Posted on November 26, 2025
by whovian223
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Last week’s post talking about some of the games just outside of the Top 1000 on Boardgame Geek seemed to be a big hit. Maybe not in terms of visitors to this site, but with friends of mine, sparking some discussion. In the hopes… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1101 Through 1200 – Thoughts”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1104, A Study in Emerald, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Area Majority, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Cat Lady, Cooperative Games, Ecos: First Continent, Engine-building, Explorers of the North Sea, Flatout Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Greater Than Games, Here I Stand, Linko!, Lunch Time Games, Majesty for the Realm, Point City, Racing Game, Resist!, Salt & Pepper Games, Science Fiction Double Feature, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition, Set Collection Games, Solo Games, Thunder Alley, Tile-Laying Games, Treefrog Games, Virgin Queen, Worlds Fair 1893, Z-Man Games
Posted on March 8, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s another Friday and welcome to the bar! Funny how nobody else seems to be in here, but it is raining out there pretty good. Always happy to have just my friends in the bar with me, hanging out on a Friday night. Who… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Friendship Killing Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Agricola, Ardwulf, Bitewing Games, Cephalofair Games, Diplomacy, Garphill Games, Gloomhaven, GMT Games, Here I Stand, Indie Boards & Cards, Renegade Games Studios, Scholars of the South Tigris, The Resistance, Zoo Vadis
Posted on November 14, 2023
by whovian223
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This post has been a long time coming, mainly due to exhaustion on my part. A four-day con is a long con, especially when you are playing a lot of longer games. All of that would be fine, except then I started work on… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Ark Nova, Bottoscon, Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, Codenames: Deep Undercover, Dominant Species, Flash Point, Hellapagos, Here I Stand, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Merchant of Venus, Saboteur: the Dark Cave, Starship Captains, TEN, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: the Dice Game
Posted on October 27, 2023
by whovian223
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Welcome back to another Friday! The year is moving on, week by week, but I’m happy to have you spend at least a bit of your Friday night with me (or, more likely, your Saturday morning, but beggars can’t be choosers!). Belly up to… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Mechanic Surprises”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Bohnanza, Card Games, Cole Wehrle, Cosmic Encounter, Geoff Engelstein, Here I Stand, Mark Herman, Negotiation Games, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Reiner Knizia, Uwe Rosenberg, Versailles 1919, Zoo Vadis
Posted on July 1, 2023
by whovian223
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(This was supposed to go out last night, but instead it’s going out tonight. Pretend it’s still Friday, ok?) It’s another Friday, and it’s vacation time! Yes, I am off of work for an entire month, not returning until July 31. But since it… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Game Length”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Alderac, Almoravid, Amigo Spiel, Architects of the West Kingdom, Bottoscon, Combat Commander, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Here I Stand, Lunch Time Games, No Thanks, Players' Aid, Space Base, Twilight Imperium : 4th Edition, Wargames
Posted on June 2, 2023
by whovian223
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Welcome back! I hope that you had a good week. Belly up to the bar and let me get you a drink. Whatever you like. Let me turn the music down so we can chat a bit. Ok, perhaps I shouldn’t say a “bad”… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Stuck in the Middle of a Bad Game”
Posted on April 22, 2021
by whovian223
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Wow, it’s been over a month since the last edition of the Top 300 boardgames on Boardgame Geek. I think that’s a bad sign. Is it a bad sign? Is it because of the funk I’ve been in over the last month or so?… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #280 – 271”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Abstract Games, Acquire, Agricola: All Creatures Big & Small, Alderac, Antoine Bauza, Avalon Hill, Bruno Cathala, Bruno Faidutti, Christian T. Petersen, Cooperative Games, Cryptid, David Thompson, Deduction, Dixit, Economic Games, Ed Beach, Fantasy Flight Games, Ghost Stories, GMT Games, Hal Duncan, Here I Stand, James Kniffen, Jean-Louis Roubira, Libellud, Lunch Time Games, Matagot, Miniatures, Mission: Red Planet - 2nd Edition, Osprey Games, Repos Games, Ruth Veevers, Sid Sackson, Star Wars: Armada, Takenoko, Tile-Laying Games, Trevor Benjamin, Uwe Rosenberg, War Chest, Wargames, Z-Man Games
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