Posted on November 4, 2026
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We’re quickly moving through the 5000s in the Boardgame Geek game rankings list, and this week is actually pretty good and pretty bad. Pretty good because I’ve actually played three of them! (actually 4, but the extra one jumped up into last week’s century… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 5301 – 5400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, 6 Nimmt! Baron Oxx, Amigo Spiel, Avalon Hill, Board & Dice, Card Games, Card Shedding, Card-Driven Game, Clubs, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Dice-rolling, Farm Hand, Forest Shuffle - Smoky Mountains, Fort Sumter, Freedom in the Galaxy, GMT Games, Grail Games, Hapsburg Eclipse, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, North Star Games, Phalanx Games, Purple Haze, Solo Games, States of Siege games, Tabletop Tycoon, Trick-taking games, Trismegistus, Wargames
Posted on October 22, 2026
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A day’s delay, so I hope nobody’s gone blue holding their breath for this post. I’ll try to do better next week! These Boardgame Geek century of boardgame rankings posts are still getting some great reactions for me. Always love it when somebody in… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 5101 – 5200”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 13 Leaves, 2-Player Games, Alderac, Banish the Snakes, Bluffing, Brass Pittsburgh, Card Games, Card Shedding, Cardcassone, CMYK, Cooperative Games, Dice-rolling, Duel of Meloch, Economic Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Forest Shuffle - Smoky Mountains, GMT Games, I'm Out, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Player Elimination, Rio Grande Games, Roxley Games, Slugfest Games, Smash Up, Smash Up World Tour: Culture Shock, Smile, Solo Games, Stalingrad Pocket, Star Trek: Missions, Stonemaier Games, The Red Dragon Inn 7: The Tavern Crew, Wargames, Wizkids, X-Men: Mutant Insurrection, Z-Man Games
Posted on December 10, 2025
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I knew that November was going to be huge for New to Me games, but I didn’t realize just how huge! Between a convention (which, surprisingly enough, I didn’t play many new to me games at until the day Abi showed up) and multiple… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, AllPlay, Area Control, Assyria 2nd Edition, Auto-battler, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card Shedding, Catch Up Games, CMYK, Courtisans, Dan Schumacher, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eerie Idol Games, Emanuele Ornella, Fromage, Garphill Games, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jamey Stegmaier, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Masato Uesugi, Mathias Wigge, Oddland, Origin Story, Pablo Clark, Pete Wissinger, Reiner Knizia, Richard Garfield, Road to Infamy Games, Roll and Move, Sanctuary, Scorpion Masqué, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stonemaier Games, Tag Team, Takashi Ishida, The Old King's Crown, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda
Posted on September 8, 2025
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I love playing games that are new, even more when they’re older but still new to me! You know what I love even more? Having reviewed a bunch of them already so I don’t have to try and condense a description of them for… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 7 Empires, Action Selection, Area Control, Bezier Games, Bruce Glassco, Card Games, Card Shedding, David Thompson, Drafting Games, Fabio Lopiano, Final Crisis Game, GMT Games, Ladder-Climbing, Mac Gerdts, Nestore Mangone, Pandasaurus Games, Petr Mojžíš, Rio Grande Games, Roger Tankersley, Salt & Pepper Games, Seers Catalog, Shackleton Base, Solo Games, Sorry We Are French, Star Trek: Missions, Taylor Reiner, The Bell of Treason, Trevor Benjamin, Witchcraft!, Wizkids
Posted on August 1, 2025
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Being off for almost the entire month of July, I wasn’t expecting much on the gaming front. However, I managed to attended a Wednesday night meet-up a couple of times, which greatly helped take the place of our normal lunchtime games at work, at… Continue Reading “July 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: 2-Player Games, Arcane Wonders, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Card Games, Card Shedding, Combat Commander, Contracts, Cosmodrome Games, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Favor of the Pharaoh, GMT Games, Little Dog Games, Lookout Games, NEOM, Push Your Luck Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Smartphone Inc, Spring Cleaning, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames
Posted on June 18, 2025
by whovian223
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I love game conventions. Not only do they give me even more of an opportunity to play great games, but it gives me the opportunity to game and chat with many people who I don’t see very often. That’s why Bottoscon is one of… Continue Reading “Bottoscon Spring 2025 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Archaeology - The New Expedition, Bottoscon Spring, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card Shedding, COIN Games, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Devir, Diamonds, Empire Builder, Fantastic Factories, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Jackie Fox, Lepidoptery, Let's Go to Japan, Let's Go to Japan - Grab Your Passport, Lunch Time Games, Mayfair Games, Metafactory Games, Mob+, New Mill Industries, Pandasaurus Games, People Power, Pick Up & Deliver, Prodigals Club, Pushing Cardboard, Rock Hard 1977, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, SETI, Stronghold Games, Trick & Snipers, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man 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