Posted on February 26, 2024
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It’s the first month of the year! And it’s also almost the end of February. Yes, it took so much energy to get my Top 50 games played of all time done, along with getting sick recently, that we’re into the last week of… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Adam Porter, Alain Epron, Alexander Pfister, BLAM Games, Board & Dice, Card Games, Claim, Clever 4Ever, Cody Miller, Daily Magic Games, Daniel McKinley, David Turczi, Dice Drafting, Economic Games, Eric Zimmerman, Far Off Games, Funforge Games, German Railroads, Guild Academies of Valeria, Helmut Ohley, Helvetiq Games, Hit Me!, I Found Bigfoot, John David Wood, Kompromat, Leonhard Orgler, Luc Rémond, Lunch Time Games, Matches, Mike A Pratt, Nucleum, Pegasus Spiele, Pick Up & Deliver, Port Royal, Puppy Pile, Push Your Luck Games, Quantum, Quined Games, Rob Fisher, Roll and Write Games, Romaric Galonnier, Russian Railroads, Schmidt Spiele, Scott Almes, Set Collection Games, Simone Luciani, Space Games, Splito, Stan Kordonskiy, Thing 12 Games, Trick-taking games, Tricky Dicks, Vanuatu, White Goblin Games, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Wryknot Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Z-Man Games
Posted on February 9, 2024
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Welcome back! I know it’s been a couple of weeks, but I was taking some time putting a new bar up. With heated seats! I hope that works ok and isn’t a fire hazard. Oops. Anyway, have a seat and let me get you… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Old vs New?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Ark Nova, Board & Dice, Daily Magic Games, Explorers of the North Sea, Ezra & Nehemiah, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Guild Academies of Valeria, Jump Drive, Nucleum, Obsession, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shipwrights of the North Sea - Redux, Smash Up, Stationfall
Posted on January 21, 2024
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Two weeks and two entries into this list. Maybe I’ll be able to actually do this weekly, unlike in 2022! It was interesting doing a Top 50 rather than a Top 25. Some games have fallen enough that they wouldn’t even be listed if… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#40-31)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Alderac, Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, Block Wargames, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Contracts, Cosmodrome Games, Daily Magic Games, Darwin's Journey, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Economic Games, Eilif Svensson, Formal Ferret Games, Garphill Games, Gil Hova, GMT Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Helge Meissner, Ivan Lashin, John D Clair, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Nestore Mangone, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Ravensburger, Renegade Games Studios, Revive, Richard Borg, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Smartphone Inc, Space Base, Stan Kordonskiy, Stefan Feld, The Networks, Thundergryph Games, Tile-Laying Games, Virginio Gigli, Wargames
Posted on January 18, 2024
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Sometimes you just have to get on top of things right at the outset rather than waiting for things to settle down. That can also be the case with storage solutions for board games! Ok, probably not all the time, but in this case… Continue Reading “Guild Academies of Valeria – Storage Solution from Folded Space”
Posted on January 9, 2024
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Another year, another OrcaCon has passed. I first went to OrcaCon in 2020, but then some world-wide event that I can’t seem to remember stopped me from going again until last year. I wish it would come to me. Anyway, this last weekend was… Continue Reading “OrcaCon 2024 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, BLAM Games, Card Games, Claim, CMON, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Dice of Crowns, Dice-rolling, Engine-building, Far Off Games, Fire in the Library, Funforge Games, Gizmos, Guild Academies of Valeria, Helvetiq Games, Hit Me!, I Found Bigfoot, Kompromat, Matches, OrcaCon, Our Family Plays Games, Pegasus Spiele, Port Royal, Puppy Pile, Push Your Luck Games, Quantum, Quined Games, Schadenfreude, Set Collection Games, Splito, Studio Turbine, Thing 12 Games, Trick-taking games, Tricky Dicks, Vanuatu, Weird Giraffe Games, White Goblin Games, Wryknot Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System
Posted on December 22, 2023
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It’s the last Friday before Christmas and all through the malls, too many creatures were stirring, so much so that I would rather carve Shem Phillips’ initials into my hand with a penknife than go shopping. I think that’s how that old Christmas poem… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Catch Up Mechanisms”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Auction Games, Cryptozoic, Daily Magic Games, DC Comics Deck-Building Game, Dice Drafting, Food Chain Magnate, Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism and Other Ideas, Formal Ferret Games, GMT Games, Isle of Skye, Mayfair Games, Power Grid, Rio Grande Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Splotter Spellen, The Networks, Twilight Struggle, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 21, 2023
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Who knew being evil could be so much fun? There aren’t a whole lot of boardgames where you are playing the bad guy (unless you’re in a one vs many game). A well-respected one that I’d love to play sometime is Dungeon Lords from… Continue Reading “Review – Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria”
Posted on November 28, 2023
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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 November 10, 2023
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Hey there! It’s been a while, I know. It seems like you were just in here last week! Take a seat at the bar and take a load off. I’ll get you anything you want. Let me turn down the jukebox. Who put MC… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Update & Upcoming Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Brotherwise Games, Contracts, Daily Magic Games, Empire's End, GMT Games, Guild Academies of Valeria, John D Clair, Mike Denson, No Thanks, Paul Hellyer, Prime Minister, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria - Riftlands, Stan Kordonskiy, The Last Hundred Yards Volume IV: The Russian Front, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames
Posted on September 15, 2023
by whovian223
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Hey there! It’s another Friday night! Thanks for braving the crowd. I made a space here at the bar for you. Yes, I was joking. You are the only one here. For now, anyway! Have a drink. Whatever you like. Let me turn down… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Playing Low-Rated Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: 3012, AssassinCon, Atlas Games, Card Games, Cryptozoic, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Dexterity Games, Dice-rolling, Hidden Roles, Kitten Klash, Lucky Loop, Lunch Time Games, Mayday Games, Queen Games, Yukon Salon
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