Posted on October 7, 2024
by whovian223
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This post has been a bit delayed, for reasons. Some of those reasons were me killing a whole bunch of Greek soldiers in Ancient Egypt in Assassin’s Creed: Origins, which is super-addicting right now. The game, not the killing. I’m fighting for Cleopatra! Or… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2024”
Category: Board GamesTags: Arcane Wonders, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Christopher Wray, Comic Hunters, Dice Placement, Emerson Matsuuchi, Foundations of Metropolis, Garphill Games, HUCH Games, Inventors of the South Tigris, Keyflower, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Breese, Robert Coelho, Set Collection Games, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Spin Master Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games, Xylotar
Posted on November 30, 2023
by whovian223
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With a convention coming in November, I had a feeling that this New to Me games list would get pretty hefty. Little did I know how hefty it would get! This was a big month for new to me games. Even better, many of… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, 999 Games, Action Selection, Amigo Spiel, Brotherwise Games, Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, Century: a New World, Codenames: Deep Undercover, Czech Games Edition, Devir, Dice Drafting, Emerson Matsuuchi, Empire's End, Fréderic Moyersoen, GMT Games, Hellapagos, Isra C, John D Clair, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Laurence Gamelin, Lunch Time Games, Mark Simonitch, Mike Denson, Party Games, Philippe Gamelin, Plan B Games, Saboteur: the Dark Cave, Shei S, Team Games, The White Castle, Vlaada Chvátil, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on August 30, 2021
by whovian223
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What? Two editions of this list in two weeks? Could Dave be back? I wouldn’t count on it, but this is a welcome thing to see! My editor is very happy (Editor: Yeah, so happy I could almost not speak in a monotone) It’s… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #250 – 241”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Above and Below, Abstract Games, Action Points, Arcane Wonders, Area Control, Benjamin Pope, Bryan Pope, Card Drafting, Century: Spice Road, City Building, CMON, Concordia Venus, Cthulhu Wars, David Thompson, Deckbuilders, Emerson Matsuuchi, Ethnos, Gen42 Games, Grid Movement, Hand Management, Herve Lemaitre, Hive, John Yianni, Kolossal Games, Lincoln Petersen, Lunch Time Games, Mac Gerdts, Mage Wars Arena, Onitama, Osprey Games, Paolo Mori, Petersen Games, Plan B Games, Red Raven Games, Rio Grande Games, Ryan Laukat, Sandbox games, Sandy Petersen, Set Collection Games, Shimpei Sato, Tile-Laying Games, Trevor Benjamin, Undaunted: Normandy, Wargames, Western Legends
Posted on December 6, 2018
by whovian223
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It’s December! And too many days into December for my New to Me Games post for November, so my apologies. I do have a good reason, though. The Cult of the New to Me was having a fundraiser, but unfortunately it didn’t go well.… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2018”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 13 Days, Action Selection, Andreas Steding, Archaeology - The New Expedition, Architects of the West Kingdom, Area Control, Asger Granerud, Brett Sobol, Card Games, Crosstalk, Daniel Pedersen, Deep Sea Adventure, Emerson Matsuuchi, Garphill Games, Goro Sasaki, Gugong, Ian O'Toole, Jolly Roger Games, Jun Sasaki, Lunch Time Games, Nauvoo Games, Oink Games, Phil Walker-Harding, Push Your Luck Games, Reef, Set Collection Games, Seth Van Orden, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Worker Placement Games, Zman Games
Posted on September 29, 2017
by whovian223
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Earlier today, I posted a review of Century: Spice Road, the 2017 spice-converting card game by Plan B Games. A new version of this game has just come out in the past couple of months, called Century: Golem Edition, with art by Justin Chan… Continue Reading “Century – Golem Edition (Century review appendix)”
Posted on September 29, 2017
by whovian223
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Have you ever dreamed of being a trader in the medieval world, trading one type of cube spice for another type, fulfilling contracts by turning in certain types of cubes spices? Of course you have! Who hasn’t? (Pipe down, you in the back. You… Continue Reading “Review – Century: Spice Road”
Posted on September 4, 2017
by whovian223
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August was the month of the Dragonflight convention (38th edition, see you there on the 39th maybe?) so it’s to be expected that I would get some new games in. But surprisingly, not as many as I expected. I did get a couple of… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2017”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Alea, Alexander Pfister, Andreas Pelikan, Broom Service, Card Games, Century: Spice Road, Covert, Emerson Matsuuchi, Hanamikoji, Harbour, Kane Klenko, Kosmos, Kota Nakayama, Lunch Time Games, Plan B Games, Ravensburger, Reiner Stockhausen, Renegade Games Studios, Scott Almes, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Worker Placement Games
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