Tag: Czech Games Edition
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
Posted on March 3, 2026
by whovian223
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I thought February was going to be a big month for games, with two days of a convention at the end of the month of on top of our normal gaming. Sadly, me getting sick for over a week eliminated one Sunday along with… Continue Reading “February 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, BG Stats, Cape May, Card Games, Combat Commander: Europe/Med Master Edition, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Earth, Eldritch Horror, Fantasy Flight Games, Fort, GMT Games, Inside Up Games, Leder Games, Rio Grande Games, Roll for the Galaxy, SETI, SETI: Space Agencies, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Thunderworks Games, Tokaido
Posted on February 4, 2026
by whovian223
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Now we’ve gone and done it. We’ve now reached the Top 10 games of all time, played by me at least. It’s been an incredible 5 weeks (ok, 6, but last week’s Friday post was important) of new games, oldies dropping in the rankings,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#10-1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Ark Nova, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Chad Jensen, Christian Leonard, Civolution, Combat Commander: Europe, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice Drafting, Dice Placement, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Jason Matthews, Lisboa, Lookout Games, Mathias Wigge, Pegasus Spiele, Prodigals Club, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Stefan Feld, Tableau-building, Virginio Gigli, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Vital Lacerda, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 23, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s time once again for another decade in my Top 50 games played of all time. It’s been a thrilling ride for me, because I really enjoy sharing the games I love and seeing if anybody agrees with me, or if I’m out on… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#20-11)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, AJ Porfirio, Alexander Pfister, Asymmetric Games, Capstone Games, Clank in Space, CMYK, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Delicious Games, Dennis Northcott, Devir, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Evan Derrick, Final Girl, Galactic Cruise, Jackie Fox, Kinson Key Games, Koltin Thompson, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Paul Dennen, Pirates of Maracaibo, Racing Game, Ralph Bienert, Renegade Games Studios, Resafa, Richard Garfield, Rock Hard 1977, Roll and Move, Rondel Games, Ryan Hendrickson, SETI, Solo Games, T.K. King, Takashi Ishida, Tomáš Holek, Underwater Cities, Van Ryder Games, Vladimír Suchý, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 27, 2025
by whovian223
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Sorry for breaking the weekly schedule, those of you who have been following these posts so religiously (hi, Bob!) Last week had other important posts to do that didn’t take quite as much time, because these posts do take a lot of effort and… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1501 Through 1600”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: A Gest of Robin Hood, Action Selection, Alderac, Area Control, Area Movement, BoardgameTables.com, Card Games, CMYK, COIN Games, Contracts, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Game Brewer, GMT Games, Hostage Negotiator, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Middle Ages, Mountain Goats, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Renegade Games Studios, Route-building, Sentient, Smash Up, Smash Up: It's Your Fault, Starship Captains, Stroganov, Tableau-building, TEN, The Hunger, Transamerica, Van Ryder Games, Variable Player Powers, White Goblin Games, Winsome Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 5, 2025
by whovian223
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It’s Friday! Time for another look at 100 games on the Boardgame Geek top rankings. Ok, last week’s was Wednesday, and the week before was Thursday. It hasn’t taken its Metamucil yet. Just go with it, ok? It’s going to be weekly, but not… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1201 Through 1300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1254, 1268, 1285, 1288, Action Selection, Adventure Games, Arcane Wonders, Artipia Games, Bad Company, Bezier Games, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Comic Hunters, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Empire's End, Fallout, Fantasy Flight Games, Flick of Faith, Galileo Galilei, GMT Games, Jump Drive, Lunch Time Games, Memoir '44, Moon Colony Bloodbath, Pandasaurus Games, Pretty Pretty Smash Up, Prodigals Club, Rebel Princess, Resist!, Rio Grande Games, Rock Hard 1977, Smash Up, Solo Games, Space Base, Star Wars: Battle of Hoth, The Game, Time of Crisis, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Witchcraft!, Worker Placement Games
Posted on November 22, 2025
by whovian223
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Anybody who has followed this blog for any length of time knows that The Prodigals Club is one of my favourite games. So this review may be a bit superfluous. However, I’ve never really talked in detail about the game, so why don’t we… Continue Reading “Making Everybody Hate You – The Prodigals Club Review”
Posted on November 20, 2025
by whovian223
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Recently the “This Game is Broken” podcast did a “Higher or Lower” game based on games in the Boardgame Geek rankings from 1000 to 2000. (You should really check them out, by the way. Hilarious boardgame podcast) During the Covid lockdowns, in order to… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1000 Through 1100 – Thoughts”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1989: Dawn of Freedom, Adrenaline, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, boardgamegeek, Capstone Games, Card-Driven Game, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Castles of Mad King Ludwig Collector's Edition, Coffee Traders, Czech Games Edition, Deduction, Economic Games, Friedrich, GMT Games, Hidden Movement, Histogame, One vs Many, Point to Point Movement, Rebellion Unplugged, Sniper Elite: the Board Game, Tile-Laying Games, Washington's War, Worker Placement Games, Yedo, Yedo: Deluxe Master Set
Posted on November 11, 2025
by whovian223
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This past weekend was the 19th annual Bottoscon convention at the Inn at the Quay in New Westminster, Canada. We’re almost at 20! The con is run by Rob Bottos, a great guy who has taken to heart what many of us Canadians have… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2025 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, AllPlay, Aporta Games, Artipia Games, Bad Company, Bottoscon, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cascadia, CMON, CMYK, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Devir, Diamonds, Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Flatout Games, Galactic Cruise, Gizmos, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jackie Fox, Kinson Key Games, Kosmos, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Oddland, Origin Story, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, Roll and Move, Schadenfreude, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Pepper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, The Gang, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games
Posted on October 31, 2025
by whovian223
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Who knew that after my 1000th post celebration, the next one would just be a regular “hey, what did Dave play last month?” post? In other words, we’re back to normal. The cake has been eaten, the ado has been stored so nobody can… Continue Reading “October 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Can't Stop, Card-Crafting Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Combat Commander, Czech Games Edition, Dead Reckoning, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Final Girl, GMT Games, Hypnagogue podcast, Lunch Time Games, Push Your Luck Games, SETI, Solo Games, Trick-taking games, Van Ryder Games