A Gaming Life
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 August 31, 2022 by whovian223
August turned out to be a good month for gaming after a smaller July. Not only 30 plays of 22 games, but 11 new to me ones! That means (Gulp!) the “New to Me” post is going to be a bit late this month.… Continue Reading “My August 2022 Gaming”
Category: Board GamesTags: Action Selection, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Chad Jensen, Combat Commander: Europe, Deckbuilders, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Paul Peterson, Renegade Games Studios, Roll and Write Games, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Smash Up, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tom Lehmann, Worker Placement Games
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”
Posted on May 6, 2021 by whovian223
April was not a good month of gaming for me. In March, I played a bunch of live games on Boardgame Arena to really pad my stats and it was a lot of fun. In April, however, I didn’t even really do that. I… Continue Reading “New to Me – April 2021”
Posted on December 9, 2020 by whovian223
After three weeks or so, it’s time for another entry in the BGG Top 200! We’re almost done, which you would think would mean that I could actually get these done in a timely manner. But, you know, COVID and everything. Yeah, I do… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #130-121”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, A Game of Thrones: the Board Game (2nd Edition), Action Selection, Andreas Steiger, Area Movement, Auction Games, Benoit Turpin, Bezier Games, Brian Lewis, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Christian T. Petersen, Chronicles of Crime, Cooperative Games, David Cicurel, Deduction, Deep Water Games, Dinosaur Island, Don Eskridge, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Glenn Drover, GMT Games, Indie Boards & Cards, Jonathan Gilmour, Kosmos, Lucky Duck Games, Manuel Rozoy, Martin Wallace, Mindclash Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Negotiation Games, Pandasaurus Games, Peggy Chassenet, Railways of the World, Richard Amann, Roll and Write Games, Set Collection Games, Social Deduction Games, Space Cowboys, Storytelling Games, T.I.M.E. Stories, Targi, Ted Alspach, The Resistance: Avalon, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Trickerion, Viktor Peter, Welcome To..., Worker Placement Games
Posted on November 12, 2020 by whovian223
Welcome to this week’s edition of BGG’s Top 200 games! The series where I look at those games in the BGG rankings from #200-101, ten games at a time. Two weeks in a row? That’s gotta be a record. Things are actually looking pretty… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #140 – 131”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andreas Steding, Area Control, Bezier Games, Bill Eberle, Bill Norton, Card Games, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Cosmic Encounter, Days of Wonder, Deduction, Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Dice-rolling, Fantasy Flight Games, GMT Games, Hansa Teutonica, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Jack Kittredge, Jaipur, Jakub Łapot, Kevin Wilson, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Memoir '44, Nate French, Ora et Labora, Peter Olotka, Portal Games, Przemysław Rymer, Richard Borg, Roll and Write Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Space Cowboys, Stronghold Games, Suburbia, Ted Alspach, That's Pretty Clever, The Lord of the Rings: the Card Game, Tile-Laying Games, Uwe Rosenberg, Wargames, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
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
Posted on July 6, 2020 by whovian223
It was a month of horror in the Dude Take Your Turn household in June. Not because of anything bad, and certainly nothing virus-related. It’s just that 2 of the 4 new games played this month have to do with Ancient Evils trying destroy… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2020”
Posted on February 10, 2020 by whovian223
Whew! I’m finally awake again after finishing last week’s Part 1 of my “New to Me Games – January” post. That really took a lot out of me. It’s been a week and I’m just now recovering! Excuse me while I hop on my… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2020 (Part 2)”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alderac, Artipia Games, At the Gates of Loyang, Bag Building, Bluffing, Card Drafting, Clank in Space: Cyber Station 11, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Druid City Games, Ecos: First Continent, Evan Lorentz, Farming, Fields of Green, Haakon Gaarder, John D Clair, Party Games, Renegade Games Studios, Roll and Write Games, Scott Caputo, Set Collection Games, Sinister Fish Games, Sorcerer City, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Tasty Minstrel Grames, That's Pretty Clever, Tile-Laying Games, Tim McKnight, Uwe Rosenberg, Vangelis Bagiartakis, Villagers, Wolfgang Warsch
Posted on October 31, 2019 by whovian223
October was SHUX month. SHUX is a 3-day boardgame convention in Vancouver that was simply phenomenal. I had so much fun, and would have had even more fun if I hadn’t felt so terrible. Maybe next year! You know what conventions mean, right? No,… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 5x5 City, Alderac, Board & Dice, Brian Henk, Card Drafting, Card Games, Civilization Building, Clayton Skancke, Corinth, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Denis Plastinin, Dice-rolling, Dylan Mangini, Explorers of the North Sea, Garphill Games, Grey Fox Games, Hisashi Hayashi, Jamey Stegmaier, Jonny Pac Cantin, Lunch Time Games, Mico, Modular Games, Molly Johnson, Okazu Brand, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Pull the Pin Games, Renegade Games Studios, Robert Melvin, Roll and Write Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Shawn Stankewich, Shem Phillips, Sierra West, SJ MacDonald, Stonemaier Games, Tapestry, Tile-Laying Games, War of the Worlds: the New Wave, Worker Placement Games, Zorro Dice Game
This is a blog about board games, with the occasional other post for a bit of spice.