Posted on December 23, 2020
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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
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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 November 12, 2020
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Welcome to this week’s edition of BGG’s Top 200 games! The series where I look at those games in the BGG rankings from #200-101, ten games at a time. Two weeks in a row? That’s gotta be a record. Things are actually looking pretty… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #140 – 131”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andreas Steding, Area Control, Bezier Games, Bill Eberle, Bill Norton, Card Games, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Cosmic Encounter, Days of Wonder, Deduction, Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Dice-rolling, Fantasy Flight Games, GMT Games, Hansa Teutonica, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Jack Kittredge, Jaipur, Jakub Łapot, Kevin Wilson, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Memoir '44, Nate French, Ora et Labora, Peter Olotka, Portal Games, Przemysław Rymer, Richard Borg, Roll and Write Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Space Cowboys, Stronghold Games, Suburbia, Ted Alspach, That's Pretty Clever, The Lord of the Rings: the Card Game, Tile-Laying Games, Uwe Rosenberg, Wargames, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on August 3, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s been almost 4 weeks since the last post in this series looking at the Top 100 Games ranked on Boardgame Geek. I was riding high, feeling all the love the series was creating and posting something almost every week day. And then I… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Play or Played – #10-1”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Alexander Pfister, Ananda Gupta, Brass: Birmingham, Campaign Games, Card-Driven Game, Cephalofair Games, Christian T. Petersen, Civilization Building, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Dane Beltrami, Deckbuilders, Economic Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Gaia Project, Gavan Brown, Gloomhaven, GMT Games, Great Western Trail, Helge Ostertag, Isaac Childress, Jacob Fryxelius, Jason Matthews, Jens Drogemuller, Martin Wallace, Matt Leacock, Matt Tolman, Pandemic: Legacy Season 1, Rob Daviau, Roxley Games, Star Wars: Rebellion, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization, Twilight Imperium : 4th Edition, Twilight Struggle, Vlaada Chvátil, Zman Games
Posted on July 6, 2020
by whovian223
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It was a month of horror in the Dude Take Your Turn household in June. Not because of anything bad, and certainly nothing virus-related. It’s just that 2 of the 4 new games played this month have to do with Ancient Evils trying destroy… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2020”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Dice-rolling, Elder Sign, Fantasy Flight Games, Jaipur, Kevin Wilson, Richard Launius, Roll and Write Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Space Cowboys, Stronghold Games, Twice as Clever, Wolfgang Warsch
Posted on July 3, 2020
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What does that cryptic headline mean? Fantasy Flight Games announced yesterday that they are going to be reissuing 2000’s classic 2-5 player cooperative game with those little fellows, The Lord of the Rings. This is a game from even before my time in gaming!… Continue Reading “Now Even New Gamers Can Be a Hobbit”
Posted on July 1, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s that time of week again. The sun’s out (kind of, though it’s supposed to rain by the time this actually posts) and we’re into Summer. Yet the temperature’s in the 60s in Vancouver and I’m really enjoying it. I don’t need it to… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? #30-21”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: A Feast for Odin, Action Selection, Agricola, Alan Stone, Andreas Seyfarth, Bag Building, Bruno Sautter, Caverna, Cooperative Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Food Chain Magnate, Jamey Stegmaier, Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga, Ludovic Roudy, Mage Knight, Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition, Morten Monrad Pedersen, Nikki Valens, Orleans, Puerto Rico, Ravensburger, Reiner Stockhausen, Serious Poulp, Splotter Spellen, Stonemaier Games, Tasty Minstrel Grames, The 7th Continent, Uwe Rosenberg, Viticulture, Vlaada Chvátil, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games, Zman Games
Posted on June 24, 2020
by whovian223
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Another week, another look at the BGG Top 100. I’m really loving the response to these posts. It really heartens me and makes me want to keep going (even though this is the first post since the last Top 100 post, which isn’t necessarily… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? #40-31”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Kwapiński, Adam Poots, Ameritrash, Awaken Realms, Blood Rage, Chris Cantrell, Civilization Building, CMON, Cole Wehrle, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Daniele Tascini, Eric Lang, Fantasy Flight Games, Friedemann Friese, Jonathan Ying, Justin Kemppainen, Kingdom Death, Kingdom Death Monster, Leder Games, Matt Leacock, Mechs vs Minions, Miniatures, Nathan Tiras, Nemesis, Pandemic Legacy: Season 2, Power Grid, Prashant Saraswat, Rick Ernst, Rio Grande Games, Riot Games, Rob Daviau, Root, Simone Luciani, Star Wars: Imperial Assault, Stone Librande, Through the Ages, Tzolkin: the Mayan Calendar, Vlaada Chvátil
Posted on June 3, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s week 4 of my weekly look at the Boardgame Geek Top 100 games to see how many I’ve played and how many I even want to play. It’s a rather blah week, for a lot of reasons, but also just because there aren’t… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 70-61”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Adam Carlson, Alexander Pfister, Area Control, Bluffing, Board & Dice, Card Drafting, Chip Theory Games, CMON, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Crokinole, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dexterity Games, Dice-rolling, Dominion, Dominion: Intrigue, Donald X. Vaccarino, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, El Grande, Eldritch Horror, Eric Lang, Fantasy Flight Games, Josh J. Carlson, Lisboa, Miniatures, Mombasa, Nikki Valens, Richard Ulrich, Rio Grande Games, Rising Sun, Rondel Games, Teotihuacan, Too Many Bones, Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition, Vital Lacerda, Wolfgang Kramer, Worker Placement Games
Posted on May 27, 2020
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It’s week 3 of our weekly look through the Boardgame Geek Top 100 to see what games I’ve played and which ones I may be interested in playing. Last week I got educated about Dominion, maybe even enough to try it again some day. What… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 80-71”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Aeon's End, Agricola, Alain Orban, Architects of the West Kingdom, Battlestar Galactica, Card Games, CodeNames, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Helmut Ohley, Hidden Traitor, Indie Boards & Cards, Kevin Riley, Leonhard Orgler, Lookout Games, Marvel Champsions: the Card Game, Party Games, Patchwork, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, Roll for the Galaxy, Russian Railroads, Sébastien Dujardin, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tile-Laying Games, Tom Lehmann, Train Games, Troyes, Uwe Rosenberg, Vlaada Chvátil, Wei-Hwa Huang, Worker Placement Games, Xavier Georges, Zman Games
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