A Gaming Life
Posted on March 6, 2023 by whovian223
February is the shortest month of the year, though it can seem quite long (or did before a stat holiday was added to it). It can seem even longer when you don’t get as many games played as usual! As I mentioned in my… Continue Reading “New to Me – February 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Adam Rehberg, Adam's Apple Games, Area Majority, Capstone Games, City Building, EmperorS4, Eros Lin, First Rat, Gabriele Ausiello, Hanamikoji: Geisha's Road, Hand Management, I Cut You Choose, Inhabit the Earth, Jerry Chiang, John Bohrer, Lunch Time Games, Pegasus Spiele, Pick Up & Deliver, Planet Unknown, Point to Point Movement, R&D Games, Racing Game, Richard Breese, Ride the Rails, Route-building, Ryan Lambert, Stocks, Tile-Laying Games, Virginio Gigli
Posted on September 26, 2022 by whovian223
(Edit – 10/5/22) – Designer Ted Alspach has confirmed that the online play for this is synchronous and not asynchronous. Maglev Metro is a popular game that has always kind of intimidated me. It was designed by Ted Alspach and published by Bezier Games.… Continue Reading “Maglev Metro From Bezier Games Coming Digitally on October 3”
Category: Apps, Board Games, NewsTags: Android, Bezier Games, ios, Maglev Metro, Pick Up & Deliver, Ted Alspach, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games
Posted on June 14, 2021 by whovian223
I know it’s been a while (my last post was May 28), but here were finally are with another entry in the COVID-long series of posts about games on Boardgame Geek and whether or not I’ve played them. Thankfully, it looks like the main… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #270-261”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Points, Andreas Schmidt, Area Movement, Bag Building, Christian Marcussen, Corey Konieczka, Dice-rolling, Don Eskridge, Eggertspiele, Fantasy Flight Games, Gabriele Mari, Gamelyn Games, Gianluca Santopietro, Glass Road, Heaven & Ale, Indie Boards & Cards, Kasper Aagaard, KLASK, Letters From Whitechapel, Lunch Time Games, Merchants & Marauders, Michael Kiesling, Mikkel Bertelsen, Northstar Games, Pick Up & Deliver, Rondel Games, Scott Almes, Social Deduction Games, Star Wars: Outer Rim, The Resistance, The Taverns of Tiefenthal, Tikal, Tile-Laying Games, Tiny Epic Galaxies, Tony Fanchi, Uwe Rosenberg, Wolfgang Kramer, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on February 4, 2020 by whovian223
It’s a brand new year! And this time, I can actually say that while talking about 2020 games (unlike last month). January was a busy month for new-to-me games. I went to two conventions on back-to-back weekends (that was a lot of fun but… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2020 (Part 1)”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Area Control, Bag Building, Bunny Kingdom, Caleb Grace, Card Drafting, Circadians: First Light, Corey Konieczka, Daily Magic Games, Dice Placement, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Henry Audobon, Horizons, Iello Games, Isaias Vallejo, Keymaster Games, Levi Mote, Living Card Games, Lunch Time Games, Marvel Champsions: the Card Game, Michael Boggs, Nate French, North Star Games, Parks, Pick Up & Deliver, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Garfield, Rick Holzgrafe, Set Collection Games, SJ MacDonald, Star Wars: Outer Rim, Tableau-building, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tile-Laying Games, Tony Fanchi, Villages of Valeria, Wolfgang Warsch
Posted on December 2, 2019 by whovian223
It’s December! The last month of the year, the Christmas (or whatever end-of-year holiday you celebrate) season is upon us, but before we look forward to all of those presents sitting under the tree (or sitting under whatever your end-of-year holiday object is), it’s… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Bezier Games, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Czech Games Edition, DOG, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Frosted Games, Letter Jam, Lunch Time Games, Matthias Cramer, Mike Elliott, Ondra SkoupĂ˝, Pick Up & Deliver, Renegade Games Studios, Res Arcana, Sand Castle Games, Tableau-building, Ted Alspach, Terror Below, The City, Tom Lehmann, Watergate, Werewords Deluxe, Word Games
Posted on January 22, 2019 by whovian223
It’s been almost three years in the making, but I almost hit 300 games played since I started recording plays and I thought it would be a great idea to give you what my top 25 games played are. Thanks to Pub Meeple for… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time (25-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andreas Steding, Bezier Games, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Diamonds, Gugong, Merchant of Venus, Mike Fitzgerald, Pick Up & Deliver, Ravensburger, Richard Hamblen, Stefan Feld, Stronghold Games, Suburbia, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Ted Alspach, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on October 1, 2018 by whovian223
After an August that was gangbusters, September slowed down on the “New to Me” front, but I still did enough that I was able to keep my role as cult leader. There was no attempted insurrection this month, though that could have been because… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2018”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Asymmetric Games, Benoit Turpin, Bezier Games, Blue Cocker Games, CMON, Cole Wehrle, Gizmos, Isaac Fryxelius, Jacob Fryxelius, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Phil Walker-Harding, Pick Up & Deliver, Roll and Write Games, Root, Root: Riverfolk expansion, Scott Caputo, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars Prelude, Tile-Laying Games, Welcome To..., Whistle Stop
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