Posted on June 1, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s been another slower month of gaming this last May, again because one of our Sundays was cancelled (this month due to Mother’s Day…stupid moms!) This month, I had the same number of plays (19) as April but only 11 games instead of 13.… Continue Reading “May 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Aces of Valor, Card Games, Combat Commander, Czech Games Edition, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Folded Space, Galaxy Trucker, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Jump Drive, Jump Drive - Terminal Velocity, Legion Wargames, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, The City, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris
Posted on April 3, 2023
by whovian223
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March was a good month for gaming, with a convention and numerous lunch time plays at work as well as some hefty Sunday game days as well. As noted in my March gaming post, I played 21 games! Seven of them were even new… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Aces of Valor, Action Selection, Alderac, Bot Factory, Card Games, Czech Games Edition, David Thompson, Dice Placement, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Earth, Erik von Rossing, Garphill Games, Hidden Roles, Inside Up Games, Ion Game Design, João Quintela Martins, Legion Wargames, Lunch Time Games, Matt Eklund, Maxime Tardif, Peter B. Hoffgaard, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Solo Games, Starship Captains, Stationfall, Tableau-building, Trevor Benjamin, Vital Lacerda, War Chest, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, World War I Games
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 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
Posted on October 1, 2021
by whovian223
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This review actually has more twists and turns than a City Council meeting trying to issue a policy that will please all of its residents. I guess I should identify the game I’m talking about first, though. The City is a tableau-building card game… Continue Reading “Review – The City”
Posted on September 17, 2021
by whovian223
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It was a close one this week. Yes, I almost didn’t get this post done so that it would post this week at all. That would break my streak and we know that we can’t have that. But here it is! We’re three episodes… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #230-221”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alien Frontiers, Area Control, Battle Line, Card Games, Clever Mojo Games, Colby Dauch, Corey Konieczka, Dead of Winter: The Long Night, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Economic Games, Escape Room, Exit: The Abandoned Cabin, Fantasy Flight Games, Funtails, Glen More II: Chronicles, GMT Games, Hidden Traitor, Indonesia, Inka Brand, Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga, Kosmos, Mac Gerdts, Markus Brand, Matthias Cramer, Miniatures, Navegador, Plaid Hat Games, Reiner Knizia, Rio Grande Games, Rococo, Rondel Games, Rune Wars, Splotter Spellen, Summoner Wars: Master Set, Tory Niemann
Posted on February 15, 2021
by whovian223
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Wow, I’m lazy. Either that, or I’ve been in a bad mental space. You know, 2021 was supposed to be better, but so far it’s barely been marginally better and that’s only because 2020 sucked so much. I finished the Top 200 BGG games… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #300-291”
Category: Board GamesTags: 51st State Master Set, Asmodee North America, At the Gates of Loyang, Bernd Brunnhofer, Bruxelles 1893, Card Games, Carl de Visser, Christian Marcussen, Clash of Cultures, Claustrophobia, Croc, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Endeavor: Age of Sail, Etienne Espreman, For Sale, Hans im Gluck, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Jarratt Gray, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Michael Rieneck, Pearl Games, Portal Games, Saint Petersburg, Stefan Dorra, Stefan Stadler, Tasty Minstrel Grames, The Pillars of the Earth, Uwe Rosenberg, Z-Man Games
Posted on December 23, 2020
by whovian223
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‘Twas the day before the day before the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. (Certainly not this blogger.) The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Vital would… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #120-111”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Acram Digital, Age of Steam, Alan R Moon, Alderac, Area Control, Area Movement, Ben Cichoski, Bob Naismith, Card Drafting, Carl de Visser, Chaos in the Old World, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Cranio Creations, Daniel Mandel, Darwin Kastle, Days of Wonder, Dead of Winter, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Endeavor: Age of Sail, Eric Lang, Fantasy Flight Games, Francesco Nepitello, Hand Management, Isaac Vega, Istanbul, Jarratt Gray, Jonathan Gilmour, Legendary Encounters: an Alien Deck Building Game, Marco Maggi, Martin Wallace, Modular Board, Plaid Hat Games, Point to Point Movement, Rüdiger Dorn, Robert Dougherty, Roberto Di Meglio, Set Collection Games, Star Realms, Ticket to Ride: Europe, Train Games, Upper Deck, Vinhos: Deluxe Edition, Vital Lacerda, War of the Ring, White Wizard Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 9, 2020
by whovian223
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After three weeks or so, it’s time for another entry in the BGG Top 200! We’re almost done, which you would think would mean that I could actually get these done in a timely manner. But, you know, COVID and everything. Yeah, I do… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #130-121”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, A Game of Thrones: the Board Game (2nd Edition), Action Selection, Andreas Steiger, Area Movement, Auction Games, Benoit Turpin, Bezier Games, Brian Lewis, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Christian T. Petersen, Chronicles of Crime, Cooperative Games, David Cicurel, Deduction, Deep Water Games, Dinosaur Island, Don Eskridge, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Glenn Drover, GMT Games, Indie Boards & Cards, Jonathan Gilmour, Kosmos, Lucky Duck Games, Manuel Rozoy, Martin Wallace, Mindclash Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Negotiation Games, Pandasaurus Games, Peggy Chassenet, Railways of the World, Richard Amann, Roll and Write Games, Set Collection Games, Social Deduction Games, Space Cowboys, Storytelling Games, T.I.M.E. Stories, Targi, Ted Alspach, The Resistance: Avalon, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Trickerion, Viktor Peter, Welcome To..., Worker Placement Games
Posted on June 10, 2020
by whovian223
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With this post we’re half-way through the BGG Top 100 and I have to say that this has been a fun project for me. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have. One thing going through this list does for me is… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 60-51”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Area Control, Auction Games, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Caylus, Chad Jensen, Clank, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dominant Species, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Fields of Arle, Five Tribes, GMT Games, Huch & Friends, Keyflower, Lords of Waterdeep, Mancala games, Paul Dennen, Peter Lee, Race for the Galaxy, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Breese, Rio Grande Games, Rodney Thompson, Sebastian Bleasdale, Tableau-building, The Gallerist, Tom Lehmann, Underwater Cities, Uwe Rosenberg, Vital Lacerda, Vladimír Suchý, William Attia, Wizards of the Coast, Worker Placement Games, Ystari Games, Zman Games
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