Tag: Auction 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 March 20, 2025
by whovian223
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Last weekend was the 10th (maybe 11th?) annual Terminal City Tabletop Convention (though I guess it was interrupted by COVID so not actually 11?). I have to say it was probably the best yet. In previous years, the people running it didn’t do the… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2025”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Auction Games, Bombyx, Brotherwise Games, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Catch Up Games, CMYK, Cooperative Games, CuBirds, Czech Games Edition, Deduction, Dice Placement, Empire's End, Fantastic Factories, Faraway, Finspan, Firestarter Games, Fives, Garphill Games, Huch & Friends, Kosmos, Living Forest, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, Metafactory Games, Mighty Boards, Multi-use cards, Oink Games, Orapa Mine, Pandasaurus Games, Playte, Push Your Luck Games, Rajas of the Ganges: Cards & Karma, Rebirth, Reforest, Repos Games, Resource Management, Scholars of the South Tigris, SCOUT, Sea Salt & Paper, Secrets, Set Collection Games, SETI, Social Deduction Games, Stonemaier Games, The Gang, Tile-Laying Games, Toy Battle, Trick-taking games
Posted on October 7, 2024
by whovian223
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This post has been a bit delayed, for reasons. Some of those reasons were me killing a whole bunch of Greek soldiers in Ancient Egypt in Assassin’s Creed: Origins, which is super-addicting right now. The game, not the killing. I’m fighting for Cleopatra! Or… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2024”
Category: Board GamesTags: Arcane Wonders, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Christopher Wray, Comic Hunters, Dice Placement, Emerson Matsuuchi, Foundations of Metropolis, Garphill Games, HUCH Games, Inventors of the South Tigris, Keyflower, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Breese, Robert Coelho, Set Collection Games, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Spin Master Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games, Xylotar
Posted on October 1, 2024
by whovian223
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September was a weird month for gaming, mainly because we didn’t play a lot at work because various people were away (or we just were so exhausted due to work stuff that we just wanted to hibernate at lunch). Thus, most (but not all)… Continue Reading “September 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Auction Games, BG Stats, Board & Dice, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Combat Commander: Pacific, Devir, Doomlings, Doomlings LLC, Faraway, GMT Games, Jackie Fox, Lunch Time Games, Renegade Games Studios, Rock Hard 1977, Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan: Expansion Period, Vale of Eternity, Vegas Showdown, Worker Placement Games
Posted on August 5, 2024
by whovian223
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I knew July would be a bit of an off month for gaming, but it wasn’t too bad. However, it didn’t really hit the “new to me games” jackpot, with only three of them to write about. Funny how it’s still taken me longer… Continue Reading “New to Me – July 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alderac, AllPlay, Auction Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Couture, David Short, Ground Floor, Josh Wood, Let's Go to Japan, Lunch Time Games, Set Collection Games, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Worker Placement Games, 佐藤 雄介 (Yusuke Sato)
Posted on June 18, 2024
by whovian223
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There’s something about chains in games that is just so cool, even though they burn my brain sometimes. I’m not talking about actual chains, of course. That would be terrible. Unless you’re into that sort of thing, in which case who am I to… Continue Reading “Review – Furnace”
Posted on May 8, 2024
by whovian223
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I would make a bad emperor, I think. I’m not the quickest of thinkers, and when disasters happen (as they always seem to), sometimes you have to be quick on your feet, dealing with the situation at a moment’s notice. The perks would be… Continue Reading “Review – Empire’s End”
Posted on May 1, 2024
by whovian223
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After a March that was a literal cornucopia of new games (yes, literal, they were all about fruit and veggies!), April was a really hard month for new to me games (and games in general, but that’s tomorrow’s post). Until last Sunday, I only… Continue Reading “New to Me – April 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Adam Wyse, Area Control, Auction Games, Feuerland Spiele, Gavan Brown, Glass Road, Resource Management, Roxley Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Skyrise, Uwe Rosenberg
Posted on December 22, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s the last Friday before Christmas and all through the malls, too many creatures were stirring, so much so that I would rather carve Shem Phillips’ initials into my hand with a penknife than go shopping. I think that’s how that old Christmas poem… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Catch Up Mechanisms”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Auction Games, Cryptozoic, Daily Magic Games, DC Comics Deck-Building Game, Dice Drafting, Food Chain Magnate, Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism and Other Ideas, Formal Ferret Games, GMT Games, Isle of Skye, Mayfair Games, Power Grid, Rio Grande Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Splotter Spellen, The Networks, Twilight Struggle, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Worker Placement Games
Posted on October 1, 2023
by whovian223
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As 2023 steamrolls ahead, another month of gaming is complete! September actually was a slight step back from August, even though I didn’t miss any game days! However, there were fewer days at work where we had lunch free to play. In addition to… Continue Reading “September 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Auction Games, Brad Johnson, Card Drafting, Cube4Me, Deckbuilders, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Molly Johnson, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Point Salad, Ra - The Game, Rally the Troops, Renegade Games Studios, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Time of Crisis, Time of Crisis: The Age of Iron and Rust, Wargames, Wray Ferrell