Posted on May 26, 2025
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Sometimes game expansions add some much-needed variety to a game that enhances it, maybe fixing something that players have found wrong or missing in the base game. Other times, an expansion adds some unnecessary junk that makes a game more complicated or less enjoyable… Continue Reading “The Eternal Artifacts – Vale of Eternity: Artifacts Review”
Posted on March 7, 2025
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(See comments below for an even better example that I should have remembered! But I haven’t played it in ages so it was completely off my radar) Welcome to another Friday Night Shots! This is almost becoming a monthly thing rather than a weekly… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Expansions to be Never Played Again”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Alderac, Bezier Games, Expansions, Mandoo Games, Space Base, Space Base: The Emergence of Shy Pluto, Space Base: The Mysteries of Terra Proxima, Suburbia, Suburbia - 5*, Vale of Eternity, Vale of Eternity - Artifacts
Posted on February 28, 2025
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February wasn’t a great month for me overall, in terms of posting (or mental health, really). But it was a great month for games! Missing the first Sunday of the month due to weather, and then only one game on Super Bowl Sunday, I… Continue Reading “February 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Ark Nova, BG Stats, Boardgame Arena, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Devir, Dice Drafting, Harmonies, Libellud, Mandoo Games, The White Castle, Tile-Laying Games, Vale of Eternity, Vale of Eternity - Artifacts
Posted on January 8, 2025
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I’ve been writing this blog for almost 8 years now, doing a monthly “new to me” post for just as long (it started in April 2017, but it was about March’s games!), and I often do “best games played” of the year if I’m… Continue Reading “Top 10 New to Me Games of 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to Me, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Alderac, Alexander Pfister, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Civolution, Contracts, Corentin Lebrat, Delicious Games, Devir, Dice Placement, Eggertspiele, Eric Hong, Faraway, Forest Shuffle, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Harmonies, Jackie Fox, Johan Benvenuto, Johannes Goupy, Josh Wood, Kosch, Let's Go to Japan, Libellud, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Pegasus Spiele, Pirates of Maracaibo, Racing Game, Ralph Bienert, Rock Hard 1977, Rondel Games, Ryan Hendrickson, Shipyard (2nd Edition), Stefan Feld, Tableau-building, Tile-Laying Games, Vale of Eternity, Vladimír Suchý, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 26, 2024
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There’s something about relatively quick card games that just grabs me. I’m not sure what it is, other than getting the chance to play a bunch of games in a game day, maybe? However, card games can become a bit rote with small variations… Continue Reading “Lifting the Vale – Vale of Eternity Review”
Posted on December 8, 2023
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It’s been a week since my last post. And wow, what a week. Ok, it wasn’t that bad, but I just needed a bit of a recharge and decided not to think too much about writing this week. More stuff coming next week, definitely.… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Drafting Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: 2-Player Games, 7 Wonders, 7 Wonders Duel, Ankama Games, Ark Nova, Artipia Games, Ascension, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Castles of Burgundy, Czech Games Edition, Drafting Games, Draftosaurus, Dune Imperium, Fields of Green, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Ravensburger, Repos Games, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization, Vale of Eternity
Posted on October 21, 2022
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September was a weird month as far as boardgaming went. Our Sundays were sparsely-attended and we ended up playing games that we were already familiar with. With one of my usual gaming co-workers away for most of the month, my other co-worker agreed to… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2022”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Alderac, Ben Eisner, Betting, Blitzkrieg!, Card Drafting, Card Games, Cédric Lefebvre, Charlie Bink, Christophe Raimbault, Colt Super Express, Dominic Crapuchettes, Gabriele Bubola, Gudetama: The Tricky Egg Card Games, John D Clair, Justin D. Jacobson, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Merchants of Dunhuang, Northstar Games, Oni Games, Paolo Mori, Programmed Movement, PSC Games, Ready Set Bet, Restoration Games, Rob Daviau, Steve Ellis, Trekking Through History, Trivia Games, Underdog Games, Unmatched: Battle of Legends Volume 1, Wits & Wagers: It's Vegas Baby
Posted on October 6, 2022
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Last weekend, for the first time in almost three years, I actually went to a game convention. COVID really did put a damper on things. SHUX is the Shut Up & Sit Down gaming convention held at the Convention Centre in my home town… Continue Reading “SHUX 2022 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Alderac, Alea, Andreas Schmidt, Ark Nova, Ben Eisner, Betting, Bezier Games, Blitzkrieg!, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Cédric Lefebvre, Christophe Raimbault, Colt Super Express, Cory Jones, Czech Games Edition, Deep Water Games, Devil Dice Games, Dominic Crapuchettes, Duel Games, Eggertspiele, Epic Spell Wars: Annihilageddon, Fantastic Factories, Finca, Gabriele Bubola, Gudetama: The Tricky Egg Card Games, John D Clair, Joseph Z Chen, Jump Drive, Justin D. Jacobson, Justin Faulkner, Kei Kajino, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Mathias Wigge, Matt Dunn, Matt Hyra, Merchants of Dunhuang, Michael Kiesling, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Northstar Games, Oink Games, Oni Games, Paolo Mori, Prodigals Club, Programmed Movement, PSC Games, Ral zur Linde, Ravensburger, Ready Set Bet, Restoration Games, Rio Grande Games, Rob Daviau, Rondel Games, SCOUT, Set Collection Games, Space Base, Stefan Feld, Steve Ellis, Tile-Laying Games, Tom Lehmann, Trekking Through History, Underdog Games, Unmatched: Battle of Legends Volume 1, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Wits & Wagers: It's Vegas Baby, Wolfgang Sentker
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