Tag: Garphill Games
Posted on July 1, 2026
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Happy Canada Day! June was a weird month for gaming. It had a full convention, a 3-day weekend of wonderful gaming with friends as well new acquintances. However, that convention was full of long plays so the number of games played wasn’t as high… Continue Reading “June 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Card Games, CMYK, Days of Wonder, Dice-rolling, Gamelyn Games, Garphill Games, Heat: Pedal to the Metal, Loosey Goosey Games, Lunch Time Games, Mindclash Games, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Scholars of the South Tigris, Surfosaurus Max, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tiny Epic Galaxies, Trickerion, Worker Placement Games
Posted on June 17, 2026
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It’s June, so it must be time for the 2nd annual Bottoscon Spring convention! Bottoscon is a convention created and run by (though the running of it is helped by numerous other people as well) Rob Bottos, a great guy who looks out for… Continue Reading “Bottoscon Spring 2026 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Bag Building, Bingo, Bottoscon Spring, Card Games, Card Playing, CMYK, Combat Commander: Europe/Med Master Edition, Cover Your A$$ets, Dice Placement, Ecos: First Continent, Empire Builder: Europe, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Long Shot: The Dice Game, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, Mayfair Games, Mindclash Games, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Pandasaurus Games, Perplext, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Route-building, Scholars of the South Tigris, Sea Salt & Paper, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Tribes of the Wind, Trickerion, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on May 5, 2026
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This post took me a lot less time than last month’s did. That’s because there were no conventions in April! Instead of 10+ new to me games, there are only four in this month’s post, but they are all pretty good! The Cult of… Continue Reading “New to Me – April 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, AllPlay, Anna Wermlund, Auction Games, Cooperative Games, Deckbuilders, Eternal Decks, Frostbite Games, Garphill Games, Helge Meissner, Kjetil Svendsen, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lunch Time Games, Money!, Recall, Reiner Knizia, Secret Societies, Set Collection Games, SJ MacDonald, Tableau-building, Tricktakers Games
Posted on April 20, 2026
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(Edit 6/2/26: The Kickstarter is now live!) A short news post tonight since I’m lame and couldn’t get a regular post done for today. One of the (presumed, though it hasn’t been confirmed) fallouts from all this nasty Trump tariff stuff is the fact… Continue Reading “Garphill Games Announces South Tigris Reprint Kickstarter Coming Soon”
Posted on February 23, 2026
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We’re into a new millennium! Not year-wise, of course. We are sadly still in 2026. But in looking at the Boardgame Geek game rankings, we are now over 2000. Some might say we’re getting into the dregs, where I haven’t played, or even thought… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2001 Through 2100”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 3 Chapters, Amigo Spiel, Bezier Games, Card Drafting, Cooperative Games, Deinko Games, Druid City Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Holland '44, I Split You Choose, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, Mr. President, New York Slice, Patchistory, Real-Time Games, Resource Management, Set Collection Games, Solo Games, Sorcerer City, Tableau-building, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on February 4, 2026
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Now we’ve gone and done it. We’ve now reached the Top 10 games of all time, played by me at least. It’s been an incredible 5 weeks (ok, 6, but last week’s Friday post was important) of new games, oldies dropping in the rankings,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#10-1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Ark Nova, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Chad Jensen, Christian Leonard, Civolution, Combat Commander: Europe, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice Drafting, Dice Placement, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Jason Matthews, Lisboa, Lookout Games, Mathias Wigge, Pegasus Spiele, Prodigals Club, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Stefan Feld, Tableau-building, Virginio Gigli, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Vital Lacerda, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 19, 2026
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Last week, I mentioned that we were starting to get into the dregs of the Boardgame Geek Top 2000 games. This week, that is just reinforced! Though there is enough decent (ok, maybe “interesting” is the better word) stuff to talk about that it… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1801 Through 1900”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Alderac, Alley Cat Games, Avalon Hill, Bitewing Games, Burgle Bros 2, Burning Banners, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Cascadero, Chocolate Factory, CMYK, Compass Games, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Dale of Merchants Collection, Deckbuilders, Factory Fun, Fowers Games, Fruit Fight, Garphill Games, Hidden Roles, Kolossal Games, Kremlin, Le Havre: Inland Port, Lucky Loop, Lunch Time Games, No Mercy, Omen: A Reign of War, Push Your Luck Games, Reiner Knizia, Ride the Rails, Shipwrights of the North Sea - Redux, Snowdale Design, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Valley of the Kings: Afterlife, Wargames, Z-Man Games
Posted on January 16, 2026
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It’s another week and another entry in the Top 50 Games Played of All Time (the 2026 edition!) Of course, this is “games played,” not “games” because at only 587, my number of games played doesn’t even scratch the surface of what’s out there,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#30-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Andrew Veen, Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, Architects of the West Kingdom, Area Control, Brad Johnson, Card Games, Cranio Creations, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Delicious Games, Devir, Dice Drafting, Earth, Eilif Svensson, Flaminia Brasini, Gale Force 9, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Helge Meissner, Inside Up Games, Isra C, Kayenta Games, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Lunch Time Games, Maxime Tardif, Obsession, Peter Lee, Revive, Rodney Thompson, Schadenfreude, Shei S, Shem Phillips, Shipyard (2nd Edition), Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Studio Turbine, Tableau-building, The White Castle, Time of Crisis, Trick-taking games, Tyrants of the Underdark, Virginio Gigli, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Wray Ferrell
Posted on January 7, 2026
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Another break in the weekly schedule, but that’s because of New Years, a new month, some end of the year stuff, and all of that. I hope your new 2026 year has been treating you well so far! We’re back with another century of… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1601 Through 1700”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Alderac, Area Control, Asymmetric Games, Auction Games, Avalon Hill, Board & Dice, Capstone Games, Card Games, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Eerie Idol Games, EmperorS4, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Granna Games, Inventors of the South Tigris, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Merchant of Venus, Nagaraja, NEOM, Pick Up & Deliver, Sanctuary, Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game - Clone Wars Edition, Tableau-building, Terracotta Army, The Old King's Crown, Tile-Laying Games, Titan, Trains: Rising Sun, Villages of Valeria, Walking in Burano, Warsaw: City of Ruins
Posted on January 3, 2026
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Two years goes by so fast. Hell, even a month goes by so fast, as I remember looking forward to all of the holiday fun and time off in December, and now it’s January and where did the time go? However, it has been… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#50-41)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Arcs, Card Games, Cole Wehrle, Contracts, Daily Magic Games, Daniel Bullock, David Gordon, Deep Water Games, Dice Placement, Drafting Games, Elizabeth Hargrave, Fantastic Factories, Finspan, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Guild Academies of Valeria, In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943-44, Inventors of the South Tigris, Jo Kelly, Joe Schmidt, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Michael O'Connell, Molly House, PubMeeple, Roll and Move, Root, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stan Kordonskiy, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Trick-taking games, Wehrlegig Games, Wingspan