Posted on September 26, 2026
by whovian223
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I was going to leave my Friday post to be the Tag Team review that posted yesterday. Then I was reading something tonight while eating dinner (I can’t even remember what prompted it, so it must have been stewing a bit in my subconscious)… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots (Saturday Edition) – Games That Intimidate You”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Artipia Games, Bezier Games, Castles of Mad King Ludwig Collector's Edition, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Fantasy Flight Games, GMT Games, Here I Stand, Negotiation Games, Speakeasy, Suburbia - Collector's Edition, The Pursuit of Happiness: Big Box, Tile-Laying Games, Twilight Imperium : 4th Edition, Vital Lacerda, Wargames
Posted on September 9, 2026
by whovian223
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We have reached the midway point of the 4000s in the Boardgame Geek game rankings, and we have also hit another milestone. I have not played or do not own any of the games in this century. I know I said originally that I… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4501 – 4600”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1 vs Many games, Alderac, Avalon Hill, Capstone Games, Card Games, Cascadia: Alpine Lakes, Catherine: The Cities of the Tsarina, Cooperative Games, Cosmic Encounter, D-Day at Peleliu, Decision Games, Drafting Games, DVG Games, Flatout Games, Fliptoons Season 2, Hidden Movement, KuZOOkA, Last Friday, Lunch Time Games, Negotiation Games, Pegasus Spiele, Pendragon Game Studio, Phantom Leader, Rondel Games, Scorpius Freighter, Set Collection Games, Solo Games, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on April 13, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s time for another century of Boardgame Geek rated games, getting down into the second half of the 2000s and seeing what’s there. This one isn’t quite going to be the bonanza that last time’s was, but there are definitely some good games in… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2501 – 2600”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 999 Games, Archeos Society, Avalon Hill, Capstone Games, Cooperative Games, Corrosion, Covert, Daily Magic Games, Fireside Games, Flow of History, GMT Games, Guilds of London, Hellapagos, Lunch Time Games, Negotiation Games, Quests of Valeria, Renegade Games Studios, Rise & Decline of the Third Reich, Semi-cooperative Games, Set Collection Games, Space Cowboys, Star Trek Panic, Tableau-building, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Twilight Struggle: South Asian Monsoon, Valletta, Versailles 1919, Wargames, Z-Man Games
Posted on October 31, 2023
by whovian223
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October was a great month for new to me games! That’s been a bit unusual lately, so I’m glad that this is back on the upswing. Of course, with every improvement there comes a downside. I played 5 new to me games in October,… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Amalfi: Renaissance, Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, Barcelona, Bitewing Games, Board & Dice, Dani Garcia, GMT Games, Jason Matthews, Lunch Time Games, Negotiation Games, Phil Walker-Harding, Reiner Knizia, Resource Management, Space Cowboys, Spellbook, Sylex, Takeo Yamada, Tile-Laying Games, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Wargames, Zoo Vadis
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 December 9, 2020
by whovian223
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After three weeks or so, it’s time for another entry in the BGG Top 200! We’re almost done, which you would think would mean that I could actually get these done in a timely manner. But, you know, COVID and everything. Yeah, I do… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #130-121”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, A Game of Thrones: the Board Game (2nd Edition), Action Selection, Andreas Steiger, Area Movement, Auction Games, Benoit Turpin, Bezier Games, Brian Lewis, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Christian T. Petersen, Chronicles of Crime, Cooperative Games, David Cicurel, Deduction, Deep Water Games, Dinosaur Island, Don Eskridge, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Glenn Drover, GMT Games, Indie Boards & Cards, Jonathan Gilmour, Kosmos, Lucky Duck Games, Manuel Rozoy, Martin Wallace, Mindclash Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Negotiation Games, Pandasaurus Games, Peggy Chassenet, Railways of the World, Richard Amann, Roll and Write Games, Set Collection Games, Social Deduction Games, Space Cowboys, Storytelling Games, T.I.M.E. Stories, Targi, Ted Alspach, The Resistance: Avalon, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Trickerion, Viktor Peter, Welcome To..., Worker Placement Games
Posted on May 1, 2017
by whovian223
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It was another great month for “new to me” games in April. I played a total of six new ones, and not a bad one in the bunch. I always enjoy playing new games, but I’m not in the “Cult of the New,” as… Continue Reading “New to Me – April 2017”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Andrew Veen, Asher Stuhlman, Deadwood, Deckbuilders, Deus, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Gale Force 9, Loïc Lamy, Negotiation Games, Pearl Games, Peter Lee, Rodney Thompson, Sébastien Dujardin, The Gallerist, Tomb Trader, Tyrants of the Underdark, Vital Lacerda