Tag: Dice-rolling
Posted on May 7, 2026
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Doing these weekly posts about these centuries of “top games” on Boardgame Geek have often been interesting because of the conversations they’ve sparked with friends and fans. But they’ve also been interesting because I’ve seen some unexpected movement in the games I’m seeing. For… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2801-2900”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Alley Cat Games, Amun-Re, Amun-Re 20th Anniversary Edition, Area Control, Assyria, Auction Games, Bingo, Block Wargames, Brotherhood & Unity, Card-Driven Game, Colt Super Express, Columbia Games, Compass Games, Dice-rolling, General Orders: World War II, GMT Games, Hurrican Games, Indie Boards & Cards, Kokoro, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, New Amsterdam, Osprey Games, Programmed Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Richard III: The Wars of the Roses, Roll and Write Games, Silent Victory, Solo Games, Via Magica, Wargames, White Goblin Games, Worker Placement Games, Ystari Games
Posted on April 30, 2026
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I know I have said this before, but looking at the next couple of centuries in the Boardgame Geek top games rankings, at least the next couple of weeks are going to be very bare bones. I haven’t played a lot of them and… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2701 – 2800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Age of Comics: The Golden Years, Block Wargames, Card-Driven Game, Columbia Games, Cooperative Games, Cranio Creations, Crusader Rex, Dale of Merchants 3, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Game Salute, Iron Curtain, Jolly Roger Games, Legendary Encounters: The X-Files, Lirius Games, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, My Shelfie, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Shadowrift 2nd Edition, Snowdale Design, Steve Jackson Games, Ultra Pro, Upper Deck, Wargames, We the People, Worker Placement Games, Zombie Dice
Posted on March 11, 2026
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It’s been a short hiatus for these posts since I’ve had end of month stuff to do, but after a couple of weeks, we are back! Once again we are going through a century of games rated on Boardgame Geek, from 2101 to 2200.… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2101 – 2200”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Age of War, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Blam!, Brotherwise Games, Card-Driven Game, Chakra, COIN Games, Colonial Twilight, Daitoshi, Devir, Dice-rolling, Empire's End, Fantasy Flight Games, Favor of the Pharaoh, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Molly House, Rondel Games, Set Collection Games, Sports Games, Strat-O-Matic Baseball, The Expanse, Wehrlegig Games, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games
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
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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 January 12, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re starting to get down into the dregs of the Boardgame Geek Top 2000 games. Not dregs in that these are bad games, because considering there are thousands of games in the BGG database, the top 2000 are still fairly highly rated. But just… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1701 Through 1800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Action Selection, Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #2, Alderac, Bang!, Bot Factory, Card Games, Devir, Dice City, Dice-rolling, DV Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, Hasbro, Hit Z Road, Ierusalem: Anno Domini, Lookout Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Pearl Games, Resource Management, Rio Grande Games, Robo Rally, Rondel Games, Salton Sea, Space Cowboys, Space Station Phoenix, Staufer Dynasty, Tournay, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on December 27, 2025
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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 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 August 28, 2025
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The recent Kickstarter from Garphill Games with all of the South Tigris expansions recently showed up on my doorstep, so apologies for the fact that you’re going to be inundated with South Tigris content for a little bit! After getting through the Scholars of… Continue Reading “Trading Against the Tide – Tides of Trade Review (Wayfarers of the South Tigris Expansion)”