Posted on December 14, 2025
by whovian223
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Sorry to break the “weekly” routine, but other posts needed to happen last week. But hey, at least it’s Sunday! Ok, that’s part of the next week, but still It’s time for another look through the Boardgame Geek top game rankings, this time in… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1301 Through 1400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, A Distant Plain, Action Selection, ADC Blackfire Entertainment, Alderac, Ambush!, Andean Abyss, Calimala, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Castle Panic, Claim, COIN Games, Cooperative Games, Deduction, Diamonds, Dice-rolling, Falling Sky, Fireside Games, For the People, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Machi Koro, Pandasaurus Games, Ravensburger, Renegade Games Studios, Riftforce, Search for Lost Species, Smash Up: Monster Smash, Strike, Stronghold Games, Trick-taking games, Victory Games, Wargames, White Goblin Games, Wilderness War
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$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Devir, Diamonds, Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Flatout Games, Galactic Cruise, Gizmos, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jackie Fox, Kinson Key Games, Kosmos, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Oddland, Origin Story, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, Roll and Move, Schadenfreude, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Pepper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, The Gang, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games
Posted on June 18, 2025
by whovian223
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I love game conventions. Not only do they give me even more of an opportunity to play great games, but it gives me the opportunity to game and chat with many people who I don’t see very often. That’s why Bottoscon is one of… Continue Reading “Bottoscon Spring 2025 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Archaeology - The New Expedition, Bottoscon Spring, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card Shedding, COIN Games, Cover Your A$$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 December 29, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s the last Friday of 2023, and possibly my last post, so I hope you all have a wonderful new year’s celebration and everything that is good in the upcoming year. I want to thank you again for stopping by, having a libation or… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Trick Taking Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Bezier Games, Card Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Diamonds, GMT Games, Schadenfreude, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, The Barracks Emperors, Tichu, Trick-taking games
Posted on November 17, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s another clear, and cold, Friday night, but it’s warm here in the bar, isn’t it? I think I turned up the heat. Or maybe I just have a bad fever. Either way, have a seat and let me get you your favourite libation!… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Playing with Non-Gamers?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Architects of the West Kingdom, Arkham Horror: the Card Game, Brass: Birmingham, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Diamonds, Flash Point, Food Chain Magnate, Imhotep, Marvel Legendary, Schadenfreude, Ticket to Ride, Twilight Imperium : 4th Edition, Uno
Posted on March 15, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s Wednesday and part of me is still coming down from the high of a weekend full of boardgames! For the first time since March 2019, the annual (until COVID, damn it) Terminal City Tabletop Convention was held in my hometown of Vancouver this… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2023”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Alexander Pfister, Aporta Games, Bad Company, Bingo, Bot Factory, Card Games, Christian Kang, Contracts, Czech Games Edition, Diamonds, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Eilif Svensson, Eric Mosso, Franz-Benno Delonge, Gamelyn Games, Garphill Games, João Quintela Martins, John D Clair, Kenneth Minde, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Mike Fitzgerald, Oh My Goods, Peter B. Hoffgaard, Plumpy Thimble, Renegade Games Studios, Scott Almes, Set Collection Games, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Starship Captains, Stronghold Games, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tiny Epic Galaxies, Transamerica, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Winsome Games
Posted on January 22, 2019
by whovian223
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It’s been almost three years in the making, but I almost hit 300 games played since I started recording plays and I thought it would be a great idea to give you what my top 25 games played are. Thanks to Pub Meeple for… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time (25-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andreas Steding, Bezier Games, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Diamonds, Gugong, Merchant of Venus, Mike Fitzgerald, Pick Up & Deliver, Ravensburger, Richard Hamblen, Stefan Feld, Stronghold Games, Suburbia, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Ted Alspach, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on August 27, 2018
by whovian223
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Every August, there is a wonderful boardgaming convention in Bellevue, Washington, called Dragonflight. It’s been held at the Hilton hotel there, and I’ve been going to it since 2015. This past weekend was the 2018 version of it, and it was just as much… Continue Reading “Dragonflight 39 – Another Successful Convention”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Alderac, Bezier Games, Cat Lady, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Diamonds, Eldritch Horror, Fantastic Factories, Fantasy Flight Games, Gale Force 9, Grandpa Beck's, Herbaceous, Majesty for the Realm, Palace of Mad King Ludwig, Pandasaurus Games, Pencil First Games, Prodigals Club, Raiders of the North Sea, Renegade Games Studios, Social media, Spartacus, Stronghold Games, Valley of the Kings: Last Rites, Wasteland Express Delivery Service, Zman Games
Posted on March 20, 2017
by whovian223
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(Edit: This is one of my Top 25 Games Played of all Time, as of February 2019 anyway. Check out the other games as well!) Everybody knows those standard card games. Hearts, Spades…of course the world needs games for the other suits, don’t they?… Continue Reading “Review – Diamonds”
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