Posted on December 9, 2020
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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
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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 October 9, 2020
by whovian223
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Another week, another “wow, I haven’t played many games” post. It’s almost like I’m failing as a “gamer”. Is that possible? Should I really feel bad that I haven’t played a bunch of games? Maybe, if I’m actually writing about them. Am I not… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #160-151”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adrian Adamescu, Aeon's End: War Eternal, Alan R Moon, Andreas "Ode" Odendahl, Arcadia Quest, Area Control, Block Wargames, Card Drafting, Card Games, CMON, Codenames: Duet, Collectible Card Game, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Daryl Andrews, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Eric Lang, FloodGate Games, Fred Perret, GMT Games, Guilherme Goulart, Indie Boards & Cards, Kevin Riley, La Granja, Lunch Time Games, Magic: the Gathering, Matt Calkins, Michael Keller, Miniatures, Richard Garfield, Rio Grande Games, Sagrada, Scot Eaton, Sekigahara: the Unification of Japan, Set Collection Games, Space Cowboys, Splendor, Thiago Aranha, Tichu, Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries, Trick-taking games, Urs Hostettler, Vlaada Chvátil, Wizards of the Coast
Posted on July 6, 2020
by whovian223
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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”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Dice-rolling, Elder Sign, Fantasy Flight Games, Jaipur, Kevin Wilson, Richard Launius, Roll and Write Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Space Cowboys, Stronghold Games, Twice as Clever, Wolfgang Warsch
Posted on May 20, 2020
by whovian223
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With the previous post in this series doing so well, I guess I should do more of them and finish the job, eh? Last week’s post was a lot of fun and I got some great feedback. Thanks to those of you who stopped… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 90-81”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dominion, Donald X. Vaccarino, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Guillaume Montiage, Jacques Bariot, Jason Little, Jesús Torres Castro, Kemet, Mancala games, Matagot, Matt Leacock, Miniatures, North Star Games, Pandemic, Pandemic: Iberia, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Raiders of the North Sea, Reiner Knizia, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, Shem Phillips, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases, Space Cowboys, Star Wars: X-Wing, Stefan Feld, Take-That games, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tigris & Euphrates, Tile-Laying Games, Trajan, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Zman Games
Posted on June 14, 2017
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Splendor is a relatively fast, pretty fun game about collecting gems and using those gems to buy more gems. It plays in about half an hour and is actually a joy to play (maybe because it’s one of the few games that it’s not… Continue Reading “Cities of Splendor expansion coming from Asmodee”