Tag: Cooperative Games
Posted on October 24, 2025
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Poker can be a really hardcore game, and quite cutthroat too. Bluffing your opponents into thinking you have an unbeatable hand when you have nothing but crap is a mainstay of the game. Why is he betting so much on that flop? But what… Continue Reading “Gambling With Success – The Gang Review”
Posted on September 1, 2025
by whovian223
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It’s nice when a month of gaming comes together in unexpected ways is better than you expected it to be. I was surprised by July’s gaming numbers, considering I was off. August came around and I was going to be missing one Sunday due… Continue Reading “August 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Card Games, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Combat Commander, Cooperative Games, Days of Wonder, Five Tribes, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Kosmos, Mancala games, Stonemaier Games, The Gang, Tides of Trade, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Wingspan
Posted on May 23, 2025
by whovian223
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No, you’re not drunk or stoned or just seeing things. Yes, this is the third week in a row for a Friday Night Shots post. The bar is now open weekly! At least for now. Maybe not next week. I’m glad you happened to… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Cooperative Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Card Games, Cooperative Games, Dice-rolling, Eldritch Horror, Fantasy Flight Games, Fillers, Flash Point, FloodGate Games, Greater Than Games, Kites, Lunch Time Games, Pandemic: the Cure, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition, Z-Man Games
Posted on March 20, 2025
by whovian223
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Last weekend was the 10th (maybe 11th?) annual Terminal City Tabletop Convention (though I guess it was interrupted by COVID so not actually 11?). I have to say it was probably the best yet. In previous years, the people running it didn’t do the… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2025”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Auction Games, Bombyx, Brotherwise Games, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Catch Up Games, CMYK, Cooperative Games, CuBirds, Czech Games Edition, Deduction, Dice Placement, Empire's End, Fantastic Factories, Faraway, Finspan, Firestarter Games, Fives, Garphill Games, Huch & Friends, Kosmos, Living Forest, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, Metafactory Games, Mighty Boards, Multi-use cards, Oink Games, Orapa Mine, Pandasaurus Games, Playte, Push Your Luck Games, Rajas of the Ganges: Cards & Karma, Rebirth, Reforest, Repos Games, Resource Management, Scholars of the South Tigris, SCOUT, Sea Salt & Paper, Secrets, Set Collection Games, SETI, Social Deduction Games, Stonemaier Games, The Gang, Tile-Laying Games, Toy Battle, Trick-taking games
Posted on January 2, 2025
by whovian223
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It’s a new year, and coming up on my 8th blog anniversary in March! One thing I forgot to mention in yesterday’s Blog in Review post was the fact that, in those 8 years (or at least since I started, which I think was… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Amigo Spiel, Area Control, Card Games, Civolution, Cooperative Games, Dance of Ibexes, Dice Placement, Hand Management, John Cooper, Kory Heath, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Michael Schacht, Patrician, Pegasus Spiele, Poker, Stefan Feld, The Gang, Wolfgang Kramer
Posted on November 28, 2023
by whovian223
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With a convention at the beginning of the month, it was a no-brainer that November would be a bigger gaming month than October had been. However, after working remotely for most of the month (so no lunch-time games, since I’m usually doing stuff around… Continue Reading “November 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Ark Nova, Capstone Games, Combat Commander, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Dominant Species, Flash Point, GMT Games, Indie Boards & Cards, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Wargames
Posted on January 16, 2023
by whovian223
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One of the common words I hear to describe some games with lots of upkeep is “fussy.” That’s when there’s a bunch of stuff on the table, you’re trying to keep straight multiple different abilities and tracks and hopefully you don’t forget anything. From… Continue Reading “Review – Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition”
Posted on December 6, 2022
by whovian223
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November was an interesting month for boardgaming. I went to my second convention this year, a relatively small (compared to SHUX, anyway!) local wargaming convention where I was finally able to get a bit of wargaming done! Considering how many wargames I now have,… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2022”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Adam Rebottaro, Almoravid, Amigo Spiel, Arcana Rising, Ben Rosset, Between Two Cities, Block Wargames, Caesar's Empire, Card Games, Christopher Badell, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Cooperative Games, David Thompson, Deduction, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Engine-building, Excape, FloodGate Games, GMT Games, Greater Than Games, Grey Fox Games, Holy Grail Games, Kevin Hamano, Kites, Levy & Campaign Series, Lunch Time Games, Matthew O'Malley, Matthieu Podevin, No Mercy, Pixie Games, Push Your Luck Games, Rapido, Real-Time Games, Rebellion Unplugged, Reiner Knizia, Richard Borg, Roger Tankersley, Route-building, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition, Sniper Elite: the Board Game, Stonemaier Games, Tim Armstrong, Volko Ruhnke, Wargames
Posted on July 4, 2022
by whovian223
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June 2022 was a weird month. For the most part, things are going ok, especially compared to last year. But there are so many bad things going on the world that it’s still really stressful. Plus, I’m on vacation the entire month of July… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2022”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Area Majority, Carcassonne, Card Games, Cooperative Games, D-Day Dice (2nd Edition), Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Emmanuel Aquin, Hans im Gluck, Honshu, Kalle Malmioja, Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, Legendary Entertainment, Mille Fiori, Paul Dennen, Reiner Knizia, Renegade Games Studios, Schmidt Spiele, Tile-Laying Games, Word Forge Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on May 25, 2022
by whovian223
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One of the cool new 2-player games I bought during the pandemic lockdowns and brought to work once we came back to the office was Riftforce. The game is designed by Carlo Bartolini with artwork by Miguel Coimbra. It was published by Capstone Games.… Continue Reading “Riftforce: Beyond – Coming From Capstone Games in August”
Category: Board Games, NewsTags: 2-Player Games, Capstone Games, Card Games, Carlo Bortolini, Cooperative Games, Duel Games, Expansions, Riftforce, Riftforce: Beyond, Solo Games