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New To Me – September 2021
Posted on September 29, 2021 by whovian223
Another month and another “New to Me” games post. This is the 50th! It feels so good to finally be playing some new games. I’m trying to play some of the many games I bought during the worst of the pandemic (so this is… Continue Reading “New To Me – September 2021”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Alien Frontiers, Alien Frontiers: Factions, Alien Frontiers: Outer Belt, Arcane Wonders, Card Games, Chad Jensen, Combat Commander: Pacific, Formal Ferret Games, Gil Hova, GMT Games, Jacob Fryxelius, Kosmos, Lost Cities, Lunch Time Games, Nick Little, Onitama, Randall Bart, Reiner Knizia, Shimpei Sato, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, The Rival Networks, Tory Niemann, Wargames
Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #210-201
Posted on September 27, 2021 by whovian223
Can it really be? Yes, this is the last post in the BGG Top 300 series, first begun back in February. It’s been a long, hard year with COVID being alternately defeated and then making a rebound and forcing people to still try and… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #210-201”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, 2-Player Games, Auction Games, Bora Bora, Card-Driven Game, Cédrick Chaboussit, Christian Leonard, Czech Games Edition, Darwin Kastle, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Dungeon Petz, Economic Games, EmperorS4, Fantasy Flight Games, Friedemann Friese, GMT Games, Hanamikoji, Hero Realms, Imperial, Jason Matthews, Kota Nakayama, Lewis & Clark: the Expedition, Libellud, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, Mac Gerdts, Power Grid Deluxe, Ravensburger, Régis Bonnessée, Reiner Knizia, Rio Grande Games, Robert Dougherty, Samurai, Seasons, Stefan Feld, Tile-Laying Games, Vlaada Chvátil, Wise Wizard Games
Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #220-211
Posted on September 22, 2021 by whovian223
We’re heading into the home stretch with our look at the Top 300 games on Boardgame Geek. I may even finish before October! Wouldn’t that be a hoot? I’ve actually really enjoyed doing this list, even as I stated last week that it just… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #220-211”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Kwapiński, Age of Empires III: Discovery, Alderac, Area Control, Area Movement, Auction Games, Awaken Realms, Blue Orange Games, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Civilization Building, CMON, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Dixit: Odyssey, Fantasy Flight Games, Frank Brooks, Fury of Dracula, Glenn Drover, Hand Management, Hidden Movement, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Imperial Settlers, Jean-Louis Roubira, John D Clair, Kevin Wilson, Kingdomino, Libellud, Lords of Hellas, Lunch Time Games, Modern Art, Portal Games, Pulsar 2849, Reiner Knizia, Space Alert, Space Base, Stephen Hand, Tile-Laying Games, Tropical Games, Vlaada Chvátil, Vladimír Suchý
Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #230-221
Posted on September 17, 2021 by whovian223
It was a close one this week. Yes, I almost didn’t get this post done so that it would post this week at all. That would break my streak and we know that we can’t have that. But here it is! We’re three episodes… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #230-221”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alien Frontiers, Area Control, Battle Line, Card Games, Clever Mojo Games, Colby Dauch, Corey Konieczka, Dead of Winter: The Long Night, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Economic Games, Escape Room, Exit: The Abandoned Cabin, Fantasy Flight Games, Funtails, Glen More II: Chronicles, GMT Games, Hidden Traitor, Indonesia, Inka Brand, Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga, Kosmos, Mac Gerdts, Markus Brand, Matthias Cramer, Miniatures, Navegador, Plaid Hat Games, Reiner Knizia, Rio Grande Games, Rococo, Rondel Games, Rune Wars, Splotter Spellen, Summoner Wars: Master Set, Tory Niemann
Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – 180-171
Posted on September 24, 2020 by whovian223
This post has been a long time coming. Sorry about that. Life has a way of getting away from you sometimes, doesn’t it? Especially in these chaotic times. I swear that 2020 has been…well, let’s say “challenging.” However, I have made promises to people… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – 180-171”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Area Control, Auction Games, Bruno Sautter, Carcassonne, Card Drafting, Cartographers: a Roll Player Tale, Cyclades, Czech Games Edition, Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, Frank West, Galaxy Trucker, Goat Wolf & Cabbage, Hans im Gluck, Iello Games, Jamey Stegmaier, Jordy Adan, Just One, Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, Lucky Duck Games, Ludovic Roudy, Martin Wallace, Matagot, Max Temkin, Mayfair Games, Mike Boxleiter, Party Games, Queen Games, Ra, Ravensburger, Reiner Knizia, Repos Games, Roll and Write Games, Secret Hitler, Shogun, Social Deduction Games, Steam, Stonemaier Games, The Isle of Cats, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tobey Ho, Tommy Maranges, Train Games, Viticulture, Vlaada Chvátil, Worker Placement Games
Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #190-181
Posted on September 2, 2020 by whovian223
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
Now Even New Gamers Can Be a Hobbit
Posted on July 3, 2020 by whovian223
What does that cryptic headline mean? Fantasy Flight Games announced yesterday that they are going to be reissuing 2000’s classic 2-5 player cooperative game with those little fellows, The Lord of the Rings. This is a game from even before my time in gaming!… Continue Reading “Now Even New Gamers Can Be a Hobbit”
Category: Board Games, NewsTags: Cooperative Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Lord of the Rings, Reiner Knizia
Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 90-81
Posted on May 20, 2020 by whovian223
With the previous post in this series doing so well, I guess I should do more of them and finish the job, eh? Last week’s post was a lot of fun and I got some great feedback. Thanks to those of you who stopped… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 90-81”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dominion, Donald X. Vaccarino, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Guillaume Montiage, Jacques Bariot, Jason Little, Jesús Torres Castro, Kemet, Mancala games, Matagot, Matt Leacock, Miniatures, North Star Games, Pandemic, Pandemic: Iberia, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Raiders of the North Sea, Reiner Knizia, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, Shem Phillips, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases, Space Cowboys, Star Wars: X-Wing, Stefan Feld, Take That games, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tigris & Euphrates, Tile-Laying Games, Trajan, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Zman Games
New to Me – April 2019
Posted on May 2, 2019 by whovian223
You know what? I rock. Yes, I do. Not only did I manage to get five new to me games played in April when I only was able to play eight in total, but two of those five games are more than ten years… Continue Reading “New to Me – April 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 51st State Master Set, Auction Games, Card Games, Conquest of Paradise, Cranio Creations, Embark, Empire-Building, Engine-building, GMT Games, High Society, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Kevin McPartland, Lunch Time Games, Nestore Mangone, Newton, Osprey Games, Philip duBarry, Portal Games, Reiner Knizia, Simone Luciani, Tasty Minstrel Grames
Top Games Played in 2017 – Honourable Mentions
Posted on January 10, 2018 by whovian223
I managed to play 100 games in 2017. That’s a record for me, I think. Some were new to me (58 of them) while others were old favourites. Seven of my Top 10 games played were actually new to me, so they couldn’t have… Continue Reading “Top Games Played in 2017 – Honourable Mentions”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alexander Pfister, Blue Orange Games, Bruno Cathala, CMON, Dr. Finn's Games, Eduardo Baraf, EmperorS4, Foxtrot Games, Great Western Trail, Hanamikoji, Herbaceous, J. Alex Kevern, Keith Matejka, Kota Nakayama, Modern Art, QueenDomino, Reiner Knizia, Renegade Games Studios, Steve Finn, Stronghold Games, Worlds Fair 1893
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