A Gaming Life
Posted on April 1, 2023 by whovian223
March was definitely a great month of gaming. I managed to play 21 games (32 plays) in 31 days! And 15 days worth of gaming is always good. Fifteen out of thirty-one? Woo! Many thanks to Boardgame Stats for the wonderful app that lets… Continue Reading “March 2023 Gaming”
Posted on March 15, 2023 by whovian223
It’s Wednesday and part of me is still coming down from the high of a weekend full of boardgames! For the first time since March 2019, the annual (until COVID, damn it) Terminal City Tabletop Convention was held in my hometown of Vancouver this… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2023”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Alexander Pfister, Aporta Games, Bad Company, Bingo, Bot Factory, Card Games, Christian Kang, Contracts, Czech Games Edition, Diamonds, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Eilif Svensson, Eric Mosso, Franz-Benno Delonge, Gamelyn Games, Garphill Games, João Quintela Martins, John D Clair, Kenneth Minde, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Mike Fitzgerald, Oh My Goods, Peter B. Hoffgaard, Plumpy Thimble, Renegade Games Studios, Scott Almes, Set Collection Games, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Starship Captains, Stronghold Games, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tiny Epic Galaxies, Transamerica, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Winsome Games
Posted on September 20, 2022 by whovian223
September has been a weird month. School has started again, so work has been busy. I just haven’t really felt up to writing anything, but I don’t usually let that get in the way of doing at least this post. However, things have just… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2022”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Area Majority, Auction Games, Blue Orange Games, BoardgameTables.com, Carnegie, Chris Handy, City-Building Games, Dandelions, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Economic Games, Engine-building, Flashpoint South China Sea, Gavin Birnbaum, Ginkgopolis, GMT Games, Harold Buchanan, Las Vegas Royale, Long Shot: The Dice Game, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Matthew Dunstan, MOB: Big Apple, NEOM, Next Station: London, Paul Sottosanti, Pearl Games, Perplext, QE, Quined Games, Ravensburger, Rüdiger Dorn, Roll and Write Games, Stefan Feld, Steve Finn, Takashi Sakaue, TGG Games, The Castles of Tuscany, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Xavier Georges
Posted on December 3, 2021 by whovian223
Welcome to November’s “New to Me” post! You may notice something odd about November. No, it’s not that I had way too much Thanksgiving turkey (THANKSGIVING’S IN OCTOBER, YOU NON-CANADIANS!). It’s that three of the seven entries on this list are from Alderac Entertainment… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2021”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Auction Games, Avalon Hill, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Dice Drafting, Erik Andersson Sundén, Grand Austria Hotel, Henry Stern, Jump Drive, Kosmos, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Molly Johnson, Push Your Luck Games, Rio Grande Games, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich, Simone Luciani, TEN, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, The Op, Thomas Sing, Tom Lehmann, Trick-taking games, Variable Player Powers, Vegas Showdown, Virginio Gigli, Whirling Witchcraft, Wizards of the Coast
Posted on March 19, 2021 by whovian223
I such a timely guy, aren’t I? The first post in this series came out what seems like months ago (it was over a month ago, on February 15). What’s taken so long for the second post? Would you believe I fell asleep? All… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #290-281”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alderac, Altiplano, Andrew Wolf, Area Control, Auction Games, Bag Building, Barenpark, Bill Eberle, Card Games, Deckbuilders, Die Macher, Dmitry Knorre, Dominic Crapuchettes, Dune, Evolution: Climate, Forrest-Pruzan Creative, Gale Force 9, Hand Management, Hans im Gluck, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, Jack Kittredge, Julian Courtland-Smith, Kami Mandell, Karl-Heinz Schmiel, Lookout Games, Love Letter, Lunch Time Games, Michal Oracz, Neuroshima Hex 3.0, North Star Games, Notre Dame, Peter Olotka, Phil Walker-Harding, Portal Games, Push Your Luck Games, Ravensburger, Reiner Stockhausen, Renegade Games Studios, Seiji Kanai, Sergey Machin, Stefan Feld, Stronghold Games, Survive: Escape from Atlantis, The Op, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on November 12, 2020 by whovian223
Welcome to this week’s edition of BGG’s Top 200 games! The series where I look at those games in the BGG rankings from #200-101, ten games at a time. Two weeks in a row? That’s gotta be a record. Things are actually looking pretty… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #140 – 131”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andreas Steding, Area Control, Bezier Games, Bill Eberle, Bill Norton, Card Games, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Cosmic Encounter, Days of Wonder, Deduction, Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Dice-rolling, Fantasy Flight Games, GMT Games, Hansa Teutonica, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Jack Kittredge, Jaipur, Jakub Łapot, Kevin Wilson, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Memoir '44, Nate French, Ora et Labora, Peter Olotka, Portal Games, Przemysław Rymer, Richard Borg, Roll and Write Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Space Cowboys, Stronghold Games, Suburbia, Ted Alspach, That's Pretty Clever, The Lord of the Rings: the Card Game, Tile-Laying Games, Uwe Rosenberg, Wargames, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on September 2, 2020 by whovian223
When I began this series about the Boardgame Geek rankings and talking about the games in them, I didn’t think it would be this difficult. The Top 100 was pretty static. So when I spent the first part of the week putting all of… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #190-181”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1830: Railways & Robber Barons, 18XX, Abstract Games, Alexander Pfister, Andreas Pelikan, Andrew Veen, Area Control, Cambridge Game Factory, Card Drafting, Card Games, Carl Chudyk, Cartographers: a Roll Player Tale, Cédrick Chaboussit, Darwin Kastle, Deckbuilders, Economic Games, Ed Carter, Francis Tresham, Friedemann Friese, Gale Force 9, Gamewright Games, Glory to Rome, Hand Management, Hero Realms, HUCH Games, Isle of Skye, Jordy Adan, Kris Burm, Lewis & Clark: the Expedition, Line-Drawing Games, Lookout Games, Ludonaute, Peter Lee, Phil Walker-Harding, Power Grid Deluxe, Racing Game, Ravensburger, Reiner Knizia, Rio Grande Games, Robert Dougherty, Rodney Thompson, Sushi Go Party, The Quest for El Dorado, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tyrants of the Underdark, YINSH
Posted on May 27, 2020 by whovian223
It’s week 3 of our weekly look through the Boardgame Geek Top 100 to see what games I’ve played and which ones I may be interested in playing. Last week I got educated about Dominion, maybe even enough to try it again some day. What… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 80-71”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Aeon's End, Agricola, Alain Orban, Architects of the West Kingdom, Battlestar Galactica, Card Games, CodeNames, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Helmut Ohley, Hidden Traitor, Indie Boards & Cards, Kevin Riley, Leonhard Orgler, Lookout Games, Marvel Champsions: the Card Game, Party Games, Patchwork, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, Roll for the Galaxy, Russian Railroads, Sébastien Dujardin, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tile-Laying Games, Tom Lehmann, Train Games, Troyes, Uwe Rosenberg, Vlaada Chvátil, Wei-Hwa Huang, Worker Placement Games, Xavier Georges, Zman Games
Posted on May 14, 2020 by whovian223
It’s no secret that I’ve been in a bit of blog doldrums over the last couple of weeks. The social isolation and not playing many games (none until last weekend, actually) except the apps that I do asynchronously, plus getting really busy at work… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 100-91”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Adam Sadler, Alchemists, App-related, Bernd Brunnhofer, Champions of Midgard, Clank in Space, Clank in Space: Apocalypse, Clank in Space: Cyber Station 11, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Cranio Creations, Crossroads, Czech Games Edition, Daniel Clark, Dead of Winter, Deckbuilders, Descent: Journeys into the Dark (2nd Edition), Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dungeon Crawl, Fantasy Flight Games, Flaminia Brasini, Forbidden Stars, Grand Austria Hotel, Grey Fox Games, Hisashi Hayashi, Isaac Vega, James Kniffen, Jonathan Gilmour, Kevin Wilson, Lookout Games, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Matúš Kotry, Ole Steiness, One vs Many, Paul Dennen, Plaid Hat Games, Renegade Games Studios, Samuel Bailey, Simone Luciani, Stone Age, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Virginio Gigli, Worker Placement Games, Yokohama, Zman Games
Posted on June 29, 2018 by whovian223
June was a slow month for new games, which I know is seriously disappointing to my fellow cult members. Hey, we all have slow months! Besides, I was busy setting up the Cult of the New to Me fundraiser so wasn’t able to find… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2018”
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