Tag: Garphill Games
Posted on September 14, 2026
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Double post day today, but I didn’t remember that the Garphill Games announcement Youtube was going live today. There was some really exciting news in this one, especially the new East Empire game! There are some other announcements, like a couple of card games,… Continue Reading “Garphill Games News – New East Empire Game! And Paladins Stuff”
Posted on September 11, 2026
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Last week, I talked about people intentionally breaking a game by doing something that doesn’t change the game state. In the post, I referenced everybody in a game of Terraforming Mars just passing as their first action, which doesn’t do anything to make the… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – The Art of the Pass”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Alderac, Concordia, Cranio Creations, Czech Games Edition, Devir, Fryx Games, Garphill Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Into the Machine, Inventors of the South Tigris, Lookout Games, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Rio Grande Games, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Tapestry, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: the Dice Game, The White Castle, Wayfarers of the South Tigris
Posted on September 1, 2026
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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 August 24, 2026
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Era of Experts is the expansion for the really long and intricate, but still quite good Inventors of the South Tigris game from Garphill Games. It has taken a while to actually get enough plays of this expansion in order to do a review.… Continue Reading “Is Expertise Overrated? – Era of Experts Review (Inventors of the South Tigris Expansion)”
Posted on August 19, 2026
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The last century of the BGG Top Games list was actually not too bad. Lots of nostalgic wargames for me, plus having played a few of the really cool games on the list. Still, the number of games played wasn’t the largest. Will this… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4201 – 4300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 11 Nimmt!, Amigo Spiel, Area Majority, Auction Games, Bitewing Games, Card Games, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, DOG, Drafting Games, EGO, Garphill Games, GMT Games, I Napoleon, Legendary: Big Trouble in Little China, Lunch Time Games, Minerva, Multi-Man Publishing, Pandasaurus Games, Push Your Luck Games, Schmidt Spiele, Shifting Sands, Shipwrights of the North Sea, Siege of Valeria, Smash Up: That 70s Expansion, Solo Games, Team Games, Tower Defense, Upper Deck, Wargames, Welcome to Centerville
Posted on August 1, 2026
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July is always going to be a bit of a slower month for gaming, mainly because I’m on vacation for a large portion of it. That means no lunchtime games! Though I was able to get a bunch of Final Girl plays in, which… Continue Reading “July 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Area Control, BG Stats, Card Games, Devir, Dice Drafting, El Grande, Final Girl, Garphill Games, Hans im Gluck, Inventors of the South Tigris, Lookout Games, Multi-use cards, Oh My Goods, Salt & Pepper Games, Solo Games, The White Castle, The White Castle - Matcha, Van Ryder Games, Witchcraft!
Posted on July 31, 2026
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I know I’ve talked about expansions before on Friday Night Shots (both ones you won’t play again and whether or not you even like them to begin with), but a recent post on Boardgame Geek prompted another thought that I wanted to explore. Somebody… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Expansions Revisited”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night Shots, OpinionTags: 7 Wonders, 7 Wonders: Cities, 7 Wonders: Leaders, AJ Porfirio, Arkham Horror: the Card Game, Board & Dice, Combat Commander, Combat Commander: Battle Pack #1: Paratroopers, Czech Games Edition, Expansions, Fantasy Flight Games, Final Girl, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Grand Austria Hotel - Let's Waltz, Last Will, Lookout Games, Prodigals Club, Repos Games, SETI: Space Agencies, Solo Games, Teotihuacan: Expansion Period, Van Ryder Games, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Gates of Gold, Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Keeper of Keys
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