Tag: Rock Hard 1977
Posted on October 2, 2026
by whovian223
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We’ve all played those games before. The games where just sitting there playing the game, using the mechanisms (card drafting, worker placement, whatever) and you just think “this isn’t really that different than (fill in the blank) and it’s kind of boring.” But then… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Games Where the “Extras” Make the Game Better”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night Shots, OpinionTags: Alderac, Bohemians, Card Drafting, Deckbuilders, Devir, Jackie Fox, Let's Go to Japan, Portal Games, Rock Hard 1977, Story-driven Games, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on July 9, 2026
by whovian223
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I normally don’t do two posts in one day, but I couldn’t contain my excitement about this one and wanted to post something quick about it. It’s long been known that Rock Hard is one of my favourite games out there right now, but… Continue Reading “Rock Hard: Ear Candy Update”
Posted on January 23, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s time once again for another decade in my Top 50 games played of all time. It’s been a thrilling ride for me, because I really enjoy sharing the games I love and seeing if anybody agrees with me, or if I’m out on… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#20-11)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, AJ Porfirio, Alexander Pfister, Asymmetric Games, Capstone Games, Clank in Space, CMYK, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Delicious Games, Dennis Northcott, Devir, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Evan Derrick, Final Girl, Galactic Cruise, Jackie Fox, Kinson Key Games, Koltin Thompson, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Paul Dennen, Pirates of Maracaibo, Racing Game, Ralph Bienert, Renegade Games Studios, Resafa, Richard Garfield, Rock Hard 1977, Roll and Move, Rondel Games, Ryan Hendrickson, SETI, Solo Games, T.K. King, Takashi Ishida, Tomáš Holek, Underwater Cities, Van Ryder Games, Vladimír Suchý, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 6, 2026
by whovian223
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This isn’t exactly “news,” because designer Jackie Fox has been talking about it for a while on Boardgame Geek. But hearing more detail (including a relative release date, which may have been announced before but it didn’t register in my brain) made me decide… Continue Reading “Rock Hard 1977 – Ear Candy – Coming in August 2026”
Posted on December 5, 2025
by whovian223
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It’s Friday! Time for another look at 100 games on the Boardgame Geek top rankings. Ok, last week’s was Wednesday, and the week before was Thursday. It hasn’t taken its Metamucil yet. Just go with it, ok? It’s going to be weekly, but not… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1201 Through 1300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Action Selection, Adventure Games, Arcane Wonders, Artipia Games, Bad Company, Bezier Games, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Comic Hunters, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Empire's End, Fallout, Fantasy Flight Games, Flick of Faith, Galileo Galilei, GMT Games, Jump Drive, Lunch Time Games, Memoir '44, Moon Colony Bloodbath, Pandasaurus Games, Pretty Pretty Smash Up, Prodigals Club, Rebel Princess, Resist!, Rio Grande Games, Rock Hard 1977, Smash Up, Solo Games, Space Base, Star Wars: Battle of Hoth, The Game, Time of Crisis, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Witchcraft!, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 1, 2025
by whovian223
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I knew November would be much better than October for my gaming, because there’s a really nice 4-day convention in November. I didn’t expect that it would be this much better, though! In November, I managed to play 36 games a total of 57… Continue Reading “November 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Bomb Busters, Bottoscon, Card Games, Combat Commander, Cover Your A$$ets, Deckbuilders, Doomlings, Dune Imperium, Ecos: First Continent, Final Girl, Galactic Cruise, Hansa Teutonica, Inventors of the South Tigris, Inventors of the South Tigris - Era of Experts, Lunch Time Games, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, SETI, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on November 11, 2025
by whovian223
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This past weekend was the 19th annual Bottoscon convention at the Inn at the Quay in New Westminster, Canada. We’re almost at 20! The con is run by Rob Bottos, a great guy who has taken to heart what many of us Canadians have… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2025 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, AllPlay, Aporta Games, Artipia Games, Bad Company, Bottoscon, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cascadia, CMON, CMYK, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Devir, Diamonds, Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Flatout Games, Galactic Cruise, Gizmos, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jackie Fox, Kinson Key Games, Kosmos, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Oddland, Origin Story, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, Roll and Move, Schadenfreude, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Pepper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, The Gang, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games
Posted on June 18, 2025
by whovian223
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I love game conventions. Not only do they give me even more of an opportunity to play great games, but it gives me the opportunity to game and chat with many people who I don’t see very often. That’s why Bottoscon is one of… Continue Reading “Bottoscon Spring 2025 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Archaeology - The New Expedition, Bottoscon Spring, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card Shedding, COIN Games, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Devir, Diamonds, Empire Builder, Fantastic Factories, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Jackie Fox, Lepidoptery, Let's Go to Japan, Let's Go to Japan - Grab Your Passport, Lunch Time Games, Mayfair Games, Metafactory Games, Mob+, New Mill Industries, Pandasaurus Games, People Power, Pick Up & Deliver, Prodigals Club, Pushing Cardboard, Rock Hard 1977, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, SETI, Stronghold Games, Trick & Snipers, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on April 4, 2025
by whovian223
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Welcome back to the bar! Last month, I mentioned how this is almost becoming a monthly thing instead of a weekly thing. That was…one month ago. I guess it is! Welcome to the finest bar in the city, because it’s so clean. It certainly… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – A Quick & Dirty Top 50”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night Shots, Top 10Tags: Civolution, Cranio Creations, Czech Games Edition, Delicious Games, Devir, Grand Austria Hotel, Heavy Cardboard, Lookout Games, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Pegasus Spiele, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, Shipyard (2nd Edition)
Posted on January 8, 2025
by whovian223
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I’ve been writing this blog for almost 8 years now, doing a monthly “new to me” post for just as long (it started in April 2017, but it was about March’s games!), and I often do “best games played” of the year if I’m… Continue Reading “Top 10 New to Me Games of 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to Me, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Alderac, Alexander Pfister, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Civolution, Contracts, Corentin Lebrat, Delicious Games, Devir, Dice Placement, Eggertspiele, Eric Hong, Faraway, Forest Shuffle, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Harmonies, Jackie Fox, Johan Benvenuto, Johannes Goupy, Josh Wood, Kosch, Let's Go to Japan, Libellud, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Pegasus Spiele, Pirates of Maracaibo, Racing Game, Ralph Bienert, Rock Hard 1977, Rondel Games, Ryan Hendrickson, Shipyard (2nd Edition), Stefan Feld, Tableau-building, Tile-Laying Games, Vale of Eternity, Vladimír Suchý, Worker Placement Games