Tag: Drafting Games
Posted on August 3, 2025
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It’s funny, but no matter how bad a month might be as far as playing games, I usually get a decent number of “new to me” games played. I thought July would be slow, but it ended up being pretty normal. I also thought,… Continue Reading “New to Me – July 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Arcane Wonders, Betting, Blue Panther Games, Card-Driven Game, CMYK, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Eggertspiele, Era: Medieval Age, Eric Olsen, Flip 7, Hot Streak, Jon Perry, Land and Freedom, Matt Leacock, Polyomino Games, The Op, Tile-Laying Games, World Wonders, Zé Mendes
Posted on August 1, 2025
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Being off for almost the entire month of July, I wasn’t expecting much on the gaming front. However, I managed to attended a Wednesday night meet-up a couple of times, which greatly helped take the place of our normal lunchtime games at work, at… Continue Reading “July 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: 2-Player Games, Arcane Wonders, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Card Games, Card Shedding, Combat Commander, Contracts, Cosmodrome Games, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Favor of the Pharaoh, GMT Games, Little Dog Games, Lookout Games, NEOM, Push Your Luck Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Smartphone Inc, Spring Cleaning, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames
Posted on June 2, 2025
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May was a very good month for new to me games. I got one of my new games to the table, played a couple that I’ve been dying to play for a while now, and was introduced to a few that I didn’t even… Continue Reading “New to Me – May 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Cocktail Games, Cole Wehrle, Deckbuilders, Devir, Dire Wolf Digital, Drafting Games, Dune Imperium: Uprising, Ferran Renalias, Fishing, Friedemann Friese, Gerard Ascensi, Ion Game Design, Jo Kelly, Lacrimosa, Middle Ages, Molly House, Nana, Oliver Kiley, Paul Dennen, Pax Illuminaten, Rio Grande Games, Set Collection Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Trio, Wehrlegig Games, Worker Placement Games, 宮野 華也 (Kaya Miyano)
Posted on March 6, 2025
by whovian223
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Welcome to another in the continuing series (8 years and running!) of “new to me” boardgames posts. In a few days, I’ll be celebrating 8 years of blogging, and one of the things I am proud of is that I have never missed a… Continue Reading “New to Me – February 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Points, Action Selection, Antoine Bauza, Antonio Zax, Bruno Cathala, Burnt Island Games, Caleb Grace, Card Drafting, Carl de Visser, Connections, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Endeavor: Deep Sea, Fantasia Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Havalandi, Jarratt Gray, Jonny Pac Cantin, Laskas, Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth, Lunch Time Games, MLEM Space Agency, Pegasus Spiele, Push Your Luck Games, Rebel Studio, Reiner Knizia, Repos Games, Star Wars: the DeckBuilding Game, Unconscious Mind, Yoma
Posted on November 1, 2024
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October was a really bad month. Not just for gaming, but in general as well. I was sick for a week and I’m still not feeling 100% even a week later after I went back to work. But for gaming, it really sucked! There… Continue Reading “October 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Azul, Cascadia, Drafting Games, Flatout Games, Formal Ferret Games, Gil Hova, Plan B Games, The Networks, The Networks: the Executives, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on June 16, 2024
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Welcome to the first in a periodic series of posts where I give my first impressions on a game that I don’t think I’m going to end up playing enough to actually write a review for it. I broached this subject in a previous… Continue Reading “First Impressions – Harmonies”
Posted on January 4, 2024
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It’s a new year, but let’s take one last look at the old year before we continue on! December was not a huge month for new to me games, as I detailed earlier. But quality trumps quantity, so even though there are only three… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Bag Building, Card Games, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Garphill Games, Hand Management, Kayenta Games, Obsession, Renegade Games Studios, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tichu, Trick-taking games, Urs Hostettler
Posted on December 8, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s been a week since my last post. And wow, what a week. Ok, it wasn’t that bad, but I just needed a bit of a recharge and decided not to think too much about writing this week. More stuff coming next week, definitely.… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Drafting Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: 2-Player Games, 7 Wonders, 7 Wonders Duel, Ankama Games, Ark Nova, Artipia Games, Ascension, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Castles of Burgundy, Czech Games Edition, Drafting Games, Draftosaurus, Dune Imperium, Fields of Green, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Ravensburger, Repos Games, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization, Vale of Eternity
Posted on February 6, 2023
by whovian223
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January 2023 was a great month for gaming, especially with OrcaCon and everything. I’ve already told you about the new games I played, but here’s my month in review. (Many thanks to BG Stats for the ability to do stuff like this!) For me,… Continue Reading “January 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: BG Stats, Block Wargames, CMON, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Contracts, Drafting Games, Gizmos, GMT Games, Jacob Fryxelius, Nick Little, On Mars, Phil Walker-Harding, Richard Borg, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 10, 2023
by whovian223
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OrcaCon is a convention held in Bellevue, Washington in January every year. Sadly, I wasn’t able to go last year and the two years before that…well, something happened. I’m not really sure what. I went to my first OrcaCon in January 2020 and then… Continue Reading “OrcaCon 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Alexander Pfister, Andrew Parks, Atlas Games, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Bluffing, Calico, Card Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Charioteer, CMON, Contracts, Core Worlds, David Fooden, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, Elizabeth Hargrave, Engine-building, Gizmos, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Kevin Russ, Lunch Time Games, Matt Calkins, Monster Couch, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Nick Little, Nicolas Robert, On Mars, Pearl Games, Phil Walker-Harding, Racing Game, Rondel Games, Seals of Cthulhu, Sean Epperson, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, The Bloody Inn, Thing 12 Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wingspan, Wingspan: Asia, Wingspan: European Expansion, Wingspan: Oceania expansion, Yukon Salon