Tag: Bezier Games
Posted on January 28, 2024
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When I was first talking about movement on this list between 2022 and 2024, I wasn’t sure how much movement there would be in the Top 10. Those games are still great, shouldn’t they stay up there? Of course, some games might supplant them,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#30-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alexander Pfister, Architects of the West Kingdom, Bezier Games, Block Wargames, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Chad Jensen, Cole Wehrle, Combat Commander: Pacific, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Daniele Tascini, David Thompson, Devir, Dice Drafting, Eggertspiele, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hans im Gluck, Isra C, John Foley, Kai Jensen, Kei Kajino, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Oink Games, Renegade Games Studios, Resist!, Richard Borg, Roger Tankersley, Rondel Games, Root, Salt & Pepper Games, SCOUT, Shei S, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Solo Games, The White Castle, Trevor Benjamin, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 29, 2023
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It’s the last Friday of 2023, and possibly my last post, so I hope you all have a wonderful new year’s celebration and everything that is good in the upcoming year. I want to thank you again for stopping by, having a libation or… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Trick Taking Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Bezier Games, Card Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Diamonds, GMT Games, Schadenfreude, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, The Barracks Emperors, Tichu, Trick-taking games
Posted on October 7, 2023
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Yes, I know it’s Saturday. But after a day of having a hole punched in our wall and then another day of long driving (which was great and I picked up a couple of awesome-looking games, but it was long), I wasn’t in the… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – The Shelf of Shame”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: A Distant Plain, Bezier Games, Brian Train, Castles of Mad King Ludwig Collector's Edition, COIN Games, Dinosaur World, GMT Games, Harold Buchanan, Kenneth Tee, Liberty or Death, Minerva, Pandasaurus Games, People Power, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, The Discard Pile, The Last Hundred Yards, Volko Ruhnke
Posted on August 2, 2023
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(Edit: 8/29/23:) – It’s live! And it’s $81 CDN before shipping. Something to think about… Exciting news for trick-taking fans everywhere, especially those of the quantum trick-taking game Cat in the Box. I like to think that Bezier Games decided to release this now… Continue Reading “Colossal Cat in the Box From Bezier Games Coming to Kickstarter – August 29”
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