Tag: Card Games
Posted on October 19, 2026
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I normally don’t do Kickstarters for games out of the blue, sticking with tried and true companies and game series that I enjoy. For some reason, Cassette Crush just reached out and grabbed me as a relatively quick card game brimming with 80s and… Continue Reading “I’ve Got a Crush on You – Cassette Crush: Mixtape Masters Review”
Posted on October 16, 2026
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Sometimes when you’re sitting in line somewhere and you just don’t want to doom scroll BlueSky or read your e-book that you’ve got on your phone, you just want a little mindless phone app action instead. That’s when you might want to give Dirty… Continue Reading “Filthy Cards – Dirty 7s – App Solo Play Review”
Posted on October 14, 2026
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We’re now on the downward slope heading to the 10,000 level of games ranked on Boardgame Geek. Yet there are still some decent ones down here! That just goes to show you that a low-ranked game does not necessarily mean it is bad. Of… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 5001 – 5100”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Alderac, AllPlay, Amigo Spiel, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, Card Games, Compass Games, Dance of Ibexes, Duel of Meloch, Enemy Action: Kharkov, Forest Shuffle - Smoky Mountains, Game Makers, GMT Games, Hand Management, I Cut You Choose, I Made You a Mixtape, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Massive Asterisk, Mixlore, Multi-use cards, Oddland, Peloponnesian War, Ramen Fury, Set Collection Games, Smash Up World Tour: International Incident, Solo Games, Stonemaier Games, Thebai, Tile-Laying Games, Variable Player Powers, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket
Posted on October 9, 2026
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It’s another Friday night, so time for some stream of consciousness writing about a boardgame topic that makes me happy. What better thing to do on a Friday night? Tonight, with a little bit of whiskey added to the mix, I’d like to talk… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Games That Grabbed You on First Look”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Bohemians, Capstone Games, Card Games, Class of '89, Deckbuilders, Delicious Games, Lunch Time Games, Paverson Games, Portal Games, Resafa, Track Movement, Up or Down, Worker Placement Games
Posted on October 1, 2026
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My September gaming wasn’t quite as huge as August, but it was still pretty good. For a while there, I thought my “new to me” games would amount to one, but then Abi showed up for a couple of Sundays and I was then… Continue Reading “September 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: 2-Player Games, Action Points, Action Selection, Alderac, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Card Games, Combat Commander, Czech Games Edition, Drafting Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Fliptoons, Galaxy Trucker, GMT Games, Into the Machine, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Real-Time Games, Scorpion Masqué, Suburbia, Tag Team, The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on September 18, 2026
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Relatively quick card games are my bread and butter on work lunches, though of course we also make time for some other shorter games (like Cascadia). One game that was not on my radar at all until I saw the Boardgame Geek GameNight! crew… Continue Reading “Elevating Card Play – Up or Down Review”
Posted on September 16, 2026
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After a week where I literally had not played any of the games in the Boardgame Geek century I was talking about, this week is going to be huge! Well, maybe not huge, but we’re back to at least a few. That will probably… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4601-4700”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Alderac, Auf Teufel Komm Raus, Betting, Board & Dice, Card Games, COIN Games, Downfall, Drafting Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Entropy, France '40, GMT Games, Heavy Cardboard, Looney Labs, Lost Legends, Lunch Time Games, People Power, Pirate Fluxx, Queen Games, Railways of the World: The Card Game, Rondel Games, Set Collection Games, Smash Up: Marvel, Solo Games, The Hunted: Twilight of the U-Boats, Wargames
Posted on September 9, 2026
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We have reached the midway point of the 4000s in the Boardgame Geek game rankings, and we have also hit another milestone. I have not played or do not own any of the games in this century. I know I said originally that I… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4501 – 4600”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1 vs Many games, Alderac, Avalon Hill, Capstone Games, Card Games, Cascadia: Alpine Lakes, Catherine: The Cities of the Tsarina, Cooperative Games, Cosmic Encounter, D-Day at Peleliu, Decision Games, Drafting Games, DVG Games, Flatout Games, Fliptoons Season 2, Hidden Movement, KuZOOkA, Last Friday, Lunch Time Games, Negotiation Games, Pegasus Spiele, Pendragon Game Studio, Phantom Leader, Rondel Games, Scorpius Freighter, Set Collection Games, Solo Games, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on September 2, 2026
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We’re halfway through the 4000s in our weekly look at games on the Boardgame Geek top games list, and things are looking up again. Slightly. Last week, I had only played two of the games in that century and I was beginning to despair… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4401 – 4500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, AllPlay, Andreas Odendahl, Area Control, Arkham Horror: Final Hour, Battalion Combat Series, Bezier Games, Bill Eberle, Card Games, Carlo A Rossi, Christopher Wray, Cooperative Games, Cosmic Encounter Duel, Dean Essig, Dice Drafting, El Burro, Fantasy Flight Games, Francisco Gradaille, Frank Brooks, Game Makers, GMT Games, Greg Olotka, Ignacy Trzewiczek, La Granja, Lane Battler, Last Blitzkrieg, Levy & Campaign Series, Lunch Time Games, Michael Keller, Multi-Man Publishing, Neuroshima Convoy, Oops You Did It Again, Paul Peterson, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, Pollen, Portal Games, Reiner Knizia, Smash Up, Spielworxx, Stonemaier Games, Todd Michlitsch, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket
Posted on August 26, 2026
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Welcome to another look at a century of Boardgame Geek game rankings! These posts have been really cool for me because of the conversations they’ve started with friends and colleagues, but they’ve usually had at least a few games that I’ve played and can… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4301 – 4400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 12 Rivers, 2-Player Games, Area Majority, Ascension, Auction Games, Avalon Hill, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, Canasta, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Deckbuilders, Donning the Purple, Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcom, First Fish Games, Founders of Teotihuacan, Gift of the Elements, Good Games Publishing, Hanami, IV Studio, Keymaster Games, Liberation Game Design, Lunch Time Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Realm of Reckoning, Roll and Move, Stoneblade, Storm Over Stalingrad, Subdivision, Talisman 5th Edition, The Korean War, Tile-Laying Games, Tompet Games, Town Builder: Coevorden, Victory Games, Wargames