Posted on March 6, 2023
by whovian223
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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 March 4, 2023
by whovian223
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February was a weird month for gaming. I missed on Sunday Funday because of doing a math trade (where I traded 17 games for a bunch of money and 5 other games!) and then I was on vacation for a week so we didn’t… Continue Reading “February 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Ben Pinchback, Card Games, Chad Jensen, Charioteer, Combat Commander, Commands & Colors: Ancients, GMT Games, Hanamikoji, Kota Nakayama, Lunch Time Games, Matt Calkins, Matt Riddle, Racing Game, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Borg, Subastral
Posted on January 10, 2023
by whovian223
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OrcaCon is a convention held in Bellevue, Washington in January every year. Sadly, I wasn’t able to go last year and the two years before that…well, something happened. I’m not really sure what. I went to my first OrcaCon in January 2020 and then… Continue Reading “OrcaCon 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Alexander Pfister, Andrew Parks, Atlas Games, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Bluffing, Calico, Card Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Charioteer, CMON, Contracts, Core Worlds, David Fooden, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, Elizabeth Hargrave, Engine-building, Gizmos, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Kevin Russ, Lunch Time Games, Matt Calkins, Monster Couch, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Nick Little, Nicolas Robert, On Mars, Pearl Games, Phil Walker-Harding, Racing Game, Rondel Games, Seals of Cthulhu, Sean Epperson, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, The Bloody Inn, Thing 12 Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wingspan, Wingspan: Asia, Wingspan: European Expansion, Wingspan: Oceania expansion, Yukon Salon
Posted on January 3, 2023
by whovian223
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December was a curtailed month for games. The last game I played was on December 13 (or December 16 if you count my Combat Commander ladder game I played on a Friday night). Between a Sunday Funday being snowed out, Christmas falling on a… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2022”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, Asger Granerud, Bruce Glassco, Card Drafting, Charioteer, Daniel Skjold Pedersen, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Eilif Svensson, GMT Games, Heat: Pedal to the Metal, Helge Meissner, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lunch Time Games, Marvel: Remix, Matt Calkins, Racing Game, Revive, Set Collection Games, Wizkids
Posted on March 7, 2022
by whovian223
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February is the shortest month of the year, but I still managed to not only get a bunch of new to me games in, but they were all good! I mean, none of them were 1960: The Making of a President good (well, maybe… Continue Reading “New to Me – February 2022”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Abstract Games, Alderac, Ark Nova, Axio Rota, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Carlo Bortolini, Clank in Space, Clank in Space Adventures: Pulsearcade, Corey Young, Cubitos, Deckbuilders, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Duel Games, Evan Lorentz, Expansions, Gravwell 2nd Edition, Hurrican Games, John D Clair, Lunch Time Games, Mathias Wigge, Paolo Mori, Pattern-Building Games, Paul Dennen, Pegasus Spiele, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Reiner Knizia, Renegade Games Studios, Riftforce, Tableau-building, Via Magica
Posted on February 11, 2022
by whovian223
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Sometimes life really sucks. I’m talking about Grade A disasters like missing the last bus of the night and having to find some place to stay because your stupid friend passed out right after you left and he’s not answering the door to let… Continue Reading “Review – Gravwell 2nd Edition”
Posted on September 2, 2020
by whovian223
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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 October 1, 2019
by whovian223
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It had been a quiet September at Dude Central. There was a birthday party that nobody came to (it’s not my fault I accidentally put September 9, 2018 on the invitations. How was I supposed to know that everybody would actually look at the… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alea, Alexander Pfister, Area Control, Benjamin Schwer, Blackout: Hong Kong, Chariot Race, Civilization Building, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, George Skourtis, Hadara, Hans im Gluck, Lunch Time Games, Macao, Matt Leacock, Nocturion, Pegasus Spiele, Racing Game, Ravensburger, Resource Management, Stefan Feld, Vesuvius Media, Zman Games
Posted on September 3, 2019
by whovian223
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It’s September, and it’s hard to believe the school year’s about to start. Where has 2019 gone? August was a good month for new to me games, even if there were only three of them (I did playtest a couple at Dragonflight, but I’m… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea, Carla Horger, Chris Vorder Bruegge, Civilization Building, GMT Games, Herve Lemaitre, Jeff Horger, Kolossal Games, Mark McLaughlin, Racing Game, Sandbox games, Take-That games, Thunder Alley, Western Legends
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