Tag: Bezier Games
Posted on July 14, 2023
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Trick-taking games are almost becoming a dime a dozen boardgame commodity. There are so many of them out there that there has to be some kind of hook in order to get them noticed. There’s Brian Boru, for example (which I’ll be talking about… Continue Reading “Review – Cat in the Box”
Posted on June 29, 2023
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With Father’s Day coming in June (here’s a link to the Father’s Day post I made in 2019, the first Father’s Day after my dad passed away), meaning that another Sunday Game Day was cancelled (or moved, but I chose to skip it), I… Continue Reading “June 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Bezier Games, Boardgame Arena, Card Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Charioteer, Combat Commander, Czech Games Edition, Gamewright Games, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Racing Game, Skies Above Britain, Solo Games, Sushi Go Party, Trick-taking games
Posted on June 23, 2023
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Welcome back! Belly up to the bar and let me get you a drink of some kind. Doesn’t have to be booze. It’s Friday again. The week has kind of flown by, though that could be because it feels like I have a million… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Pre-Order Extravaganza!”
Category: Board Games, crowdfunding, Friday Night ShotsTags: 401 Games, Alderac, Avalon Hill, Bezier Games, Boardgame Bliss, CMON, Compass Games, David Thompson, Gamefound, Garphill Games, GMT Games, kickstarter, Marvel Legendary, P500, Resist!, Smash Up, Smash Up: Excellent Movies Dudes, The General, Trevor Benjamin, Western Front Ace
Posted on April 21, 2023
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It’s Friday, so you know what time it is, right? The whiskey along with me looking at Boardgame Geek is making me think about Big Boxes and Collectors boxes and games, which makes for a perfect Friday Night Shots post. Are they worth it?… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Big Boxes, Are They Worth It?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Bezier Games, Board & Dice, Castle Panic Deluxe, Castles of Mad King Ludwig Collector's Edition, Garphill Games, Snowdonia Big Box, Suburbia - Collector's Edition, Teotihuacan Deluxe, The Pursuit of Happiness: Big Box, Viscounts of the West Kingdom
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 November 11, 2022
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October started out really kind of warm and ended really cold and rainy. Welcome to the Pacific Northwest! But it was a good month for gaming. I already told you about the month in general, though, so let’s stick to the stuff that you… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2022”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Aporta Games, Bad Company, Bezier Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Contracts, Cory Jones, Cryptozoic, Deckbuilders, Devil Dice Games, Dice-rolling, Eilif Svensson, Epic Spell Wars: Annihilageddon, Finca, Hand Management, Kenneth Minde, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Matt Dunn, Matt Hyra, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Ralf zur Linde, Rio Grande Games, Rondel Games, Trick-taking games, Underwater Cities, Vladimír Suchý, Wolfgang Sentker, Worker Placement Games
Posted on October 6, 2022
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Last weekend, for the first time in almost three years, I actually went to a game convention. COVID really did put a damper on things. SHUX is the Shut Up & Sit Down gaming convention held at the Convention Centre in my home town… Continue Reading “SHUX 2022 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Alderac, Alea, Andreas Schmidt, Ark Nova, Ben Eisner, Betting, Bezier Games, Blitzkrieg!, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Cédric Lefebvre, Christophe Raimbault, Colt Super Express, Cory Jones, Czech Games Edition, Deep Water Games, Devil Dice Games, Dominic Crapuchettes, Duel Games, Eggertspiele, Epic Spell Wars: Annihilageddon, Fantastic Factories, Finca, Gabriele Bubola, Gudetama: The Tricky Egg Card Games, John D Clair, Joseph Z Chen, Jump Drive, Justin D. Jacobson, Justin Faulkner, Kei Kajino, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Mathias Wigge, Matt Dunn, Matt Hyra, Merchants of Dunhuang, Michael Kiesling, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Northstar Games, Oink Games, Oni Games, Paolo Mori, Prodigals Club, Programmed Movement, PSC Games, Ral zur Linde, Ravensburger, Ready Set Bet, Restoration Games, Rio Grande Games, Rob Daviau, Rondel Games, SCOUT, Set Collection Games, Space Base, Stefan Feld, Steve Ellis, Tile-Laying Games, Tom Lehmann, Trekking Through History, Underdog Games, Unmatched: Battle of Legends Volume 1, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Wits & Wagers: It's Vegas Baby, Wolfgang Sentker
Posted on October 4, 2022
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Hot on the heels of the deluxe edition of The Castles of Mad King Ludwig (well, hot on the heels of receiving it, anyway), Bezier Games has announced an upcoming expansion that will be compatible both with the original version and with the deluxe… Continue Reading “Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Renovations Coming to Kickstarter November 1”
Posted on September 26, 2022
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(Edit – 10/5/22) – Designer Ted Alspach has confirmed that the online play for this is synchronous and not asynchronous. Maglev Metro is a popular game that has always kind of intimidated me. It was designed by Ted Alspach and published by Bezier Games.… Continue Reading “Maglev Metro From Bezier Games Coming Digitally on October 3”
Posted on November 12, 2021
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Back in January 2021, there was a blog post on Boardgame Geek about a new complete set of the “Railroads” game coming this year. This would be the classic Russian Railroads, the German Railroads expansion and the American Railroads expansion. I made a note… Continue Reading “Thoughts on Ultimate, Deluxe, & Collector’s Editions”
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