Tag: Board & Dice
Posted on November 20, 2025
by whovian223
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Recently the “This Game is Broken” podcast did a “Higher or Lower” game based on games in the Boardgame Geek rankings from 1000 to 2000. (You should really check them out, by the way. Hilarious boardgame podcast) During the Covid lockdowns, in order to… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1000 Through 1100 – Thoughts”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1989: Dawn of Freedom, Adrenaline, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, boardgamegeek, Capstone Games, Card-Driven Game, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Castles of Mad King Ludwig Collector's Edition, Coffee Traders, Czech Games Edition, Deduction, Economic Games, Friedrich, GMT Games, Hidden Movement, Histogame, One vs Many, Point to Point Movement, Rebellion Unplugged, Sniper Elite: the Board Game, Tile-Laying Games, Washington's War, Worker Placement Games, Yedo, Yedo: Deluxe Master Set
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 February 26, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s the first month of the year! And it’s also almost the end of February. Yes, it took so much energy to get my Top 50 games played of all time done, along with getting sick recently, that we’re into the last week of… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Adam Porter, Alain Epron, Alexander Pfister, BLAM Games, Board & Dice, Card Games, Claim, Clever 4Ever, Cody Miller, Daily Magic Games, Daniel McKinley, David Turczi, Dice Drafting, Economic Games, Eric Zimmerman, Far Off Games, Funforge Games, German Railroads, Guild Academies of Valeria, Helmut Ohley, Helvetiq Games, Hit Me!, I Found Bigfoot, John David Wood, Kompromat, Leonhard Orgler, Luc Rémond, Lunch Time Games, Matches, Mike A Pratt, Nucleum, Pegasus Spiele, Pick Up & Deliver, Port Royal, Puppy Pile, Push Your Luck Games, Quantum, Quined Games, Rob Fisher, Roll and Write Games, Romaric Galonnier, Russian Railroads, Schmidt Spiele, Scott Almes, Set Collection Games, Simone Luciani, Space Games, Splito, Stan Kordonskiy, Thing 12 Games, Trick-taking games, Tricky Dicks, Vanuatu, White Goblin Games, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Wryknot Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Z-Man Games
Posted on February 9, 2024
by whovian223
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Welcome back! I know it’s been a couple of weeks, but I was taking some time putting a new bar up. With heated seats! I hope that works ok and isn’t a fire hazard. Oops. Anyway, have a seat and let me get you… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Old vs New?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Ark Nova, Board & Dice, Daily Magic Games, Explorers of the North Sea, Ezra & Nehemiah, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Guild Academies of Valeria, Jump Drive, Nucleum, Obsession, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shipwrights of the North Sea - Redux, Smash Up, Stationfall
Posted on January 14, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s only been two years, but it’s that time again! The 2022 edition of my “Top Games Played of All Time” was predicated on my having played just over 400 games. As of the end of 2023, I had played 534 games in total.… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#50-41)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Abstract Games, Action Selection, Alderac, Andreas Schmidt, Blood Bowl Team Manager, Board & Dice, Cape May, Chad Jensen, Charlie Bink, Cranio Creations, Daniele Tascini, David Thompson, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dominant Species, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, Engine-building, Fantasy Flight Games, Flaminia Brasini, GMT Games, Heaven & Ale, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Lunch Time Games, Michael Kiesling, On Mars, Paul Dennen, Set Collection Games, Simone Luciani, Teotihuacan, Thunderworks Games, Trekking Through History, Trevor Benjamin, Underdog Games, Virginio Gigli, Vital Lacerda, War Chest, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on October 31, 2023
by whovian223
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October was a great month for new to me games! That’s been a bit unusual lately, so I’m glad that this is back on the upswing. Of course, with every improvement there comes a downside. I played 5 new to me games in October,… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Amalfi: Renaissance, Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, Barcelona, Bitewing Games, Board & Dice, Dani Garcia, GMT Games, Jason Matthews, Lunch Time Games, Negotiation Games, Phil Walker-Harding, Reiner Knizia, Resource Management, Space Cowboys, Spellbook, Sylex, Takeo Yamada, Tile-Laying Games, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Wargames, Zoo Vadis
Posted on April 21, 2023
by whovian223
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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 25, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit 4/18/23) – and it’s now live! Go here to back it in whatever fashion you want. Received the exciting news from Board & Dice this morning that one of their great games, Teotihuacan, is getting the Deluxe treatment in April. In addition to… Continue Reading “Teotihuacan Deluxe Coming to Kickstarter in April”
Posted on January 17, 2022
by whovian223
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It’s that time again! Yes, it’s another installment of my Top 25 Games Played of All Time – 2022 edition, all because I’ve now played over 400 games. The last edition was 3 years ago, so there are a bunch of new games in… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time – 2022 Edition (20-16)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Asymmetric Games, Blood Bowl Team Manager, Board & Dice, Cole Wehrle, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Deep Water Games, Dice Placement, Dice Tower West, Dragonflight, Fantastic Factories, Fantasy Flight Games, Jason Little, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Keith Matejka, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, OrcaCon, Roll Player, Root, Tableau-building, Teotihuacan
Posted on August 24, 2021
by whovian223
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Sometimes it pays to be on email lists. And sometimes it doesn’t (I’m looking at you, you US Special Forces operative who keeps promising me a fortune in stolen loot but never answers my email responses!). But this time it did! Today’s Inbox contained… Continue Reading “Founders of Teotihuacan Coming from Board & Dice in May 2022”
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