Tag: Route-building
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 June 17, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s June, so it must be time for the 2nd annual Bottoscon Spring convention! Bottoscon is a convention created and run by (though the running of it is helped by numerous other people as well) Rob Bottos, a great guy who looks out for… Continue Reading “Bottoscon Spring 2026 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Bag Building, Bingo, Bottoscon Spring, Card Games, Card Playing, CMYK, Combat Commander: Europe/Med Master Edition, Cover Your A$$ets, Dice Placement, Ecos: First Continent, Empire Builder: Europe, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Long Shot: The Dice Game, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, Mayfair Games, Mindclash Games, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Pandasaurus Games, Perplext, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Route-building, Scholars of the South Tigris, Sea Salt & Paper, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Tribes of the Wind, Trickerion, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on June 1, 2026
by whovian223
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There were no conventions attended in May, but there was a 14-hour games marathon where a bunch of games were played. So I knew this would be a lengthy post! This month, I actually played more new to me games than I did in… Continue Reading “New to Me – May 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Amigo Spiel, Area Control, Asmodee North America, AuZtralia, Brett J Gilbert, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Circus Flohcati, Cooperative Games, Craig E. Somerton, Dice-rolling, DNUP, Drafting Games, El Grande, Farm Hand, First Giants, Florenza: the Card Game, Gang of Dice, Gémklub, Gst, Hand Management, Hans im Gluck, Hasbro, Heckmeck am Karteneck, Katharine Chapman, Kei Kajino, Limited communication games, Lookout Games, Luc Rémond, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Martin Wallace, Matthew Dunstan, Monopoly Deal - Card Game, Nusfjord, Placentia Games, Push Your Luck Games, Reiner Knizia, Richard Ulrich, Route-building, SchilMil Games, Scorpion Masqué, Semi-cooperative Games, Set Collection Games, Sky Team, Space Cowboys, Stefano Groppi, Take-That games, Trick-taking games, Uwe Rosenberg, Wolfgang Kramer, Worker Placement Games, Zoch Verlag
Posted on March 21, 2026
by whovian223
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As we get further and further down the BGG rankings, the pickings are becoming increasingly slim. But it’s also made me think a little bit, considering some of the games that show up in each century. I know, thinking is dangerous, especially for me.… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2201 – 2300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 5 Minute Marvel, Alderac, Area Control, Area Majority, Ascension, Ascension: Rise of Vigil, Avalon Hill, B-17: Queen of the Skies, Caesar's Empire, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Cease and Desist, Citrus, City of Iron, Civilization Building, Cooperative Games, Deckbuilders, DLP Games, Dragonfire, GMT Games, Hearts, Holy Grail Games, Levy & Campaign Series, Nevsky, Real-Time Games, Red Raven Games, Route-building, Smash Up, Solo Games, Spades, Spielworxx, Spin Master Games, Stoneblade, Unconditional Surrender, Wargames, Weimar, Wizards of the Coast
Posted on February 16, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve done one of these BGG centuries posts, though not because I was getting tired of them. There were just more important things to post about! I enjoy writing these BGG posts, even when the games are… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1901 Through 2000”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #3, Alderac, Chilifox Games, COIN Games, Contracts, Cwali, Dice Drafting, Draft & Write Records, Drafting Games, Empire Builder, Factory Funner, Fields of Fire 2, GMT Games, Halls of Hegra, Inside Up Games, Multiman Publishing, Pendragon: the Fall of Roman Britain, Queen Games, Ravensburger, Roll and Write Games, Route-building, Schadenfreude, Solo Games, Spectacular, Studio Turbine, Tile-Laying Games, Tompet Games, Trick-taking games, Wallenstein, Wargames, Whirling Witchcraft
Posted on December 27, 2025
by whovian223
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Sorry for breaking the weekly schedule, those of you who have been following these posts so religiously (hi, Bob!) Last week had other important posts to do that didn’t take quite as much time, because these posts do take a lot of effort and… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1501 Through 1600”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: A Gest of Robin Hood, Action Selection, Alderac, Area Control, Area Movement, BoardgameTables.com, Card Games, CMYK, COIN Games, Contracts, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Game Brewer, GMT Games, Hostage Negotiator, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Middle Ages, Mountain Goats, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Renegade Games Studios, Route-building, Sentient, Smash Up, Smash Up: It's Your Fault, Starship Captains, Stroganov, Tableau-building, TEN, The Hunger, Transamerica, Van Ryder Games, Variable Player Powers, White Goblin Games, Winsome Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 18, 2025
by whovian223
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I really like how successful these posts have been! There has been some true engagement as people have gone through the lists and talked about their own experiences with them. I know the last post was Sunday, but let’s get back onto that weekly… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1401 Through 1500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Ancient Knowledge, Arcane Wonders, Area Majority, Avalon Hill, Betrayal at Baldur's Gate, Bezier Games, Blacklist Games, Cooperative Games, Dale of Merchants 2, Deckbuilders, DVG Games, Foundations of Metropolis, Hidden Roles, HUCH Games, Iello Games, It's a Wonderful Kingdom, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, Pavlov's House, Pegasus Spiele, Rio Grande Games, Route-building, Royals, Scorpion Masqué, Seas of Strife, Snowdale Design, Star Trek: Captain's Chair, Strasbourg, Street Masters, Tag Team, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vanuatu, Whistle Stop, Wizkids
Posted on July 3, 2025
by whovian223
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Ah, June. Halfway through the year (at the end of it anyway) and it’s good to take stock of where I am in my boardgaming. I’ve played more than half again the number of unique games as I did last year, meaning I (hopefully)… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, After Us, AJ Porfirio, Bill Fawcett, Card Games, Catch Up Games, COIN Games, Czech Games Edition, Darwin Bromley, David Karesh, Dice Drafting, Empire Builder, Evan Derrick, Fillers, Final Girl, Florian Sirieix, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Kenneth Tee, Lepidoptery, Lunch Time Games, Mayfair Games, Mob+, New Mill Industries, Pandasaurus Games, People Power, Pulsar 2849, Resource Management, Route-building, Shem Phillips, Skara Brae, Solo Games, Srinivas Vasudevan, Train Games, Trick & Snipers, Trick-taking games, Van Ryder Games, Vladimír Suchý, 宮野 華也 (Kaya Miyano)
Posted on July 1, 2025
by whovian223
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With a convention in June (Bottoscon for the win!), I knew that June would be a much better month for gaming than May was. That’s one reason I love convention months! Even so, there weren’t as many “new to me” games as in previous… Continue Reading “June 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Alderac, BG Stats, Card Drafting, Czech Games Edition, Days of Wonder, Dice-rolling, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Imhotep, Kosmos, Let's Go to Japan, Let's Go to Japan - Grab Your Passport, Prodigals Club, Res Arcana, Route-building, Sand Castle Games, Scholars of the South Tigris, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, Ticket to Ride