Posted on May 22, 2026
by whovian223
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Recently I was watching a boardgame Youtube video about the creator’s top 10 things that they don’t like in games (sorry, I don’t remember who it was or I would link to them). One of these “things he avoids” was “limited communication in games.”… Continue Reading “I’m Not Talking to You – Games Where You Can’t Communicate”
Category: Board Games, OpinionTags: 2-Player Games, Cooperative Games, Kosmos, Limited communication games, Lunch Time Games, Pandasaurus Games, Scorpion Masqué, Sky Team, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, The Game, The Gang, Trick-taking games
Posted on May 18, 2026
by whovian223
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One of the more recent tropes in cooperative games is the idea that players can’t talk to each other. This removes the alpha gamer issue and also can make the game more interesting. Sometimes, thematically, it makes no sense, but you can’t have everything.… Continue Reading “The Silent Cockpit – Sky Team Review”
Posted on May 5, 2026
by whovian223
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This post took me a lot less time than last month’s did. That’s because there were no conventions in April! Instead of 10+ new to me games, there are only four in this month’s post, but they are all pretty good! The Cult of… Continue Reading “New to Me – April 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, AllPlay, Anna Wermlund, Auction Games, Cooperative Games, Deckbuilders, Eternal Decks, Frostbite Games, Garphill Games, Helge Meissner, Kjetil Svendsen, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lunch Time Games, Money!, Recall, Reiner Knizia, Secret Societies, Set Collection Games, SJ MacDonald, Tableau-building, Tricktakers Games
Posted on April 30, 2026
by whovian223
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I know I have said this before, but looking at the next couple of centuries in the Boardgame Geek top games rankings, at least the next couple of weeks are going to be very bare bones. I haven’t played a lot of them and… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2701 – 2800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Age of Comics: The Golden Years, Block Wargames, Card-Driven Game, Columbia Games, Cooperative Games, Cranio Creations, Crusader Rex, Dale of Merchants 3, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Game Salute, Iron Curtain, Jolly Roger Games, Legendary Encounters: The X-Files, Lirius Games, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, My Shelfie, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Shadowrift 2nd Edition, Snowdale Design, Steve Jackson Games, Ultra Pro, Upper Deck, Wargames, We the People, Worker Placement Games, Zombie Dice
Posted on April 16, 2026
by whovian223
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This is very late, and I am very sorry. Usually I have written my “New to Me Games” post by the end of the first week of the month. But March was such a cornucopia of new games that I just couldn’t do it!… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Anthony Giovannetti, Bruce Glassco, Card Games, Casey Yano, Contention Games, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Cover Your Cookies, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Emanuele Santellani, Expeditions, Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends, Gary Dworetsky, Grandpa Beck's, James Ernest, Jamey Stegmaier, Jeffrey Beck, Leonardo Alese, Light Speed: Arena, Lunch Time Games, Real-Time Games, Rogue-like, Set Collection Games, Slay the Spire: The Board Game, Speakeasy, Stonemaier Games, Tablescope, Tom Jolly, Vital Lacerda, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games
Posted on April 13, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s time for another century of Boardgame Geek rated games, getting down into the second half of the 2000s and seeing what’s there. This one isn’t quite going to be the bonanza that last time’s was, but there are definitely some good games in… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2501 – 2600”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 999 Games, Archeos Society, Avalon Hill, Capstone Games, Cooperative Games, Corrosion, Covert, Daily Magic Games, Fireside Games, Flow of History, GMT Games, Guilds of London, Hellapagos, Lunch Time Games, Negotiation Games, Quests of Valeria, Renegade Games Studios, Rise & Decline of the Third Reich, Semi-cooperative Games, Set Collection Games, Space Cowboys, Star Trek Panic, Tableau-building, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Twilight Struggle: South Asian Monsoon, Valletta, Versailles 1919, Wargames, Z-Man Games
Posted on April 1, 2026
by whovian223
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After a rather lackluster February gaming month, I knew March was going to be pretty huge. Not only was it the great Terminal City Tabletop Convention, but it also captured one day of Bottoscon Winter. It would have been even larger if we hadn’t… Continue Reading “March 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Amigo Spiel, BG Stats, Card Games, Container, Cooperative Games, Dice Drafting, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Economic Games, Fort, Grand Austria Hotel, Grand Austria Hotel - Let's Waltz, Leder Games, Long Shot: The Dice Game, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, No Thanks, Pandasaurus Games, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Perplext, Roll and Write Games, Smash Up, The City, The Game, Wehrlegig Games
Posted on March 21, 2026
by whovian223
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As we get further and further down the BGG rankings, the pickings are becoming increasingly slim. But it’s also made me think a little bit, considering some of the games that show up in each century. I know, thinking is dangerous, especially for me.… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2201 – 2300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 5 Minute Marvel, Alderac, Area Control, Area Majority, Ascension, Ascension: Rise of Vigil, Avalon Hill, B-17: Queen of the Skies, Caesar's Empire, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Cease and Desist, Citrus, City of Iron, Civilization Building, Cooperative Games, Deckbuilders, DLP Games, Dragonfire, GMT Games, Hearts, Holy Grail Games, Levy & Campaign Series, Nevsky, Real-Time Games, Red Raven Games, Route-building, Smash Up, Solo Games, Spades, Spielworxx, Spin Master Games, Stoneblade, Unconditional Surrender, Wargames, Weimar, Wizards of the Coast
Posted on March 19, 2026
by whovian223
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Has it been a year already since last year’s Terminal City convention? Why yes, yes it has. This year’s event was still down at the Vancouver Convention Centre on the waterfront, but it changed buildings to a much larger room. This convention-goer approves of… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2026”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Auction Games, Card Games, Container, Cooperative Games, Dungeons & Dragons: Temple of Elemental Evil, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Economic Games, Eggertspiele, Faraway, Fighting Games, Flip 7, Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, ForGames, GameHead, Grand Austria Hotel, Harvest, Kosmos, Long Shot: The Dice Game, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Pandasaurus Games, Perplext, Power Struggle, Push Your Luck Games, Roll and Write Games, Scorpion Masqué, Speakeasy, Tag Team, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, The Game, The Gang, The Op, Trinket Trove, Valley Games, Vital Lacerda, Wizards of the Coast, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games
Posted on March 5, 2026
by whovian223
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Rob Bottos is a great guy. Not only is he kind and really interesting to talk to, but he also looks after his fellow gamers. He’s run the regular Bottoscon in New Westminster since 2007 (with one year’s break due to COVID) and it’s… Continue Reading “Bottoscon Winter 2026 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Area Control, Bottoscon Winter, Can't Stop, Card Games, CMYK, Combat Commander: Europe/Med Master Edition, Cooperative Games, Cover Your Kingdom, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Earth, Eldritch Horror, Expeditions, Fantasy Flight Games, Fliptoons, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Hand Management, How I Roll - Youtube, Inside Up Games, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Rio Grande Games, Roll and Move, Roll for the Galaxy, Sea Salt & Paper, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Take-That games, The Gang, Thunderworks Games, Wargames