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New to Me – November 2021
Posted on December 3, 2021 by whovian223
Welcome to November’s “New to Me” post! You may notice something odd about November. No, it’s not that I had way too much Thanksgiving turkey (THANKSGIVING’S IN OCTOBER, YOU NON-CANADIANS!). It’s that three of the seven entries on this list are from Alderac Entertainment… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2021”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Auction Games, Avalon Hill, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Dice Drafting, Erik Andersson Sundén, Grand Austria Hotel, Henry Stern, Jump Drive, Kosmos, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Molly Johnson, Push Your Luck Games, Rio Grande Games, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich, Simone Luciani, TEN, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, The Op, Thomas Sing, Tom Lehmann, Trick-taking games, Variable Player Powers, Vegas Showdown, Virginio Gigli, Whirling Witchcraft, Wizards of the Coast
Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #240 – 231
Posted on September 6, 2021 by whovian223
Three weeks. Yes, that’s three weeks. Three weeks in a row where I’ve done an entry for the Top 300 games on BGG! Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? I know, right? I don’t believe it either! Anyway, this is the… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #240 – 231”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Points, Antiquity, Area Control, BattleLore 2nd Edition, Burgle Bros, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Contracts, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Dominion: 2nd Edition, Donald X. Vaccarino, Fantasy Flight Games, Fowers Games, Grid Movement, Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage, Imperial 2030, Jamey Stegmaier, Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga, Luke Laurie, Mac Gerdts, Marc Neidlinger, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Mark Simonitch, Minion Games, Orange Nebula, Point to Point Movement, Richard Borg, Rio Grande Games, Robert A Kouba, Rondel Games, Simone Luciani, Splotter Spellen, Stonemaier Games, Tapestry, The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, Tile-Laying Games, Tim Fowers, Tom Jolly, Valley Games, Vindication, Wargames, Z-Man Games
New To Me – August 2021
Posted on September 1, 2021 by whovian223
What’s this, out of the wild? Cue Marlin Perkins! Yes, it’s a “New to Me” games post! For the first time in a few months, I’ve actually played some new games, so I get to tell you about them! Yes, it’s been 4 months… Continue Reading “New To Me – August 2021”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Contracts, Cranio Creations, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Flaminia Brasini, Jacob Fryxelius, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Resource Management, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Simone Luciani, Stan Kordonskiy, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Big Box, Virginio Gigli, Worker Placement Games
Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #110-101
Posted on January 6, 2021 by whovian223
After months of waiting (I hope you weren’t holding your breath), we have reached the end of the line (for the second time). Yes, we are at the end of the Top 200 BGG games, and it’s been an interesting ride. I’ve really discovered… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #110-101”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Sadler, Alchemists, Area Control, Area Movement, Awaken Realms, Barrage, Bernd Brunnhofer, Card Drafting, Christian Martinez, Clank in Space, Corey Konieczka, Cranio Creations, Czech Games Edition, Daniel Clark, Deckbuilders, Decrypto, Deduction, Descent: Journeys into the Dark (2nd Edition), Dire Wolf Digital, Dungeon Crawl, Fantasy Flight Games, Forbidden Stars, Inis, James Kniffen, Jason Little, Kevin Wilson, Krzysztof Piskorski, Marcin Świerkot, Matagot, Matúš Kotry, Miniatures, Party Games, Paul Dennen, Portal Games, Renegade Games Studios, Resource Management, Samuel Bailey, Simone Luciani, Star Wars: X-Wing, Stone Age, Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon, Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance, Tommaso Battista, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? #40-31
Posted on June 24, 2020 by whovian223
Another week, another look at the BGG Top 100. I’m really loving the response to these posts. It really heartens me and makes me want to keep going (even though this is the first post since the last Top 100 post, which isn’t necessarily… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? #40-31”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Kwapiński, Adam Poots, Ameritrash, Awaken Realms, Blood Rage, Chris Cantrell, Civilization Building, CMON, Cole Wehrle, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Daniele Tascini, Eric Lang, Fantasy Flight Games, Friedemann Friese, Jonathan Ying, Justin Kemppainen, Kingdom Death, Kingdom Death Monster, Leder Games, Matt Leacock, Mechs vs Minions, Miniatures, Nathan Tiras, Nemesis, Pandemic Legacy: Season 2, Power Grid, Prashant Saraswat, Rick Ernst, Rio Grande Games, Riot Games, Rob Daviau, Root, Simone Luciani, Star Wars: Imperial Assault, Stone Librande, Through the Ages, Tzolkin: the Mayan Calendar, Vlaada Chvátil
Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 100-91
Posted on May 14, 2020 by whovian223
It’s no secret that I’ve been in a bit of blog doldrums over the last couple of weeks. The social isolation and not playing many games (none until last weekend, actually) except the apps that I do asynchronously, plus getting really busy at work… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 100-91”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Adam Sadler, Alchemists, App-related, Bernd Brunnhofer, Champions of Midgard, Clank in Space, Clank in Space: Apocalypse, Clank in Space: Cyber Station 11, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Cranio Creations, Crossroads, Czech Games Edition, Daniel Clark, Dead of Winter, Deckbuilders, Descent: Journeys into the Dark (2nd Edition), Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dungeon Crawl, Fantasy Flight Games, Flaminia Brasini, Forbidden Stars, Grand Austria Hotel, Grey Fox Games, Hisashi Hayashi, Isaac Vega, James Kniffen, Jonathan Gilmour, Kevin Wilson, Lookout Games, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Matúš Kotry, Ole Steiness, One vs Many, Paul Dennen, Plaid Hat Games, Renegade Games Studios, Samuel Bailey, Simone Luciani, Stone Age, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Virginio Gigli, Worker Placement Games, Yokohama, Zman Games
New to Me – February 2020
Posted on March 10, 2020 by whovian223
We’re a little late with the “New to Me Games” post for February, but there is definitely a good reason. Last week was the Cult of the New to Me fundraising car wash! Unfortunately, the flyers I sent out and put up had the… Continue Reading “New to Me – February 2020”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alderac, Area Control, Barrage, Brander Roullett, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card-Crafting Games, Cranio Creations, Dead Reckoning, Deckbuilders, Dice of Crowns, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Expansions, Football Highlights 2052, Frank West, Fryx Games, Gary Arant, Ian O'Toole, Jacob Fryxelius, John D Clair, Justin Gary, Lunch Time Games, Mike Fitzgerald, On Mars, Sean Epperson, Shards of Infinity, Simone Luciani, Stone Blade Entertainment, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Turmoil, The City of Games, The Isle of Cats, Thing 12 Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tommaso Battista, Ultra Pro, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games
New to Me – December 2019
Posted on January 3, 2020 by whovian223
Happy New Year! As we start the new year here at the Cult of the New to Me, we want to look back at the previous month, because looking back is what we do! That’s right. We never talk about the new to me… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alexander Pfister, Bluffing, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Crowd Games, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dice Placement, Exploration, Filip Miłuński, Granna Games, Great Western Trail, Great Western Trail: Rails to the North, Hurrican Games, Lunch Time Games, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Nagaraja, North Star Games, Simone Luciani, Space Explorers, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Théo Rivière, The Taverns of Tiefenthal, Tile-Laying Games, Warsaw: City of Ruins, Wolfgang Warsch, Yuri Zhuravljov, Zman Games
New to Me – April 2019
Posted on May 2, 2019 by whovian223
You know what? I rock. Yes, I do. Not only did I manage to get five new to me games played in April when I only was able to play eight in total, but two of those five games are more than ten years… Continue Reading “New to Me – April 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 51st State Master Set, Auction Games, Card Games, Conquest of Paradise, Cranio Creations, Embark, Empire-Building, Engine-building, GMT Games, High Society, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Kevin McPartland, Lunch Time Games, Nestore Mangone, Newton, Osprey Games, Philip duBarry, Portal Games, Reiner Knizia, Simone Luciani, Tasty Minstrel Grames
Lorenzo Il Magnifico Digital on Kickstarter Now
Posted on March 28, 2019 by whovian223
One of the popular games in the last couple of years has been Lorenzo Il Magnifico, a game about, well, an Italian guy named Lorenzo in Renaissance Italy. (Amazing how that works). The game, designed by Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli, and Simone Luciani, came… Continue Reading “Lorenzo Il Magnifico Digital on Kickstarter Now”
Category: Apps, Board Games, News, OpinionTags: CMON, Cranio Creations, Flaminia Brasini, kickstarter, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Simone Luciani, Steam, Virginio Gigli
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