Posted on September 27, 2021
by whovian223
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Can it really be? Yes, this is the last post in the BGG Top 300 series, first begun back in February. It’s been a long, hard year with COVID being alternately defeated and then making a rebound and forcing people to still try and… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #210-201”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, 2-Player Games, Auction Games, Bora Bora, Card-Driven Game, Cédrick Chaboussit, Christian Leonard, Czech Games Edition, Darwin Kastle, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Dungeon Petz, Economic Games, EmperorS4, Fantasy Flight Games, Friedemann Friese, GMT Games, Hanamikoji, Hero Realms, Imperial, Jason Matthews, Kota Nakayama, Lewis & Clark: the Expedition, Libellud, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, Mac Gerdts, Power Grid Deluxe, Ravensburger, Régis Bonnessée, Reiner Knizia, Rio Grande Games, Robert Dougherty, Samurai, Seasons, Stefan Feld, Tile-Laying Games, Vlaada Chvátil, Wise Wizard Games
Posted on September 22, 2021
by whovian223
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We’re heading into the home stretch with our look at the Top 300 games on Boardgame Geek. I may even finish before October! Wouldn’t that be a hoot? I’ve actually really enjoyed doing this list, even as I stated last week that it just… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #220-211”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Kwapiński, Age of Empires III: Discovery, Alderac, Area Control, Area Movement, Auction Games, Awaken Realms, Blue Orange Games, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Civilization Building, CMON, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Dixit: Odyssey, Fantasy Flight Games, Frank Brooks, Fury of Dracula, Glenn Drover, Hand Management, Hidden Movement, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Imperial Settlers, Jean-Louis Roubira, John D Clair, Kevin Wilson, Kingdomino, Libellud, Lords of Hellas, Lunch Time Games, Modern Art, Portal Games, Pulsar 2849, Reiner Knizia, Space Alert, Space Base, Stephen Hand, Tile-Laying Games, Tropical Games, Vlaada Chvátil, Vladimír Suchý
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 September 6, 2021
by whovian223
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Three weeks. Yes, that’s three weeks. Three weeks in a row where I’ve done an entry for the Top 300 games on BGG! Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? I know, right? I don’t believe it either! Anyway, this is the… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #240 – 231”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Points, Antiquity, Area Control, BattleLore 2nd Edition, Burgle Bros, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Contracts, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Dominion: 2nd Edition, Donald X. Vaccarino, Fantasy Flight Games, Fowers Games, Grid Movement, Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage, Imperial 2030, Jamey Stegmaier, Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga, Luke Laurie, Mac Gerdts, Marc Neidlinger, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Mark Simonitch, Minion Games, Orange Nebula, Point to Point Movement, Richard Borg, Rio Grande Games, Robert A Kouba, Rondel Games, Simone Luciani, Splotter Spellen, Stonemaier Games, Tapestry, The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, Tile-Laying Games, Tim Fowers, Tom Jolly, Valley Games, Vindication, Wargames, Z-Man Games
Posted on June 14, 2021
by whovian223
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I know it’s been a while (my last post was May 28), but here were finally are with another entry in the COVID-long series of posts about games on Boardgame Geek and whether or not I’ve played them. Thankfully, it looks like the main… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #270-261”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Points, Andreas Schmidt, Area Movement, Bag Building, Christian Marcussen, Corey Konieczka, Dice-rolling, Don Eskridge, Eggertspiele, Fantasy Flight Games, Gabriele Mari, Gamelyn Games, Gianluca Santopietro, Glass Road, Heaven & Ale, Indie Boards & Cards, Kasper Aagaard, KLASK, Letters From Whitechapel, Lunch Time Games, Merchants & Marauders, Michael Kiesling, Mikkel Bertelsen, Northstar Games, Pick Up & Deliver, Rondel Games, Scott Almes, Social Deduction Games, Star Wars: Outer Rim, The Resistance, The Taverns of Tiefenthal, Tikal, Tile-Laying Games, Tiny Epic Galaxies, Tony Fanchi, Uwe Rosenberg, Wolfgang Kramer, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on April 22, 2021
by whovian223
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Wow, it’s been over a month since the last edition of the Top 300 boardgames on Boardgame Geek. I think that’s a bad sign. Is it a bad sign? Is it because of the funk I’ve been in over the last month or so?… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #280 – 271”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Abstract Games, Acquire, Agricola: All Creatures Big & Small, Alderac, Antoine Bauza, Avalon Hill, Bruno Cathala, Bruno Faidutti, Christian T. Petersen, Cooperative Games, Cryptid, David Thompson, Deduction, Dixit, Economic Games, Ed Beach, Fantasy Flight Games, Ghost Stories, GMT Games, Hal Duncan, Here I Stand, James Kniffen, Jean-Louis Roubira, Libellud, Lunch Time Games, Matagot, Miniatures, Mission: Red Planet - 2nd Edition, Osprey Games, Repos Games, Ruth Veevers, Sid Sackson, Star Wars: Armada, Takenoko, Tile-Laying Games, Trevor Benjamin, Uwe Rosenberg, War Chest, Wargames, Z-Man Games
Posted on January 6, 2021
by whovian223
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After months of waiting (I hope you weren’t holding your breath), we have reached the end of the line (for the second time). Yes, we are at the end of the Top 200 BGG games, and it’s been an interesting ride. I’ve really discovered… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #110-101”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Sadler, Alchemists, Area Control, Area Movement, Awaken Realms, Barrage, Bernd Brunnhofer, Card Drafting, Christian Martinez, Clank in Space, Corey Konieczka, Cranio Creations, Czech Games Edition, Daniel Clark, Deckbuilders, Decrypto, Deduction, Descent: Journeys into the Dark (2nd Edition), Dire Wolf Digital, Dungeon Crawl, Fantasy Flight Games, Forbidden Stars, Inis, James Kniffen, Jason Little, Kevin Wilson, Krzysztof Piskorski, Marcin Świerkot, Matagot, Matúš Kotry, Miniatures, Party Games, Paul Dennen, Portal Games, Renegade Games Studios, Resource Management, Samuel Bailey, Simone Luciani, Star Wars: X-Wing, Stone Age, Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon, Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance, Tommaso Battista, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on January 1, 2021
by whovian223
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Welcome to 2021! 2020 was a very hard year, not just as a boardgamer but as a person in general. The arrival of COVID-19 and extreme measures taken to counteract it have really taken a toll on me and Dude Take Your Turn in… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2020”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: CascadeCon, COVID-19, Dice Tower, Dice Tower West, Elder Sign, Eric Summerer, Fantasy Flight Games, Kiki Aimerito, MonsterCouch, OrcaCon, Roll Player, Shards of Infinity, Stephen Buonocore, Stoneblade, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars: Big Box, Thunderworks Games, Wingspan
Posted on December 29, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s the end of December and 2020 has been a really cruel and wicked year. However, one benefit of all of this is that I’ve played a lot more games with my wife than I had in the past. She graciously volunteered to play… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2020”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Card Drafting, Dice-rolling, Elder Sign, Elder Sign: Unseen Forces, Fantasy Flight Games, Frédéric Guérard, It's A Wonderful World, Keith Matejka, Kevin Wilson, Lucky Duck Games, Richard Launius, Roll Player, Roll Player: Fiends & Familiars, Thunderworks Games, Variable Player Powers
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
