Posted on September 7, 2026
by whovian223
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There’s something to be said for a game where you’re not chasing the usual points to win the game. Where you’re just doing something and hoping you’ll win the game. Of course, a good game won’t have you hoping. It will instead let you… Continue Reading “Racing Robots – Into the Machine Review”
Posted on September 1, 2026
by whovian223
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August was a booming month for gaming, despite there not being any conventions or anything. Well, maybe not “booming,” but certainly better than last month! Lunch time games at work certainly helped matters, plus there were a few Sundays where multiple games got played.… Continue Reading “August 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: 7 Wonders Duel, Area Control, Auction Games, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Combat Commander, Dice-rolling, Engine-building, Final Girl, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Hobby Japan, Inventors of the South Tigris, Inventors of the South Tigris - Era of Experts, Lunch Time Games, Renegade Games Studios, Rumble Nation, Tile-Laying Games, Up or Down, Van Ryder Games, Vegas Showdown
Posted on November 26, 2025
by whovian223
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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: 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 February 11, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s been a long journey getting to this top 10. Not so much in weeks, as these posts have appeared for 5 weeks just like the previous Top 25 did (or they should have, but I’d forgotten that I took a much too long… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#10 – 1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, Action Selection, Ark Nova, Brad Johnson, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Christian Leonard, Clank in Space, Combat Commander: Europe, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice Placement, Dire Wolf Digital, Earth, Engine-building, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Inside Up Games, Jason Matthews, Mathias Wigge, Maxime Tardif, Paul Dennen, Prodigals Club, Renegade Games Studios, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tableau-building, Time of Crisis, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Wray Ferrell
Posted on January 14, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s only been two years, but it’s that time again! The 2022 edition of my “Top Games Played of All Time” was predicated on my having played just over 400 games. As of the end of 2023, I had played 534 games in total.… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#50-41)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Abstract Games, Action Selection, Alderac, Andreas Schmidt, Blood Bowl Team Manager, Board & Dice, Cape May, Chad Jensen, Charlie Bink, Cranio Creations, Daniele Tascini, David Thompson, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dominant Species, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, Engine-building, Fantasy Flight Games, Flaminia Brasini, GMT Games, Heaven & Ale, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Lunch Time Games, Michael Kiesling, On Mars, Paul Dennen, Set Collection Games, Simone Luciani, Teotihuacan, Thunderworks Games, Trekking Through History, Trevor Benjamin, Underdog Games, Virginio Gigli, Vital Lacerda, War Chest, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 11, 2024
by whovian223
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One of my favourite games out there is Ark Nova. For some reason it just scratches a whole bunch of itches (ok, maybe that came out wrong) and I really enjoy playing it. I’m in 2-3 games of it on Boardgame Arena and I’ll… Continue Reading “Expansion Review – Ark Nova: Marine Worlds”
Posted on January 9, 2024
by whovian223
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Another year, another OrcaCon has passed. I first went to OrcaCon in 2020, but then some world-wide event that I can’t seem to remember stopped me from going again until last year. I wish it would come to me. Anyway, this last weekend was… Continue Reading “OrcaCon 2024 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, BLAM Games, Card Games, Claim, CMON, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Dice of Crowns, Dice-rolling, Engine-building, Far Off Games, Fire in the Library, Funforge Games, Gizmos, Guild Academies of Valeria, Helvetiq Games, Hit Me!, I Found Bigfoot, Kompromat, Matches, OrcaCon, Our Family Plays Games, Pegasus Spiele, Port Royal, Puppy Pile, Push Your Luck Games, Quantum, Quined Games, Schadenfreude, Set Collection Games, Splito, Studio Turbine, Thing 12 Games, Trick-taking games, Tricky Dicks, Vanuatu, Weird Giraffe Games, White Goblin Games, Wryknot Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System
Posted on November 16, 2023
by whovian223
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One game mechanism I really like is dice rolling and engine building (ok, that’s two mechanisms). Who doesn’t like chucking a bunch of dice? Ok, Len in the back, maybe. But otherwise, who doesn’t? Fantastic Factories doesn’t let you chuck a ton of dice,… Continue Reading “Review – Fantastic Factories”
Posted on May 5, 2023
by whovian223
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As mentioned in my April Gaming post, April was not a banner month for games. Too much time off and missing a regular game day really sank that. It also affected my “new to me” games because I only got two of them played!… Continue Reading “New to Me – April 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alexander Pfister, Andreas Pelikan, Capstone Games, Corrosion, Engine-building, Isle of Skye, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Stefan Bauer, Tile-Laying 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