Tag: Rio Grande Games
Posted on September 11, 2026
by whovian223
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Last week, I talked about people intentionally breaking a game by doing something that doesn’t change the game state. In the post, I referenced everybody in a game of Terraforming Mars just passing as their first action, which doesn’t do anything to make the… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – The Art of the Pass”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Alderac, Concordia, Cranio Creations, Czech Games Edition, Devir, Fryx Games, Garphill Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Into the Machine, Inventors of the South Tigris, Lookout Games, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Rio Grande Games, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Tapestry, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: the Dice Game, The White Castle, Wayfarers of the South Tigris
Posted on August 5, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re now starting to get into the 4000s in the Boardgame Geek game rankings, and while this century isn’t as bad as last week’s (though hopefully you think my post about it was A+, would highly recommend!), it is close. However, there are always… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4001-4100”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, AllPlay, Arcana Rising, Auction Games, Battle of Versailles, Bezier Games, Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig, Boardgame Hot Takes, Card Drafting, Card Games, Combat, Compass Games, Couture, Dire Wolf Digital, Game Makers, GMT Games, Grey Fox Games, Hand Management, Lightning Train, Lunch Time Games, Men of Iron: Tri-Pack, Milestones, Pegasus Spiele, Pizarro & Co, Play to Z, Rio Grande Games, Roll and Write Games, Rondel Games, Route-building, Salt & Pepper Games, Solo Games, Soothsayers, Take-That games, Wargames
Posted on July 29, 2026
by whovian223
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We’ve reached the 4000 mark in the BGG top ranked games list, and this century I have to say is one of the worst as far as my familiarity with any of the games goes. We haven’t hit the “I don’t know any of… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 3901-4000”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1066 Tears to Many Mothers, 18AL, 18XX, 2-Player Games, 7 Wonders Dice, Cafe International, Card Games, Civilization Building, Dice-rolling, Dinner in Paris, Doctor Who: Time of the Daleks, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Foxtrot Games, FunnyFox, Gale Force 9, Gamelyn Games, GMT Games, Hall or Nothing Productions, Lanterns Dice, Lunch Time Games, Pacific War, Railways of Nippon, Repos Games, Rio Grande Games, Roll and Write Games, Roll Through the Ages: The Iron Age, Route-building, Skies Above Britain, Solo Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tiny Epic Defenders, Wargames
Posted on July 6, 2026
by whovian223
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June wasn’t as big of a month for new to me games, which makes sense because even the convention I attended only had two. Bottoscons tend to have us play older games for the most part, though not always. Combine that with, as I… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Card Playing, Empire Builder: Europe, Joachim Thôme, La Boîte de Jeu, Lancaster, Matthias Cramer, Mayfair Games, New Frontiers, Queen Games, Rio Grande Games, Tom Lehmann, Train Games, Tribes of the Wind, Worker Placement Games
Posted on June 24, 2026
by whovian223
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Another short turnaround time for this Boardgame Geek century of games post, because I have another Friday Night Shots post ready to go, so I didn’t want this to go out on Friday too. You all are getting so lucky with these! Or at… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 3401 – 3500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 7 Empires, Abracada...What?, Action Selection, Ape Games, Area Control, Area Movement, Avalon Hill, B-17 Flying Fortress Leader, BLAM Games, BoardgameTables.com, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Dandelions, Deduction, Dice Placement, DVG Games, Exploding Kittens: NSFW Edition, First Martians, Lunch Time Games, Mayfair Games, Medici: the Card Game, Party Games, Patrician, Portal Games, Push Your Luck Games, Rio Grande Games, Roll and Move, Semi-cooperative Games, Solo Games, Splito, Storm Over Arnhem, Tuesday Night Games, Wargames, World Championship Russian Roulette, Z-Man Games
Posted on June 5, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s been over a week since the last Boardgame Geek century post, but last week was pretty full and I didn’t want to oversaturate the market. I didn’t want my readers to be overwhelmed with awesomness. But we’re back now, looking at another century… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 3101 – 3200”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Action Selection, Amigo Spiel, Avalon Hill, Carcassonne: Wheel of Fortune, Card Games, Circus Maximus, Delicious Games, Dice-rolling, Excape, Fort Circle Games, Gamewright Games, GMT Games, Go Nuts for Donuts, Gunslinger, Hans im Gluck, Irregular Conflict Series, Loosey Goosey Games, Lunch Time Games, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Rally the Troops, Rapido, Rio Grande Games, Set Collection Games, Shipyard (2nd Edition), Surfosaurus Max, The Shores of Tripoli, Tile-Laying Games, Vijayanagara, Wargames
Posted on June 3, 2026
by whovian223
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May was a busy month! I mean, not March busy, but definitely better than April busy. There was a 14-hour boardgame marathon where I ended up playing 8 games a total of 14 times. Just in one day! Then a couple of Sundays had… Continue Reading “May 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Alhambra, BG Stats, Board & Dice, Cranio Creations, Delicious Games, Economic Games, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Lunch Time Games, Nucleum, Queen Games, Ravensburger, Rio Grande Games, Sanssouci, Tile-Laying Games, Underwater Cities, Worker Placement Games
Posted on March 5, 2026
by whovian223
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Rob Bottos is a great guy. Not only is he kind and really interesting to talk to, but he also looks after his fellow gamers. He’s run the regular Bottoscon in New Westminster since 2007 (with one year’s break due to COVID) and it’s… Continue Reading “Bottoscon Winter 2026 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Area Control, Bottoscon Winter, Can't Stop, Card Games, CMYK, Combat Commander: Europe/Med Master Edition, Cooperative Games, Cover Your Kingdom, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Earth, Eldritch Horror, Expeditions, Fantasy Flight Games, Fliptoons, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Hand Management, How I Roll - Youtube, Inside Up Games, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Rio Grande Games, Roll and Move, Roll for the Galaxy, Sea Salt & Paper, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Take-That games, The Gang, Thunderworks Games, Wargames
Posted on March 3, 2026
by whovian223
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I thought February was going to be a big month for games, with two days of a convention at the end of the month of on top of our normal gaming. Sadly, me getting sick for over a week eliminated one Sunday along with… Continue Reading “February 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, BG Stats, Cape May, Card Games, Combat Commander: Europe/Med Master Edition, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Earth, Eldritch Horror, Fantasy Flight Games, Fort, GMT Games, Inside Up Games, Leder Games, Rio Grande Games, Roll for the Galaxy, SETI, SETI: Space Agencies, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Thunderworks Games, Tokaido
Posted on January 12, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re starting to get down into the dregs of the Boardgame Geek Top 2000 games. Not dregs in that these are bad games, because considering there are thousands of games in the BGG database, the top 2000 are still fairly highly rated. But just… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1701 Through 1800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Action Selection, Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #2, Alderac, Bang!, Bot Factory, Card Games, Devir, Dice City, Dice-rolling, DV Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, Hasbro, Hit Z Road, Ierusalem: Anno Domini, Lookout Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Pearl Games, Resource Management, Rio Grande Games, Robo Rally, Rondel Games, Salton Sea, Space Cowboys, Space Station Phoenix, Staufer Dynasty, Tournay, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games