Posted on May 12, 2025
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As I spoke about on Saturday, the word “filler” for a game is often seen as derogatory, when it really shouldn’t be. Some fillers are really great! Many card games are filler games, and one really juicy one (though it does feel a bit… Continue Reading “Salty Origami – Sea Salt & Paper Review”
Posted on March 20, 2025
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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 April 1, 2024
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Aloha! (Saying this for my friend who’s out on a cruise, even though she’s not technically going to Hawaii but somewhere just as warm). You may be wondering. “Dave, why are you wearing socks with sandals?” I would say that you should just keep… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Alannah Kearney, Allen Chang, Ape Games, Blob Party, Bombyx, Card Games, Card Shedding, Challengers, City Building, Delta, Franz Couderc, Game Brewer, Garphill Games, Gotcha Gotcha Games, Ikhwan Kwon, Johannes Krenner, Kanban: Driver's Edition, Loosey Goosey Games, Lunch Time Games, Markus Slawitscheck, Of What's Left, Pam Walls, Pandasaurus Games, Party Games, Pegasus Spiele, Renegade Games Studios, Rise to Power, Sea Salt & Paper, Set Collection Games, Shem Phillips, Shipwrights of the North Sea - Redux, Stronghold Games, Surfosaurus Max, Taylor Reiner, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Track Movement, Vale of Eternity, Vital Lacerda, Word Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on March 21, 2024
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It’s a few days after another great convention experience, so let’s talk a little bit about Terminal City Tabletop Convention – 2024. This year, it was held at the Vancouver Convention Centre which is right on the water in downtown Vancouver. It’s a beautiful… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2024”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Amalfi: Renaissance, Ape Games, Aporta Games, Bad Company, Blob Party, Bombyx, Brotherwise Games, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Challengers, Delta, Dice-rolling, Empire's End, First Rat, FloodGate Games, Game Brewer, John D Clair, Kanban: Driver's Edition, Lookout Games, Loosey Goosey Games, Lunch Time Games, Of What's Left, Oh My Goods, Oh My Goods - Longsdale in Revolt, Pandasaurus Games, Party Games, Pegasus Spiele, Resource Management, Rise to Power, Sagrada, Schadenfreude, Sea Salt & Paper, Set Collection Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Surfosaurus Max, Sylex, Tableau-building, Track Movement, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on March 1, 2021
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It’s now March and the Cult of the New to Me is getting restless. We’re now close to a year since lockdowns and social distancing became a thing rather than some abstract concept. This past weekend, a year ago, I was coming home from… Continue Reading “New to Me – February 2021”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Abyss, Auction Games, Bombyx, Bruno Cathala, Card Drafting, Card Games, Charles Chevallier, Hand Management, Lunch Time Games, Luxor, Queen Games, Rüdiger Dorn, Set Collection Games
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