Rivers, 2-Player Games, Area Majority, Ascension, Auction Games, Avalon Hill, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, Canasta, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Deckbuilders, Donning the Purple, Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcom, First Fish Games, Founders of Teotihuacan, Gift of the Elements, Good Games Publishing, Hanami, IV Studio, Keymaster Games, Liberation Game Design, Lunch Time Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Realm of Reckoning, Roll and Move, Stoneblade, Storm Over Stalingrad, Subdivision, Talisman 5th Edition, The Korean War, Tile-Laying Games, Tompet Games, Town Builder: Coevorden, Victory Games, Wargames
Posted on August 19, 2026
by whovian223
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The last century of the BGG Top Games list was actually not too bad. Lots of nostalgic wargames for me, plus having played a few of the really cool games on the list. Still, the number of games played wasn’t the largest. Will this… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4201 – 4300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 11 Nimmt!, Amigo Spiel, Area Majority, Auction Games, Bitewing Games, Card Games, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, DOG, Drafting Games, EGO, Garphill Games, GMT Games, I Napoleon, Legendary: Big Trouble in Little China, Lunch Time Games, Minerva, Multi-Man Publishing, Pandasaurus Games, Push Your Luck Games, Schmidt Spiele, Shifting Sands, Shipwrights of the North Sea, Siege of Valeria, Smash Up: That 70s Expansion, Solo Games, Team Games, Tower Defense, Upper Deck, Wargames, Welcome to Centerville
Posted on March 21, 2026
by whovian223
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As we get further and further down the BGG rankings, the pickings are becoming increasingly slim. But it’s also made me think a little bit, considering some of the games that show up in each century. I know, thinking is dangerous, especially for me.… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2201 – 2300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 5 Minute Marvel, Alderac, Area Control, Area Majority, Ascension, Ascension: Rise of Vigil, Avalon Hill, B-17: Queen of the Skies, Caesar's Empire, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Cease and Desist, Citrus, City of Iron, Civilization Building, Cooperative Games, Deckbuilders, DLP Games, Dragonfire, GMT Games, Hearts, Holy Grail Games, Levy & Campaign Series, Nevsky, Real-Time Games, Red Raven Games, Route-building, Smash Up, Solo Games, Spades, Spielworxx, Spin Master Games, Stoneblade, Unconditional Surrender, Wargames, Weimar, Wizards of the Coast
Posted on December 18, 2025
by whovian223
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I really like how successful these posts have been! There has been some true engagement as people have gone through the lists and talked about their own experiences with them. I know the last post was Sunday, but let’s get back onto that weekly… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1401 Through 1500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Ancient Knowledge, Arcane Wonders, Area Majority, Avalon Hill, Betrayal at Baldur's Gate, Bezier Games, Blacklist Games, Cooperative Games, Dale of Merchants 2, Deckbuilders, DVG Games, Foundations of Metropolis, Hidden Roles, HUCH Games, Iello Games, It's a Wonderful Kingdom, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, Pavlov's House, Pegasus Spiele, Rio Grande Games, Route-building, Royals, Scorpion Masqué, Seas of Strife, Snowdale Design, Star Trek: Captain's Chair, Strasbourg, Street Masters, Tag Team, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vanuatu, Whistle Stop, Wizkids
Posted on November 26, 2025
by whovian223
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Last week’s post talking about some of the games just outside of the Top 1000 on Boardgame Geek seemed to be a big hit. Maybe not in terms of visitors to this site, but with friends of mine, sparking some discussion. In the hopes… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1101 Through 1200 – Thoughts”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: A Study in Emerald, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Area Majority, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Cat Lady, Cooperative Games, Ecos: First Continent, Engine-building, Explorers of the North Sea, Flatout Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Greater Than Games, Here I Stand, Linko!, Lunch Time Games, Majesty for the Realm, Point City, Racing Game, Resist!, Salt & Pepper Games, Science Fiction Double Feature, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition, Set Collection Games, Solo Games, Thunder Alley, Tile-Laying Games, Treefrog Games, Virgin Queen, Worlds Fair 1893, Z-Man Games
Posted on October 3, 2025
by whovian223
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I love months where I play a bunch of games that I have no experience with. September gaming was great for the number of plays, but even better for the new to me games that I got to play! I especially love it when… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 3 Chapters, 5 Minute Marvel, Action Selection, ADC Blackfire Entertainment, AllPlay, Amigo Spiel, Area Control, Area Majority, Auction Games, Bag Building, Ben Eisner, Bitewing Games, Bomb Busters, Calimala, Card Drafting, Card Games, Connor Reid, Corné van Moorsel, Deduction, Dennis Northcott, Drafting Games, Druid City Games, Ecosystem: Coral Reef, EGO, Etherstone, Fabio Lopiano, Galactic Cruise, Genius Games, Hisashi Hayashi, Ian Moss, Joe Hout, Kinson Key Games, Koltin Thompson, Korea Boardgames, Lunch Time Games, Matt Simpson, Pegasus Spiele, Real-Time Games, Reiner Knizia, Simone Luciani, T.K. King, Thundergryph Games, Tim Eisner, Trick-taking games, Virginio Gigli, Waddle, Wonderland's War, Worker Placement Games
Posted on February 3, 2025
by whovian223
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Another year and another month of new to me games. It’s 2025 now and things are still going strong on the new to me front, with four whole new ones this last month! No first impressions posts this time, though, so I’ll be talking… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Akropolis, Arcs, Area Majority, Card Drafting, Card Games, Castle Combo, Catch Up Games, Cole Wehrle, Gigamic, Grégory Grard, Jules Messaud, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Mathieu Roussel, Mob Plus, Panda Panda, Set Collection Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, 宮野 華也 (Kaya Miyano)
Posted on February 4, 2024
by whovian223
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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