A Gaming Life
Posted on February 16, 2026 by whovian223
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve done one of these BGG centuries posts, though not because I was getting tired of them. There were just more important things to post about! I enjoy writing these BGG posts, even when the games are… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1901 Through 2000”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #3, Alderac, Chilifox Games, COIN Games, Contracts, Cwali, Dice Drafting, Draft & Write Records, Drafting Games, Empire Builder, Factory Funner, Fields of Fire 2, GMT Games, Halls of Hegra, Inside Up Games, Multiman Publishing, Pendragon: the Fall of Roman Britain, Queen Games, Ravensburger, Roll and Write Games, Route-building, Schadenfreude, Solo Games, Spectacular, Studio Turbine, Tile-Laying Games, Tompet Games, Trick-taking games, Wallenstein, Wargames, Whirling Witchcraft
Posted on February 11, 2026 by whovian223
January 2026 wasn’t a huge month for new to me games, though the ones I did play were very fun. That may change in February, though, since a friend of mine has bought a few games I’ve never played, so we’ll get some of… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Area Control, Åsmund Svensson, Campaign Games, Card Games, Castellans, Chilifox Games, Christian Kudahl, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Eilif Svensson, Erik Andersson Sundén, Glorious Guilds of Buttonville, Isaias Vallejo, Lunch Time Games, Office Dog, Ravensburger, Reiner Knizia, Roll and Write Games, Set Collection Games, Spectacular, The Hobbit: There & Back Again, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on December 14, 2025 by whovian223
Sorry to break the “weekly” routine, but other posts needed to happen last week. But hey, at least it’s Sunday! Ok, that’s part of the next week, but still It’s time for another look through the Boardgame Geek top game rankings, this time in… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1301 Through 1400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, A Distant Plain, Action Selection, ADC Blackfire Entertainment, Alderac, Ambush!, Andean Abyss, Calimala, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Castle Panic, Claim, COIN Games, Cooperative Games, Deduction, Diamonds, Dice-rolling, Falling Sky, Fireside Games, For the People, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Machi Koro, Pandasaurus Games, Ravensburger, Renegade Games Studios, Riftforce, Search for Lost Species, Smash Up: Monster Smash, Strike, Stronghold Games, Trick-taking games, Victory Games, Wargames, White Goblin Games, Wilderness War
Posted on January 21, 2024 by whovian223
Two weeks and two entries into this list. Maybe I’ll be able to actually do this weekly, unlike in 2022! It was interesting doing a Top 50 rather than a Top 25. Some games have fallen enough that they wouldn’t even be listed if… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#40-31)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Alderac, Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, Block Wargames, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Contracts, Cosmodrome Games, Daily Magic Games, Darwin's Journey, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Economic Games, Eilif Svensson, Formal Ferret Games, Garphill Games, Gil Hova, GMT Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Helge Meissner, Ivan Lashin, John D Clair, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Nestore Mangone, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Ravensburger, Renegade Games Studios, Revive, Richard Borg, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Smartphone Inc, Space Base, Stan Kordonskiy, Stefan Feld, The Networks, Thundergryph Games, Tile-Laying Games, Virginio Gigli, Wargames
Posted on December 8, 2023 by whovian223
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 13, 2023 by whovian223
Hey there! It’s the weekend again, and I really appreciate you stopping by every week just to chat board games. Or to chat about anything, really. Actually, that’s not totally true, but it is nice to see you! Let me pour you a drink… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Liking Low-Rated Games”
Posted on October 6, 2022 by whovian223
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
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 April 7, 2022 by whovian223
(Edit: 5/19/22) – The campaign is scheduled to go live on May 24 at 5 pm CEST! If you’re a “serious” gamer, you’ve heard of Castles of Burgundy even if you haven’t formed an opinion one way or the other. “Wonderful game! My favourite… Continue Reading “Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition Coming to Gamefound Soon”
Posted on January 7, 2022 by whovian223
It’s the end of the year 2021 (or it was when I played these games, anyway). Having been able to go to game days again since August 2021, it was nice to have a bunch of new to me games to play each month!… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2021”
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