Tag: Card Games
Posted on June 4, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s June. I’m amazed that we’re almost half-way through the year already. But it’s also time to look back at May and the gaming that I did (which I did in general already) With Mother’s Day taking up one Sunday, it was another sparse… Continue Reading “New to Me – May 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Card Games, Dave Beck, Distilled, John Clowdus, Kolossal Games, Lunch Time Games, Omen: A Reign of War, Paverson Games, Push Your Luck Games, Set Collection Games
Posted on June 1, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s been another slower month of gaming this last May, again because one of our Sundays was cancelled (this month due to Mother’s Day…stupid moms!) This month, I had the same number of plays (19) as April but only 11 games instead of 13.… Continue Reading “May 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Aces of Valor, Card Games, Combat Commander, Czech Games Edition, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Folded Space, Galaxy Trucker, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Jump Drive, Jump Drive - Terminal Velocity, Legion Wargames, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, The City, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris
Posted on May 26, 2023
by whovian223
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Ain’t nature grand? I think it is. All of the beautiful landscapes that are out there. Nature photography is some of the best photography out there. And nature games, too! There’s been a bit of a renaissance in nature-themed games in the last few… Continue Reading “Review – Subastral”
Posted on May 1, 2023
by whovian223
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After a robust March of gaming, April took a bit of a downturn. The lack of a convention along with missing a Sunday game day and being off for a week so there were no lunch time games that week, all of that combined… Continue Reading “April 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: BG Stats, Card Games, Clank in Space, Clank in Space: Cyber Station 11, Combat Commander, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Folded Space, Galaxy Trucker, GMT Games, Real-Time Games, Renegade Games Studios, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Discovery, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Foundations, Wargames
Posted on April 14, 2023
by whovian223
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(I put “card game” review in the title so you don’t think it’s a review of the planet we live on, or maybe a good gardening company) Nature seems to be the in thing for games right now. If I had a penny for… Continue Reading “Earth – Card Game Review”
Posted on April 3, 2023
by whovian223
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March was a good month for gaming, with a convention and numerous lunch time plays at work as well as some hefty Sunday game days as well. As noted in my March gaming post, I played 21 games! Seven of them were even new… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Aces of Valor, Action Selection, Alderac, Bot Factory, Card Games, Czech Games Edition, David Thompson, Dice Placement, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Earth, Erik von Rossing, Garphill Games, Hidden Roles, Inside Up Games, Ion Game Design, João Quintela Martins, Legion Wargames, Lunch Time Games, Matt Eklund, Maxime Tardif, Peter B. Hoffgaard, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Solo Games, Starship Captains, Stationfall, Tableau-building, Trevor Benjamin, Vital Lacerda, War Chest, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, World War I Games
Posted on April 1, 2023
by whovian223
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March was definitely a great month of gaming. I managed to play 21 games (32 plays) in 31 days! And 15 days worth of gaming is always good. Fifteen out of thirty-one? Woo! Many thanks to Boardgame Stats for the wonderful app that lets… Continue Reading “March 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alexander Pfister, BG Stats, Card Games, Charlie Bink, Franz-Benno Delonge, Jump Drive, Jump Drive - Terminal Velocity, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Tom Lehmann, Transamerica, Trekking Through History
Posted on March 22, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s been a while since I did one of these micro-expansion Smash Up reviews (has it really been 5 months? Where has the time gone?). I had meant to do these monthly, but that promise to myself was like a new version of Glory… Continue Reading “Expansion Review – Smash Up Micro-Expansion – Knights of the Round Table”
Posted on March 15, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s Wednesday and part of me is still coming down from the high of a weekend full of boardgames! For the first time since March 2019, the annual (until COVID, damn it) Terminal City Tabletop Convention was held in my hometown of Vancouver this… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2023”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Alexander Pfister, Aporta Games, Bad Company, Bingo, Bot Factory, Card Games, Christian Kang, Contracts, Czech Games Edition, Diamonds, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Eilif Svensson, Eric Mosso, Franz-Benno Delonge, Gamelyn Games, Garphill Games, João Quintela Martins, John D Clair, Kenneth Minde, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Mike Fitzgerald, Oh My Goods, Peter B. Hoffgaard, Plumpy Thimble, Renegade Games Studios, Scott Almes, Set Collection Games, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Starship Captains, Stronghold Games, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tiny Epic Galaxies, Transamerica, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Winsome Games
Posted on March 4, 2023
by whovian223
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February was a weird month for gaming. I missed on Sunday Funday because of doing a math trade (where I traded 17 games for a bunch of money and 5 other games!) and then I was on vacation for a week so we didn’t… Continue Reading “February 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Ben Pinchback, Card Games, Chad Jensen, Charioteer, Combat Commander, Commands & Colors: Ancients, GMT Games, Hanamikoji, Kota Nakayama, Lunch Time Games, Matt Calkins, Matt Riddle, Racing Game, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Borg, Subastral