Posted on December 1, 2025
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I knew November would be much better than October for my gaming, because there’s a really nice 4-day convention in November. I didn’t expect that it would be this much better, though! In November, I managed to play 36 games a total of 57… Continue Reading “November 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Bomb Busters, Bottoscon, Card Games, Combat Commander, Cover Your A$$ets, Deckbuilders, Doomlings, Dune Imperium, Ecos: First Continent, Final Girl, Galactic Cruise, Hansa Teutonica, Inventors of the South Tigris, Inventors of the South Tigris - Era of Experts, Lunch Time Games, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, SETI, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on November 26, 2025
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Last week’s post talking about some of the games just outside of the Top 1000 on Boardgame Geek seemed to be a big hit. Maybe not in terms of visitors to this site, but with friends of mine, sparking some discussion. In the hopes… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1101 Through 1200 – Thoughts”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1104, A Study in Emerald, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Area Majority, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Cat Lady, Cooperative Games, Ecos: First Continent, Engine-building, Explorers of the North Sea, Flatout Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Greater Than Games, Here I Stand, Linko!, Lunch Time Games, Majesty for the Realm, Point City, Racing Game, Resist!, Salt & Pepper Games, Science Fiction Double Feature, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition, Set Collection Games, Solo Games, Thunder Alley, Tile-Laying Games, Treefrog Games, Virgin Queen, Worlds Fair 1893, Z-Man Games
Posted on November 14, 2025
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There was a farmer had a dog and Ecos was his name-o. E..C..O..S….Uh, Mr. Clair? We need another letter please? Thank you. Why do I reference this old children’s song? Are you a fan of Bingo but think you need something a bit more… Continue Reading “Creating a World From Scratch – Ecos: First Continent Review”
Posted on November 11, 2025
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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 December 1, 2024
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With Bottoscon at the beginning of the month, you knew that November would be chock full of gaming goodness. And it was! Maybe not quite as much as might have been otherwise, since we missed a Sunday game day and the next one had… Continue Reading “November 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Avalon Hill, BG Stats, Devir, Ecos: First Continent, Garphill Games, Merchant of Venus, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Schadenfreude, The White Castle
Posted on November 15, 2024
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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$$ets, Devir, Dice Hate Me Games, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, DV Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Economic Games, Ecos: First Continent, Fantastic Factories, Fryx Games, Gamewright Games, Grandpa Beck's, Let's Go to Japan, Lunch Time Games, Merchant of Venus, MESA Boardgames, Metafactory Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Next Move Games, Oink Games, Panamax, Pick Up & Deliver, Push Your Luck Games, Qwixx, Rio Grande Games, Rock Hard 1977, Roll for the Galaxy, Schadenfreude, SCOUT, Star Trek: Lower Decks - Buffer Time: The Card Game, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Take-That games, Terraforming Mars, The White Castle, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on August 31, 2023
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Dragonflight was my first convention ever, back in 2015 (I think). It’s held at the same hotel in Bellevue, Washington, as OrcaCon is held (though the hotel rooms are a lot more expensive, being in the Summer instead of January like OrcaCon). Thus, it… Continue Reading “Dragonflight 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Archaeology - The New Expedition, Area Control, Artana Games, Capstone Games, Card Games, Cascadia, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dice Placement, Dokmus, Dr. Finn's Games, Dragonflight, Ecos: First Continent, Eldritch Horror, Fantasy Flight Games, Flatout Games, Grandpa Beck's, Herbaceous, Indie Boards & Cards, John D Clair, Prodigals Club, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, Rise, Route-building, Set Collection Games, Social Deduction Games, Space Cowboys, Speakeasy Blues, The Resistance, Thurn and Taxis, Tile-Laying Games, Unlock: Heroic Adventures, Valley of the Kings, Z-Man Games
Posted on March 15, 2023
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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 November 1, 2021
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Now this is more like it. October was a great month for gaming, with me playing 19 different games in the month. This included six new to me games and two new to me expansions! What a cornucopia of games! Well, those aren’t games,… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2021”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alderac, Anno 1800, Ben Pinchback, Ben Rosset, Card Games, David Turczi, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Ecos: First Continent, Ecos: New Horizon, Elizabeth Hargrave, Expansions, Foxtrot Games, Gary Arant, GMT Games, Grid Movement, Imperium: Classics, Jared Saramago, Jason Zila, Jerry White, John D Clair, Justin Gary, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Mariposas, Mark Aasted, Martin Wallace, Mataio Wilson, Matt Riddle, Matthew O'Malley, Nigel Buckle, Osprey Games, Renegade Games Studios, Resource Management, Ryan Sutherland, Set Collection Games, Shards of Infinity, Shards of Infinity: Into the Horizon, Storm Above the Reich, Subastral, The Search for Planet X, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames
Posted on March 26, 2021
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Alderac Entertainment Group really needs to work at their hype machine. One of my favourite new games in 2020 was Ecos: First Continent, which is a world-building game where players are trying to build a world and get points by putting terrain tiles out… Continue Reading “Ecos: New horizons Out Today!”
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