Posted on April 22, 2024
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I like card games a lot. Short, punchy 2-player card games are even better, as you don’t need a lot of time and they work in almost any circumstance. Even better is when they do some innovative things with the whole genre. Like Cain… Continue Reading “Kickstarter Review – Like Cain and Abel”
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 February 26, 2024
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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 11, 2024
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It’s been a long journey getting to this top 10. Not so much in weeks, as these posts have appeared for 5 weeks just like the previous Top 25 did (or they should have, but I’d forgotten that I took a much too long… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#10 – 1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, Action Selection, Ark Nova, Brad Johnson, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Christian Leonard, Clank in Space, Combat Commander: Europe, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice Placement, Dire Wolf Digital, Earth, Engine-building, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Inside Up Games, Jason Matthews, Mathias Wigge, Maxime Tardif, Paul Dennen, Prodigals Club, Renegade Games Studios, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tableau-building, Time of Crisis, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Wray Ferrell
Posted on February 4, 2024
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How our tastes change over time is always kind of interesting to look at. As a kid, I loved Brussels Sprouts! Now, I really really hate them. Ok, I’m kidding…nobody sane likes Brussels Sprouts. But you get my point! Things you like as a… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#20-11)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Amalfi: Renaissance, Andrew Veen, Area Majority, Card Games, Cole Wehrle, ctr, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Deep Water Games, Dice-rolling, Elizabeth Hargrave, Fantastic Factories, Fryx Games, Gale Force 9, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Kayenta Games, Lunch Time Games, Nick Little, Obsession, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Peter Lee, Rio Grande Games, Rodney Thompson, Schadenfreude, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Sydney Engelstein, Sylex, Tableau-building, Takeo Yamada, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Trick-taking games, Tyrants of the Underdark, Underwater Cities, Vladimír Suchý, Wehrlegig Games, Wingspan, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 30, 2024
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Hey there, it’s been a while! I mean, it’s been a while since you’ve seen a Smash Up review from me, not since you’ve seen anything from me. Unless you haven’t been visiting this blog at all, in which case I am now sad.… Continue Reading “Expansion Review – Smash Up: Excellent Movies, Dudes!”
Posted on January 21, 2024
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Two weeks and two entries into this list. Maybe I’ll be able to actually do this weekly, unlike in 2022! It was interesting doing a Top 50 rather than a Top 25. Some games have fallen enough that they wouldn’t even be listed if… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#40-31)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Alderac, Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, Block Wargames, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Contracts, Cosmodrome Games, Daily Magic Games, Darwin's Journey, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Economic Games, Eilif Svensson, Formal Ferret Games, Garphill Games, Gil Hova, GMT Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Helge Meissner, Ivan Lashin, John D Clair, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Nestore Mangone, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Ravensburger, Renegade Games Studios, Revive, Richard Borg, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Smartphone Inc, Space Base, Stan Kordonskiy, Stefan Feld, The Networks, Thundergryph Games, Tile-Laying Games, Virginio Gigli, Wargames
Posted on January 9, 2024
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Another year, another OrcaCon has passed. I first went to OrcaCon in 2020, but then some world-wide event that I can’t seem to remember stopped me from going again until last year. I wish it would come to me. Anyway, this last weekend was… Continue Reading “OrcaCon 2024 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, BLAM Games, Card Games, Claim, CMON, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Dice of Crowns, Dice-rolling, Engine-building, Far Off Games, Fire in the Library, Funforge Games, Gizmos, Guild Academies of Valeria, Helvetiq Games, Hit Me!, I Found Bigfoot, Kompromat, Matches, OrcaCon, Our Family Plays Games, Pegasus Spiele, Port Royal, Puppy Pile, Push Your Luck Games, Quantum, Quined Games, Schadenfreude, Set Collection Games, Splito, Studio Turbine, Thing 12 Games, Trick-taking games, Tricky Dicks, Vanuatu, Weird Giraffe Games, White Goblin Games, Wryknot Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System
Posted on January 4, 2024
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It’s a new year, but let’s take one last look at the old year before we continue on! December was not a huge month for new to me games, as I detailed earlier. But quality trumps quantity, so even though there are only three… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Bag Building, Card Games, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Garphill Games, Hand Management, Kayenta Games, Obsession, Renegade Games Studios, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tichu, Trick-taking games, Urs Hostettler
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