Posted on September 8, 2025
by whovian223
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I love playing games that are new, even more when they’re older but still new to me! You know what I love even more? Having reviewed a bunch of them already so I don’t have to try and condense a description of them for… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 7 Empires, Action Selection, Area Control, Bezier Games, Bruce Glassco, Card Games, Card Shedding, David Thompson, Drafting Games, Fabio Lopiano, Final Crisis Game, GMT Games, Ladder-Climbing, Mac Gerdts, Nestore Mangone, Pandasaurus Games, Petr Mojžíš, Rio Grande Games, Roger Tankersley, Salt & Pepper Games, Seers Catalog, Shackleton Base, Solo Games, Sorry We Are French, Star Trek: Missions, Taylor Reiner, The Bell of Treason, Trevor Benjamin, Witchcraft!, Wizkids
Posted on August 31, 2025
by whovian223
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Solo games make a great thing to do when you’re working at home and want to take a lunch break to enjoy some games. David Thompson, Trevor Benjamin, and Roger Tankersley already have a wonderful solo game called Resist! that almost brought a tear… Continue Reading “Witch One Will You Convict? – Witchcraft! Review”
Posted on January 28, 2024
by whovian223
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When I was first talking about movement on this list between 2022 and 2024, I wasn’t sure how much movement there would be in the Top 10. Those games are still great, shouldn’t they stay up there? Of course, some games might supplant them,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#30-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alexander Pfister, Architects of the West Kingdom, Bezier Games, Block Wargames, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Chad Jensen, Cole Wehrle, Combat Commander: Pacific, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Daniele Tascini, David Thompson, Devir, Dice Drafting, Eggertspiele, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hans im Gluck, Isra C, John Foley, Kai Jensen, Kei Kajino, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Oink Games, Renegade Games Studios, Resist!, Richard Borg, Roger Tankersley, Rondel Games, Root, Salt & Pepper Games, SCOUT, Shei S, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Solo Games, The White Castle, Trevor Benjamin, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on October 29, 2023
by whovian223
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Ever since the COVID lockdowns began in 2020, I’ve become an avid consumer of solitaire games. One of the more popular solo games that have come out recently, getting great reviews from as disparate sources as Zilla Blitz and Chris Yi on the Dice… Continue Reading “Review – Resist!”
Posted on October 3, 2023
by whovian223
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September was a fairly lean month for gaming, especially new to me games. I’ve already talked about my September gaming in general, so how about the monthly chat about “new to me” games? I’m actually quite proud of the fact that this is my… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Brad Johnson, Card Games, David Thompson, Dice-rolling, Fryx Games, GMT Games, Jacob Fryxelius, Lunch Time Games, Resist!, Roger Tankersley, Salt & Pepper Games, Solo Games, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars: the Dice Game, The Barracks Emperors, Trevor Benjamin, Trick-taking games, Wray Ferrell
Posted on December 6, 2022
by whovian223
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November was an interesting month for boardgaming. I went to my second convention this year, a relatively small (compared to SHUX, anyway!) local wargaming convention where I was finally able to get a bit of wargaming done! Considering how many wargames I now have,… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2022”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Adam Rebottaro, Almoravid, Amigo Spiel, Arcana Rising, Ben Rosset, Between Two Cities, Block Wargames, Caesar's Empire, Card Games, Christopher Badell, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Cooperative Games, David Thompson, Deduction, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Engine-building, Excape, FloodGate Games, GMT Games, Greater Than Games, Grey Fox Games, Holy Grail Games, Kevin Hamano, Kites, Levy & Campaign Series, Lunch Time Games, Matthew O'Malley, Matthieu Podevin, No Mercy, Pixie Games, Push Your Luck Games, Rapido, Real-Time Games, Rebellion Unplugged, Reiner Knizia, Richard Borg, Roger Tankersley, Route-building, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition, Sniper Elite: the Board Game, Stonemaier Games, Tim Armstrong, Volko Ruhnke, Wargames