Posted on November 26, 2025
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Last week’s post talking about some of the games just outside of the Top 1000 on Boardgame Geek seemed to be a big hit. Maybe not in terms of visitors to this site, but with friends of mine, sparking some discussion. In the hopes… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1101 Through 1200 – Thoughts”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1104, A Study in Emerald, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Area Majority, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Cat Lady, Cooperative Games, Ecos: First Continent, Engine-building, Explorers of the North Sea, Flatout Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Greater Than Games, Here I Stand, Linko!, Lunch Time Games, Majesty for the Realm, Point City, Racing Game, Resist!, Salt & Pepper Games, Science Fiction Double Feature, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition, Set Collection Games, Solo Games, Thunder Alley, Tile-Laying Games, Treefrog Games, Virgin Queen, Worlds Fair 1893, Z-Man Games
Posted on December 31, 2024
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There was no way December was going to top November, what with Bottoscon and all. But I did want to get a good variety of games in, and I think I did a pretty good job with that! December was a weird month, though.… Continue Reading “December 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Age of Innovation, BG Stats, Cat Lady, Cat Lady: Kittens, Combat Commander, Combat Commander: Resistance, Gaia Project, Jump Drive, Riftforce, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shards of Infinity, The City
Posted on January 1, 2023
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It’s the new year and welcome to 2023! As has been my tradition for the past 3 years, here is my annual post about the year that was, 2022 in this case. Unlike last year, where I talked about how 2021 really should be… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2022”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Ark Nova, Bayonets & Tomahawks, Boardgame Arena, Boardgames Chronicle, Capstone Games, Cat Lady, Combat Commander: Europe, GMT Games, Jump Drive, Marvel Legendary, Monster Couch, Rio Grande Games, Space Base, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Wingspan
Posted on November 4, 2020
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Just a brief post today because I saw something that I found very cool on Boardgame Geek and I felt I had to share. What is a micro-expansion? Micro-expansions are a set of cards or some other small piece of an already-published game that… Continue Reading “Alderac Micro-Expansions Looking Really Cool”
Category: Board Games, NewsTags: Alderac, Card Games, Cat Lady, Cat Lady: Kittens, Josh Wood, Lunch Time Games, micro-expansions, Paul Peterson, Smash Up, Smash Up: Goblins
Posted on January 23, 2020
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I saw an interesting post on the Smash Up Facebook group the other day. It was a link to a post on the AEG (Alderac Entertainment Group) blog by CEO John Zinser regarding their policy on expansions in 2020 and beyond. Last year, AEG made… Continue Reading “AEG Adjusts its Views on Expansions”
Posted on August 31, 2018
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After last month’s horribly slim post, August was a cornucopia of new to me games! Spanning from the distant past of 2011 to the near future of 2019. This should make my good buddy David at Roll to Review happy. I have a full… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2018”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alderac, Alley Cat Games, Bezier Games, Card Games, Cat Lady, Cover Your A$$ets, Dylan Mangini, Fantastic Factories, Grandpa Beck's, Hero Realms, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Lunch Time Games, Majesty for the Realm, Mephisto, Palace of Mad King Ludwig, Pandasaurus Games, Roll and Write Games, Wasteland Express Delivery Service, Welcome to Dino World, White Wizard Games, Zman Games
Posted on August 27, 2018
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Every August, there is a wonderful boardgaming convention in Bellevue, Washington, called Dragonflight. It’s been held at the Hilton hotel there, and I’ve been going to it since 2015. This past weekend was the 2018 version of it, and it was just as much… Continue Reading “Dragonflight 39 – Another Successful Convention”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Alderac, Bezier Games, Cat Lady, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Diamonds, Eldritch Horror, Fantastic Factories, Fantasy Flight Games, Gale Force 9, Grandpa Beck's, Herbaceous, Majesty for the Realm, Palace of Mad King Ludwig, Pandasaurus Games, Pencil First Games, Prodigals Club, Raiders of the North Sea, Renegade Games Studios, Social media, Spartacus, Stronghold Games, Valley of the Kings: Last Rites, Wasteland Express Delivery Service, Zman Games
Posted on August 13, 2018
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We all know the stereotype of the old lady living alone with hundreds of cats, right? Of course you do. What’s the next best thing to becoming a cat lady, though? Playing a card game where you get to collect cats, of course! Cat… Continue Reading “Review – Cat Lady”
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