Tag: Hand Management
Posted on October 30, 2026
by whovian223
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Posting this early because I know I’m not playing any new to me games today or tomorrow! Look at me, being all efficient and stuff. October looked like it would be another dry month for new to me games (and as you will find… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Can't Win, Card Games, Cassette Crush: Mixtape Masters, CMON, Cooperative Games, Elizabeth Hargrave, Engames, Garphill Games, Hand Management, Jean-Baptiste Lullien, Lunch Time Games, Multi-use cards, Nicolas Raoult, Raphaël Guiton, Rob Newton, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stonemaier Games, Taiki Shinzawa (新澤 大樹), Talon Strike Studios, Towers of Sifnos, Trick-taking games, Wingspan Pocket, Zilla Blitz, Zombicide: 2nd Edition
Posted on October 14, 2026
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We’re now on the downward slope heading to the 10,000 level of games ranked on Boardgame Geek. Yet there are still some decent ones down here! That just goes to show you that a low-ranked game does not necessarily mean it is bad. Of… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 5001 – 5100”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Alderac, AllPlay, Amigo Spiel, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, Card Games, Compass Games, Dance of Ibexes, Duel of Meloch, Enemy Action: Kharkov, Forest Shuffle - Smoky Mountains, Game Makers, GMT Games, Hand Management, I Cut You Choose, I Made You a Mixtape, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Massive Asterisk, Mixlore, Multi-use cards, Oddland, Peloponnesian War, Ramen Fury, Set Collection Games, Smash Up World Tour: International Incident, Solo Games, Stonemaier Games, Thebai, Tile-Laying Games, Variable Player Powers, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket
Posted on August 5, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re now starting to get into the 4000s in the Boardgame Geek game rankings, and while this century isn’t as bad as last week’s (though hopefully you think my post about it was A+, would highly recommend!), it is close. However, there are always… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4001-4100”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, AllPlay, Arcana Rising, Auction Games, Battle of Versailles, Bezier Games, Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig, Boardgame Hot Takes, Card Drafting, Card Games, Combat, Compass Games, Couture, Dire Wolf Digital, Game Makers, GMT Games, Grey Fox Games, Hand Management, Lightning Train, Lunch Time Games, Men of Iron: Tri-Pack, Milestones, Pegasus Spiele, Pizarro & Co, Play to Z, Rio Grande Games, Roll and Write Games, Rondel Games, Route-building, Salt & Pepper Games, Solo Games, Soothsayers, Take-That games, Wargames
Posted on June 1, 2026
by whovian223
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There were no conventions attended in May, but there was a 14-hour games marathon where a bunch of games were played. So I knew this would be a lengthy post! This month, I actually played more new to me games than I did in… Continue Reading “New to Me – May 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Amigo Spiel, Area Control, Asmodee North America, AuZtralia, Brett J Gilbert, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Circus Flohcati, Cooperative Games, Craig E. Somerton, Dice-rolling, DNUP, Drafting Games, El Grande, Farm Hand, First Giants, Florenza: the Card Game, Gang of Dice, Gémklub, Gst, Hand Management, Hans im Gluck, Hasbro, Heckmeck am Karteneck, Katharine Chapman, Kei Kajino, Limited communication games, Lookout Games, Luc Rémond, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Martin Wallace, Matthew Dunstan, Monopoly Deal - Card Game, Nusfjord, Placentia Games, Push Your Luck Games, Reiner Knizia, Richard Ulrich, Route-building, SchilMil Games, Scorpion Masqué, Semi-cooperative Games, Set Collection Games, Sky Team, Space Cowboys, Stefano Groppi, Take-That games, Trick-taking games, Uwe Rosenberg, Wolfgang Kramer, Worker Placement Games, Zoch Verlag
Posted on March 5, 2026
by whovian223
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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
by whovian223
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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, First Fish Games, 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, Town Builder: Coevorden, 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
by whovian223
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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