Posted on November 11, 2025
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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
Posted on October 26, 2025
by whovian223
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Action selection games usually don’t have a lot of theme to them, at least as far as the actions you are selecting from. Usually it’s like “oh, I select this noble to do this thing, and oh, supposedly I’m building some part of this… Continue Reading “Finding the Aliens Among Us – SETI Review”
Posted on July 3, 2025
by whovian223
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Ah, June. Halfway through the year (at the end of it anyway) and it’s good to take stock of where I am in my boardgaming. I’ve played more than half again the number of unique games as I did last year, meaning I (hopefully)… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, After Us, AJ Porfirio, Bill Fawcett, Card Games, Catch Up Games, COIN Games, Czech Games Edition, Darwin Bromley, David Karesh, Dice Drafting, Empire Builder, Evan Derrick, Fillers, Final Girl, Florian Sirieix, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Kenneth Tee, Lepidoptery, Lunch Time Games, Mayfair Games, Mob+, New Mill Industries, Pandasaurus Games, People Power, Pulsar 2849, Resource Management, Route-building, Shem Phillips, Skara Brae, Solo Games, Srinivas Vasudevan, Train Games, Trick & Snipers, Trick-taking games, Van Ryder Games, Vladimír Suchý, 宮野 華也 (Kaya Miyano)
Posted on July 1, 2025
by whovian223
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With a convention in June (Bottoscon for the win!), I knew that June would be a much better month for gaming than May was. That’s one reason I love convention months! Even so, there weren’t as many “new to me” games as in previous… Continue Reading “June 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Alderac, BG Stats, Card Drafting, Czech Games Edition, Days of Wonder, Dice-rolling, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Imhotep, Kosmos, Let's Go to Japan, Let's Go to Japan - Grab Your Passport, Prodigals Club, Res Arcana, Route-building, Sand Castle Games, Scholars of the South Tigris, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, Ticket to Ride
Posted on June 18, 2025
by whovian223
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I love game conventions. Not only do they give me even more of an opportunity to play great games, but it gives me the opportunity to game and chat with many people who I don’t see very often. That’s why Bottoscon is one of… Continue Reading “Bottoscon Spring 2025 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Archaeology - The New Expedition, Bottoscon Spring, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card Shedding, COIN Games, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Devir, Diamonds, Empire Builder, Fantastic Factories, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Jackie Fox, Lepidoptery, Let's Go to Japan, Let's Go to Japan - Grab Your Passport, Lunch Time Games, Mayfair Games, Metafactory Games, Mob+, New Mill Industries, Pandasaurus Games, People Power, Pick Up & Deliver, Prodigals Club, Pushing Cardboard, Rock Hard 1977, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, SETI, Stronghold Games, Trick & Snipers, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on April 4, 2025
by whovian223
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Welcome back to the bar! Last month, I mentioned how this is almost becoming a monthly thing instead of a weekly thing. That was…one month ago. I guess it is! Welcome to the finest bar in the city, because it’s so clean. It certainly… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – A Quick & Dirty Top 50”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night Shots, Top 10Tags: Civolution, Cranio Creations, Czech Games Edition, Delicious Games, Devir, Grand Austria Hotel, Heavy Cardboard, Lookout Games, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Pegasus Spiele, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, Shipyard (2nd Edition)
Posted on April 1, 2025
by whovian223
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As I mentioned in my March Games played post, I played a lot of games last month. Not only that, but a whole 14 of them were new to me! That means this post would be monstrously long if I tried to pack it… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2025 – Part 1”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Alessandro Zucchini, Bruno Faidutti, CMYK, Czech Games Edition, David Gordon, Deduction, Eric Lang, Finspan, Fives, Junghee Choi, Lunch Time Games, Michael O'Connell, Mighty Boards, Orapa Mine, Paolo Mori, Playte, Rebirth, Reiner Knizia, Repos Games, Secrets, SETI, Social Deduction Games, Stonemaier Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tomáš Holek, Toy Battle, Trick-taking games, Wanjin Gill
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 October 18, 2024
by whovian223
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I know what you’re thinking. Two Friday Night Shots posts in a row? That must mean Dave got the jukebox fixed! It’s amazing what paying your work people can actually do. Maybe that’s why I can’t keep a bartender? Anyway, welcome back! Pull up… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Top 1000 BGG Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: 1960: The Making of a President, Arboretum, Ark Nova, Capstone Games, Combat Commander: Pacific, Cosmodrome Games, Czech Games Edition, Deep Water Games, Fantastic Factories, First Rat, Formal Ferret Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Last Will, Metafactory Games, Pegasus Spiele, Renegade Games Studios, Smartphone Inc, Spyrium, The Networks, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Ystari Games