Posted on August 30, 2021
by whovian223
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What? Two editions of this list in two weeks? Could Dave be back? I wouldn’t count on it, but this is a welcome thing to see! My editor is very happy (Editor: Yeah, so happy I could almost not speak in a monotone) It’s… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #250 – 241”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Above and Below, Abstract Games, Action Points, Arcane Wonders, Area Control, Benjamin Pope, Bryan Pope, Card Drafting, Century: Spice Road, City Building, CMON, Concordia Venus, Cthulhu Wars, David Thompson, Deckbuilders, Emerson Matsuuchi, Ethnos, Gen42 Games, Grid Movement, Hand Management, Herve Lemaitre, Hive, John Yianni, Kolossal Games, Lincoln Petersen, Lunch Time Games, Mac Gerdts, Mage Wars Arena, Onitama, Osprey Games, Paolo Mori, Petersen Games, Plan B Games, Red Raven Games, Rio Grande Games, Ryan Laukat, Sandbox games, Sandy Petersen, Set Collection Games, Shimpei Sato, Tile-Laying Games, Trevor Benjamin, Undaunted: Normandy, Wargames, Western Legends
Posted on January 1, 2018
by whovian223
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It’s the end of the year, and everybody in the boardgaming world is doing their “top picks of 2017” or some other variation of that. However, I don’t play enough brand new games to make a list like that. This year was a record-breaking… Continue Reading “Top 10 Games Played in 2017 (10-6)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alderac, Azul, Bezier Games, Century: Spice Road, London, Lunch Time Games, Martin Wallace, New York Slice, Osprey Games, Plan B Games, Tom Cleaver, Valley of the Kings: Last Rites
Posted on September 29, 2017
by whovian223
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Earlier today, I posted a review of Century: Spice Road, the 2017 spice-converting card game by Plan B Games. A new version of this game has just come out in the past couple of months, called Century: Golem Edition, with art by Justin Chan… Continue Reading “Century – Golem Edition (Century review appendix)”
Posted on September 29, 2017
by whovian223
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Have you ever dreamed of being a trader in the medieval world, trading one type of cube spice for another type, fulfilling contracts by turning in certain types of cubes spices? Of course you have! Who hasn’t? (Pipe down, you in the back. You… Continue Reading “Review – Century: Spice Road”
Posted on September 14, 2017
by whovian223
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I feel like I have finally arrived as a gamer, after 6 years in the hobby. How do I know this? Because a major awards nominee list was released and I’ve played at least 30% of them! I guess I will have truly arrived… Continue Reading “International Gamers Awards Nominees Announced”
Category: Board Games, NewsTags: A Feast for Odin, Arkham Horror: the Card Game, Awards, Caverna: Cave vs Cave, Century: Spice Road, First Class, Gloomhaven, Great Western Trail, Holmes: Sherlock & Mycroft, Key to the City: London, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Magic Maze, Santorini, Scythe, Star Wars: Destiny, Terraforming Mars, The Colonists, Ulm, Yokohama
Posted on September 4, 2017
by whovian223
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August was the month of the Dragonflight convention (38th edition, see you there on the 39th maybe?) so it’s to be expected that I would get some new games in. But surprisingly, not as many as I expected. I did get a couple of… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2017”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Alea, Alexander Pfister, Andreas Pelikan, Broom Service, Card Games, Century: Spice Road, Covert, Emerson Matsuuchi, Hanamikoji, Harbour, Kane Klenko, Kosmos, Kota Nakayama, Lunch Time Games, Plan B Games, Ravensburger, Reiner Stockhausen, Renegade Games Studios, Scott Almes, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Worker Placement Games
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