A Gaming Life
Posted on January 10, 2022 by whovian223
With the close of the year 2021, I have actually played 422 games since I really started playing boardgames in 2012. Since my “Top 25 Games Played of All Time” series in 2019 was predicated on my having played almost 300 games, I thought… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time – 2022 Edition (25-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Brian Train, Card Drafting, COIN Games, Colonial Twilight, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Eldritch Horror, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Jacob Fryxelius, Jerry White, Mark Aasted, Nick Little, Nikki Valens, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Solo Games, Storm Above the Reich, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Tableau-building, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Tile-Laying Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on September 17, 2021 by whovian223
It was a close one this week. Yes, I almost didn’t get this post done so that it would post this week at all. That would break my streak and we know that we can’t have that. But here it is! We’re three episodes… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #230-221”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alien Frontiers, Area Control, Battle Line, Card Games, Clever Mojo Games, Colby Dauch, Corey Konieczka, Dead of Winter: The Long Night, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Economic Games, Escape Room, Exit: The Abandoned Cabin, Fantasy Flight Games, Funtails, Glen More II: Chronicles, GMT Games, Hidden Traitor, Indonesia, Inka Brand, Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga, Kosmos, Mac Gerdts, Markus Brand, Matthias Cramer, Miniatures, Navegador, Plaid Hat Games, Reiner Knizia, Rio Grande Games, Rococo, Rondel Games, Rune Wars, Splotter Spellen, Summoner Wars: Master Set, Tory Niemann
Posted on June 14, 2021 by whovian223
I know it’s been a while (my last post was May 28), but here were finally are with another entry in the COVID-long series of posts about games on Boardgame Geek and whether or not I’ve played them. Thankfully, it looks like the main… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #270-261”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Points, Andreas Schmidt, Area Movement, Bag Building, Christian Marcussen, Corey Konieczka, Dice-rolling, Don Eskridge, Eggertspiele, Fantasy Flight Games, Gabriele Mari, Gamelyn Games, Gianluca Santopietro, Glass Road, Heaven & Ale, Indie Boards & Cards, Kasper Aagaard, KLASK, Letters From Whitechapel, Lunch Time Games, Merchants & Marauders, Michael Kiesling, Mikkel Bertelsen, Northstar Games, Pick Up & Deliver, Rondel Games, Scott Almes, Social Deduction Games, Star Wars: Outer Rim, The Resistance, The Taverns of Tiefenthal, Tikal, Tile-Laying Games, Tiny Epic Galaxies, Tony Fanchi, Uwe Rosenberg, Wolfgang Kramer, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on January 6, 2021 by whovian223
After months of waiting (I hope you weren’t holding your breath), we have reached the end of the line (for the second time). Yes, we are at the end of the Top 200 BGG games, and it’s been an interesting ride. I’ve really discovered… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #110-101”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Sadler, Alchemists, Area Control, Area Movement, Awaken Realms, Barrage, Bernd Brunnhofer, Card Drafting, Christian Martinez, Clank in Space, Corey Konieczka, Cranio Creations, Czech Games Edition, Daniel Clark, Deckbuilders, Decrypto, Deduction, Descent: Journeys into the Dark (2nd Edition), Dire Wolf Digital, Dungeon Crawl, Fantasy Flight Games, Forbidden Stars, Inis, James Kniffen, Jason Little, Kevin Wilson, Krzysztof Piskorski, Marcin Świerkot, Matagot, Matúš Kotry, Miniatures, Party Games, Paul Dennen, Portal Games, Renegade Games Studios, Resource Management, Samuel Bailey, Simone Luciani, Star Wars: X-Wing, Stone Age, Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon, Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance, Tommaso Battista, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on August 3, 2020 by whovian223
It’s been almost 4 weeks since the last post in this series looking at the Top 100 Games ranked on Boardgame Geek. I was riding high, feeling all the love the series was creating and posting something almost every week day. And then I… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Play or Played – #10-1”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Alexander Pfister, Ananda Gupta, Brass: Birmingham, Campaign Games, Card-Driven Game, Cephalofair Games, Christian T. Petersen, Civilization Building, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Dane Beltrami, Deckbuilders, Economic Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Gaia Project, Gavan Brown, Gloomhaven, GMT Games, Great Western Trail, Helge Ostertag, Isaac Childress, Jacob Fryxelius, Jason Matthews, Jens Drogemuller, Martin Wallace, Matt Leacock, Matt Tolman, Pandemic: Legacy Season 1, Rob Daviau, Roxley Games, Star Wars: Rebellion, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization, Twilight Imperium : 4th Edition, Twilight Struggle, Vlaada Chvátil, Zman Games
Posted on June 24, 2020 by whovian223
Another week, another look at the BGG Top 100. I’m really loving the response to these posts. It really heartens me and makes me want to keep going (even though this is the first post since the last Top 100 post, which isn’t necessarily… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? #40-31”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Kwapiński, Adam Poots, Ameritrash, Awaken Realms, Blood Rage, Chris Cantrell, Civilization Building, CMON, Cole Wehrle, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Daniele Tascini, Eric Lang, Fantasy Flight Games, Friedemann Friese, Jonathan Ying, Justin Kemppainen, Kingdom Death, Kingdom Death Monster, Leder Games, Matt Leacock, Mechs vs Minions, Miniatures, Nathan Tiras, Nemesis, Pandemic Legacy: Season 2, Power Grid, Prashant Saraswat, Rick Ernst, Rio Grande Games, Riot Games, Rob Daviau, Root, Simone Luciani, Star Wars: Imperial Assault, Stone Librande, Through the Ages, Tzolkin: the Mayan Calendar, Vlaada Chvátil
Posted on June 3, 2020 by whovian223
It’s week 4 of my weekly look at the Boardgame Geek Top 100 games to see how many I’ve played and how many I even want to play. It’s a rather blah week, for a lot of reasons, but also just because there aren’t… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 70-61”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Adam Carlson, Alexander Pfister, Area Control, Bluffing, Board & Dice, Card Drafting, Chip Theory Games, CMON, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Crokinole, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dexterity Games, Dice-rolling, Dominion, Dominion: Intrigue, Donald X. Vaccarino, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, El Grande, Eldritch Horror, Eric Lang, Fantasy Flight Games, Josh J. Carlson, Lisboa, Miniatures, Mombasa, Nikki Valens, Richard Ulrich, Rio Grande Games, Rising Sun, Rondel Games, Teotihuacan, Too Many Bones, Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition, Vital Lacerda, Wolfgang Kramer, Worker Placement Games
Posted on May 27, 2020 by whovian223
It’s week 3 of our weekly look through the Boardgame Geek Top 100 to see what games I’ve played and which ones I may be interested in playing. Last week I got educated about Dominion, maybe even enough to try it again some day. What… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 80-71”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Aeon's End, Agricola, Alain Orban, Architects of the West Kingdom, Battlestar Galactica, Card Games, CodeNames, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Helmut Ohley, Hidden Traitor, Indie Boards & Cards, Kevin Riley, Leonhard Orgler, Lookout Games, Marvel Champsions: the Card Game, Party Games, Patchwork, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, Roll for the Galaxy, Russian Railroads, Sébastien Dujardin, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tile-Laying Games, Tom Lehmann, Train Games, Troyes, Uwe Rosenberg, Vlaada Chvátil, Wei-Hwa Huang, Worker Placement Games, Xavier Georges, Zman Games
Posted on May 14, 2020 by whovian223
It’s no secret that I’ve been in a bit of blog doldrums over the last couple of weeks. The social isolation and not playing many games (none until last weekend, actually) except the apps that I do asynchronously, plus getting really busy at work… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 100-91”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Adam Sadler, Alchemists, App-related, Bernd Brunnhofer, Champions of Midgard, Clank in Space, Clank in Space: Apocalypse, Clank in Space: Cyber Station 11, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Cranio Creations, Crossroads, Czech Games Edition, Daniel Clark, Dead of Winter, Deckbuilders, Descent: Journeys into the Dark (2nd Edition), Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dungeon Crawl, Fantasy Flight Games, Flaminia Brasini, Forbidden Stars, Grand Austria Hotel, Grey Fox Games, Hisashi Hayashi, Isaac Vega, James Kniffen, Jonathan Gilmour, Kevin Wilson, Lookout Games, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Matúš Kotry, Ole Steiness, One vs Many, Paul Dennen, Plaid Hat Games, Renegade Games Studios, Samuel Bailey, Simone Luciani, Stone Age, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Virginio Gigli, Worker Placement Games, Yokohama, Zman Games
Posted on February 4, 2020 by whovian223
It’s a brand new year! And this time, I can actually say that while talking about 2020 games (unlike last month). January was a busy month for new-to-me games. I went to two conventions on back-to-back weekends (that was a lot of fun but… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2020 (Part 1)”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Area Control, Bag Building, Bunny Kingdom, Caleb Grace, Card Drafting, Circadians: First Light, Corey Konieczka, Daily Magic Games, Dice Placement, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Henry Audobon, Horizons, Iello Games, Isaias Vallejo, Keymaster Games, Levi Mote, Living Card Games, Lunch Time Games, Marvel Champsions: the Card Game, Michael Boggs, Nate French, North Star Games, Parks, Pick Up & Deliver, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Garfield, Rick Holzgrafe, Set Collection Games, SJ MacDonald, Star Wars: Outer Rim, Tableau-building, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tile-Laying Games, Tony Fanchi, Villages of Valeria, Wolfgang Warsch
This is a blog about board games, with the occasional other post for a bit of spice.