Posted on December 10, 2025
by whovian223
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I knew that November was going to be huge for New to Me games, but I didn’t realize just how huge! Between a convention (which, surprisingly enough, I didn’t play many new to me games at until the day Abi showed up) and multiple… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, AllPlay, Area Control, Assyria 2nd Edition, Auto-battler, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card Shedding, Catch Up Games, CMYK, Courtisans, Dan Schumacher, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eerie Idol Games, Emanuele Ornella, Fromage, Garphill Games, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jamey Stegmaier, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Masato Uesugi, Mathias Wigge, Oddland, Origin Story, Pablo Clark, Pete Wissinger, Reiner Knizia, Richard Garfield, Road to Infamy Games, Roll and Move, Sanctuary, Scorpion Masqué, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stonemaier Games, Tag Team, Takashi Ishida, The Old King's Crown, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda
Posted on November 11, 2025
by whovian223
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This past weekend was the 19th annual Bottoscon convention at the Inn at the Quay in New Westminster, Canada. We’re almost at 20! The con is run by Rob Bottos, a great guy who has taken to heart what many of us Canadians have… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2025 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, AllPlay, Aporta Games, Artipia Games, Bad Company, Bottoscon, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cascadia, CMON, CMYK, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Devir, Diamonds, Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Flatout Games, Galactic Cruise, Gizmos, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jackie Fox, Kinson Key Games, Kosmos, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Oddland, Origin Story, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, Roll and Move, Schadenfreude, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Pepper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, The Gang, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 15, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s hard to believe there is only one more week (and a couple of days) to Christmas. So it really matters to me that you’ve decided to spend a little of your hard-earned time on this little old blog. Sorry the posting has been… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Playing the BGG Top 100 Games”
Posted on June 3, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s week 4 of my weekly look at the Boardgame Geek Top 100 games to see how many I’ve played and how many I even want to play. It’s a rather blah week, for a lot of reasons, but also just because there aren’t… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 70-61”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Adam Carlson, Alexander Pfister, Area Control, Bluffing, Board & Dice, Card Drafting, Chip Theory Games, CMON, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Crokinole, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dexterity Games, Dice-rolling, Dominion, Dominion: Intrigue, Donald X. Vaccarino, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, El Grande, Eldritch Horror, Eric Lang, Fantasy Flight Games, Josh J. Carlson, Lisboa, Miniatures, Mombasa, Nikki Valens, Richard Ulrich, Rio Grande Games, Rising Sun, Rondel Games, Teotihuacan, Too Many Bones, Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition, Vital Lacerda, Wolfgang Kramer, Worker Placement Games
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