Posted on November 15, 2024
by whovian223
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Once again in November I was able to attend Bottoscon, the largest wargaming convention in the Pacific Northwest. This year, they managed to get over 150 attendees, which is amazing considering that when they began 18 years ago, they had 32 attendees. The convention… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2024 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 11 Nimmt!, 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Avalon Hill, Azul: Queen's Garden, Bang: the Dice Game, Bottoscon, Brew Crafters, Can't Stop, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cover Your A$$ets, Devir, Dice Hate Me Games, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, DV Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Economic Games, Ecos: First Continent, Fantastic Factories, Fryx Games, Gamewright Games, Grandpa Beck's, Let's Go to Japan, Lunch Time Games, Merchant of Venus, MESA Boardgames, Metafactory Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Next Move Games, Oink Games, Panamax, Pick Up & Deliver, Push Your Luck Games, Qwixx, Rio Grande Games, Rock Hard 1977, Roll for the Galaxy, Schadenfreude, SCOUT, Star Trek: Lower Decks - Buffer Time: The Card Game, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Take-That games, Terraforming Mars, The White Castle, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on October 12, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s been a month and the bar’s been closed! More renovations needed (and I’m just lazy, actually), but I’m glad you happened by and could stop in! The jukebox renovations took up most of the month, partially because I kept forgetting to pay the… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots (Saturday Edition) – What Attracts You to a Game?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Castle Combo, Catch Up Games, Civolution, Delicious Games, Devir, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Heavy Cardboard, Pegasus Spiele, Shipyard (2nd Edition), Stefan Feld, The White Castle, Time of Crisis
Posted on October 1, 2024
by whovian223
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September was a weird month for gaming, mainly because we didn’t play a lot at work because various people were away (or we just were so exhausted due to work stuff that we just wanted to hibernate at lunch). Thus, most (but not all)… Continue Reading “September 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Auction Games, BG Stats, Board & Dice, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Combat Commander: Pacific, Devir, Doomlings, Doomlings LLC, Faraway, GMT Games, Jackie Fox, Lunch Time Games, Renegade Games Studios, Rock Hard 1977, Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan: Expansion Period, Vale of Eternity, Vegas Showdown, Worker Placement Games
Posted on September 26, 2024
by whovian223
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In the 70s, I wonder how many kids wanted to grow up to be rock stars. I wasn’t one of them. While I am a child of the 70s, I wasn’t really listening to much rock music when I was growing up. My parents… Continue Reading “Sex, Candy, and Rock & Roll”
Posted on September 3, 2024
by whovian223
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July was not a great month for new to me games, but I had a feeling that August would make up for it, with a convention going on and everything. And it did! August was great for new to me games, with seven of… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Adam Hill, Adrian Adamescu, Alexander Pfister, AllPlay, Ben Pinchback, Capstone Games, Catch Up Games, Corentin Lebrat, Czech Games Edition, Daniel Piechnick, Daryl Andrews, Devir, Duel Games, Economic Games, Faraway, First Fish Games, Jackie Fox, Johannes Goupy, Kutná Hora, Lunch Time Games, Matt Riddle, Mistwind, Ondřej Bystroň, Pavel Jarosch, Petr Čáslava, Pick Up & Deliver, Pirates of Maracaibo, Radlands, Ralph Bienert, River Valley Glassworks, Rock Hard 1977, Roxley Games, Ryan Hendrickson, Tableau-building, Worker Placement Games
Posted on August 23, 2024
by whovian223
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This past weekend was the Dragonflight boardgame convention in Bellevue, Washington. I’ve gone down the last couple of years and used to go down before the pandemic, but this was the first year where most of my Vancouver contingent didn’t go down too. Thankfully,… Continue Reading “Dragonflight 2024 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Adam Hill, Adrian Adamescu, Alexander Pfister, AllPlay, Ben Pinchback, Capstone Games, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Corentin Lebrat, Czech Games Edition, Daryl Andrews, Devir, Dragonflight, Economic Games, Faraway, First Fish Games, Jackie Fox, Johannes Goupy, Kutná Hora, Lunch Time Games, Matt Riddle, Mistwind, Ondřej Bystroň, OrcaCon, Pavel Jarosch, Petr Čáslava, Pick Up & Deliver, Pirates of Maracaibo, Ralph Bienert, River Valley Glassworks, Rock Hard 1977, Ryan Hendrickson, Sean Epperson, Tableau-building, Thing 12 Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 28, 2024
by whovian223
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When I was first talking about movement on this list between 2022 and 2024, I wasn’t sure how much movement there would be in the Top 10. Those games are still great, shouldn’t they stay up there? Of course, some games might supplant them,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#30-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alexander Pfister, Architects of the West Kingdom, Bezier Games, Block Wargames, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Chad Jensen, Cole Wehrle, Combat Commander: Pacific, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Daniele Tascini, David Thompson, Devir, Dice Drafting, Eggertspiele, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hans im Gluck, Isra C, John Foley, Kai Jensen, Kei Kajino, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Oink Games, Renegade Games Studios, Resist!, Richard Borg, Roger Tankersley, Rondel Games, Root, Salt & Pepper Games, SCOUT, Shei S, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Solo Games, The White Castle, Trevor Benjamin, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on November 30, 2023
by whovian223
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With a convention coming in November, I had a feeling that this New to Me games list would get pretty hefty. Little did I know how hefty it would get! This was a big month for new to me games. Even better, many of… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, 999 Games, Action Selection, Amigo Spiel, Brotherwise Games, Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, Century: a New World, Codenames: Deep Undercover, Czech Games Edition, Devir, Dice Drafting, Emerson Matsuuchi, Empire's End, Fréderic Moyersoen, GMT Games, Hellapagos, Isra C, John D Clair, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Laurence Gamelin, Lunch Time Games, Mark Simonitch, Mike Denson, Party Games, Philippe Gamelin, Plan B Games, Saboteur: the Dark Cave, Shei S, Team Games, The White Castle, Vlaada Chvátil, Wargames, Worker Placement Games