Posted on August 24, 2021
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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”
Posted on August 28, 2020
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How about a little news for the last day of my vacation? *sniff* Sorry, let me just absorb that sentence again. *sob* Anyway, yesterday it was announced that Maracaibo, a 2019 game published by Board & Dice, designed by Alexander Pfister with art by… Continue Reading “Maracaibo Coming to Digital!”
Posted on June 3, 2020
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It’s week 4 of my weekly look at the Boardgame Geek Top 100 games to see how many I’ve played and how many I even want to play. It’s a rather blah week, for a lot of reasons, but also just because there aren’t… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 70-61”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Adam Carlson, Alexander Pfister, Area Control, Bluffing, Board & Dice, Card Drafting, Chip Theory Games, CMON, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Crokinole, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dexterity Games, Dice-rolling, Dominion, Dominion: Intrigue, Donald X. Vaccarino, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, El Grande, Eldritch Horror, Eric Lang, Fantasy Flight Games, Josh J. Carlson, Lisboa, Miniatures, Mombasa, Nikki Valens, Richard Ulrich, Rio Grande Games, Rising Sun, Rondel Games, Teotihuacan, Too Many Bones, Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition, Vital Lacerda, Wolfgang Kramer, Worker Placement Games
Posted on April 6, 2020
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Say that 3 times fast. I received an email from Board & Dice overnight with a cool new announcement! They keep coming with these things. Yes, it’s Board & Dice with another unpronounceable board game name (though the picture shows that they obviously don’t… Continue Reading “Board & Dice Announcement – Tawantinsuyu!”
Posted on April 2, 2020
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We’re all still enjoying enduring all of this self-isolation. For that reason, a lot of my blog hits have been on apps, mobile, and online gaming. Yet there are still lots of great boardgame-specific things going on, and here’s another post about one of… Continue Reading “Tekhenu – New Picture!”
Posted on December 31, 2019
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It’s a New Year’s Eve miracle! I wasn’t going to post anything else this week (other than Monday’s review and the December “New to Me” post) when I received this lovely email from Board & Dice announcing the 2020 release from designer Daniele Tascini… Continue Reading “Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun from Board & Dice”
Posted on October 31, 2019
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October was SHUX month. SHUX is a 3-day boardgame convention in Vancouver that was simply phenomenal. I had so much fun, and would have had even more fun if I hadn’t felt so terrible. Maybe next year! You know what conventions mean, right? No,… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 5x5 City, Alderac, Board & Dice, Brian Henk, Card Drafting, Card Games, Civilization Building, Clayton Skancke, Corinth, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Denis Plastinin, Dice-rolling, Dylan Mangini, Explorers of the North Sea, Garphill Games, Grey Fox Games, Hisashi Hayashi, Jamey Stegmaier, Jonny Pac Cantin, Lunch Time Games, Mico, Modular Games, Molly Johnson, Okazu Brand, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Pull the Pin Games, Renegade Games Studios, Robert Melvin, Roll and Write Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Shawn Stankewich, Shem Phillips, Sierra West, SJ MacDonald, Stonemaier Games, Tapestry, Tile-Laying Games, War of the Worlds: the New Wave, Worker Placement Games, Zorro Dice Game
Posted on February 7, 2019
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After a steady couple of days (thanks, Reddit!), it’s time to get back to the real business of this blog. That’s right, fashion shows board games! Apologies for the delay in getting back to the Best Games Played of All Time after a rollicking… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time (15-11)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Board & Dice, Card-Driven Game, Czech Games Edition, Daniele Tascini, Fort Sumter, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Last Will, London, Lunch Time Games, Mark Herman, Martin Wallace, NSKN Games, Osprey Games, Raiders of the North Sea, Renegade Games Studios, Rondel Games, Shem Phillips, Tableau-building, Teotihuacan, Vladimir Suchy, Worker Placement Games
Posted on November 1, 2018
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Holy moley, true believers! October is usually a quiet month, but a gaming marathon at the beginning dumped five “new to me” games all in one day and it was only upwards from there! That was the exciting part of the month. I was… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2018”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alea, Alice Davis, Avalon Hill, Betrayal at Baldur's Gate, Board & Dice, Card Games, Chris Dupuis, Clank, Cooperative Games, Cryptozoic, Daily Magic Games, Daniele Tascini, David Turczi, DC Comics Deck-Building Game, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Keith Matejka, Kitten Klash, Linko!, Lukas Zach, Lunch Time Games, Matt Jacobs, Michael Kiesling, Michael Palm, Mike Mearls, NSKN Games, Paul Dennen, Pegasus Spiele, Ravensburger, Renegade Games Studios, Roll Player, Rondel Games, Stefan Feld, Teotihuacan, The Dwarves, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Wolfgang Kramer
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