Tag: Hand Management
Posted on March 5, 2026
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Rob Bottos is a great guy. Not only is he kind and really interesting to talk to, but he also looks after his fellow gamers. He’s run the regular Bottoscon in New Westminster since 2007 (with one year’s break due to COVID) and it’s… Continue Reading “Bottoscon Winter 2026 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Area Control, Bottoscon Winter, Can't Stop, Card Games, CMYK, Combat Commander: Europe/Med Master Edition, Cooperative Games, Cover Your Kingdom, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Earth, Eldritch Horror, Expeditions, Fantasy Flight Games, Fliptoons, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Hand Management, How I Roll - Youtube, Inside Up Games, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Rio Grande Games, Roll and Move, Roll for the Galaxy, Sea Salt & Paper, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Take-That games, The Gang, Thunderworks Games, Wargames
Posted on January 2, 2025
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It’s a new year, and coming up on my 8th blog anniversary in March! One thing I forgot to mention in yesterday’s Blog in Review post was the fact that, in those 8 years (or at least since I started, which I think was… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Amigo Spiel, Area Control, Card Games, Civolution, Cooperative Games, Dance of Ibexes, Dice Placement, Hand Management, John Cooper, Kory Heath, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Michael Schacht, Patrician, Pegasus Spiele, Poker, Stefan Feld, The Gang, Wolfgang Kramer
Posted on July 24, 2024
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Reading the description of Ezra & Nehemiah when it first hit Kickstarter, I was intrigued. If you read this blog for more than just one or two posts, you know I’m a huge fan of Garphill Games and the games designed by Shem Phillips… Continue Reading “Putting Wood on the Biblical Fire”
Posted on July 2, 2024
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May was a really boring month for new to me games, so much so that I was wondering how I could correct that for June. How about seven? No, that’s no my winning lotto number, though it should be. That’s how many new games… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Andreas "Ode" Odendahl, Andrew Meyer, Bitewing Games, Card Games, Cascadero, Delicious Games, Doomlings, Doomlings LLC, Ezra & Nehemiah, Garphill Games, Hand Management, Harmonies, Johan Benvenuto, Justus Meyer, La Granja, Libellud, Lunch Time Games, Michael Keller, Reiner Knizia, Route-building, Shem Phillips, Shipyard (2nd Edition), SJ MacDonald, Spielworxx, Stronghold Games, Tile-Laying Games, Vladimír Suchý
Posted on February 4, 2024
by whovian223
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How our tastes change over time is always kind of interesting to look at. As a kid, I loved Brussels Sprouts! Now, I really really hate them. Ok, I’m kidding…nobody sane likes Brussels Sprouts. But you get my point! Things you like as a… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#20-11)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Amalfi: Renaissance, Andrew Veen, Area Majority, Card Games, Cole Wehrle, ctr, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Deep Water Games, Dice-rolling, Elizabeth Hargrave, Fantastic Factories, Fryx Games, Gale Force 9, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Kayenta Games, Lunch Time Games, Nick Little, Obsession, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Peter Lee, Rio Grande Games, Rodney Thompson, Schadenfreude, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Sydney Engelstein, Sylex, Tableau-building, Takeo Yamada, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Trick-taking games, Tyrants of the Underdark, Underwater Cities, Vladimír Suchý, Wehrlegig Games, Wingspan, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 4, 2024
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It’s a new year, but let’s take one last look at the old year before we continue on! December was not a huge month for new to me games, as I detailed earlier. But quality trumps quantity, so even though there are only three… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Bag Building, Card Games, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Garphill Games, Hand Management, Kayenta Games, Obsession, Renegade Games Studios, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tichu, Trick-taking games, Urs Hostettler
Posted on January 2, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s a brand new year! And as I mentioned yesterday, I plan to continue blogging at the pace that I kept up last year. Maybe even more, though I’m not sure if that would kill me or not. After the blog review yesterday, you… Continue Reading “December 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, Bag Building, Capstone Games, Combat Commander, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Hand Management, Kayenta Games, Obsession, OrcaCon, Renegade Games Studios, Scholars of the South Tigris, Wargames
Posted on May 9, 2023
by whovian223
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When Stronghold Games announced that one of my favourite games, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition was getting not one, but three expansions, I was pretty excited. And judging from the hits on that post I just linked, you were too! My friend who owns that… Continue Reading “Expansion Review – Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Discovery & Foundations”
Category: Board Games, ReviewTags: Action Selection, Fryx Games, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Nick Little, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Discovery, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Foundations
Posted on March 6, 2023
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February is the shortest month of the year, though it can seem quite long (or did before a stat holiday was added to it). It can seem even longer when you don’t get as many games played as usual! As I mentioned in my… Continue Reading “New to Me – February 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Adam Rehberg, Adam's Apple Games, Area Majority, Capstone Games, City Building, EmperorS4, Eros Lin, First Rat, Gabriele Ausiello, Hanamikoji: Geisha's Road, Hand Management, I Cut You Choose, Inhabit the Earth, Jerry Chiang, John Bohrer, Lunch Time Games, Pegasus Spiele, Pick Up & Deliver, Planet Unknown, Point to Point Movement, R&D Games, Racing Game, Richard Breese, Ride the Rails, Route-building, Ryan Lambert, Stocks, Tile-Laying Games, Virginio Gigli
Posted on February 4, 2023
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It’s a brand new year and hopefully it will be better than last year. Though last year wasn’t too bad, compared to the two before. It’s January (or February, but we’re talking about January) and that means a new beginning where we’re not sure… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 9 Lives, Alban Nanty, Alexander Pfister, Andrew Parks, Bites, Block Wargames, BoardgameTables.com, Brigitte Ditt, Calico, Card Drafting, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Contracts, Core Worlds, David Fooden, Deckbuilders, Eggertspiele, Flatout Games, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hand Management, Kevin Russ, Minigolf Designer, Nicolas Robert, Pearl Games, Richard Borg, Rondel Games, Stronghold Games, Taiki Shinzawa (新澤 大樹), The Bloody Inn, Thematic Games, Tile-Laying Games, Wolfgang Ditt, Yukon Salon