Posted on October 30, 2026
by whovian223
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Posting this early because I know I’m not playing any new to me games today or tomorrow! Look at me, being all efficient and stuff. October looked like it would be another dry month for new to me games (and as you will find… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Can't Win, Card Games, Cassette Crush: Mixtape Masters, CMON, Cooperative Games, Elizabeth Hargrave, Engames, Garphill Games, Hand Management, Jean-Baptiste Lullien, Lunch Time Games, Multi-use cards, Nicolas Raoult, Raphaël Guiton, Rob Newton, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stonemaier Games, Taiki Shinzawa (新澤 大樹), Talon Strike Studios, Towers of Sifnos, Trick-taking games, Wingspan Pocket, Zilla Blitz, Zombicide: 2nd Edition
Posted on October 22, 2026
by whovian223
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A day’s delay, so I hope nobody’s gone blue holding their breath for this post. I’ll try to do better next week! These Boardgame Geek century of boardgame rankings posts are still getting some great reactions for me. Always love it when somebody in… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 5101 – 5200”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 13 Leaves, 2-Player Games, Alderac, Banish the Snakes, Bluffing, Brass Pittsburgh, Card Games, Card Shedding, Cardcassone, CMYK, Cooperative Games, Dice-rolling, Duel of Meloch, Economic Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Forest Shuffle - Smoky Mountains, GMT Games, I'm Out, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Player Elimination, Rio Grande Games, Roxley Games, Slugfest Games, Smash Up, Smash Up World Tour: Culture Shock, Smile, Solo Games, Stalingrad Pocket, Star Trek: Missions, Stonemaier Games, The Red Dragon Inn 7: The Tavern Crew, Wargames, Wizkids, X-Men: Mutant Insurrection, Z-Man Games
Posted on October 14, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re now on the downward slope heading to the 10,000 level of games ranked on Boardgame Geek. Yet there are still some decent ones down here! That just goes to show you that a low-ranked game does not necessarily mean it is bad. Of… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 5001 – 5100”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Alderac, AllPlay, Amigo Spiel, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, Card Games, Compass Games, Dance of Ibexes, Duel of Meloch, Enemy Action: Kharkov, Forest Shuffle - Smoky Mountains, Game Makers, GMT Games, Hand Management, I Cut You Choose, I Made You a Mixtape, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Massive Asterisk, Mixlore, Multi-use cards, Oddland, Peloponnesian War, Ramen Fury, Set Collection Games, Smash Up World Tour: International Incident, Solo Games, Stonemaier Games, Thebai, Tile-Laying Games, Variable Player Powers, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket
Posted on September 11, 2026
by whovian223
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Last week, I talked about people intentionally breaking a game by doing something that doesn’t change the game state. In the post, I referenced everybody in a game of Terraforming Mars just passing as their first action, which doesn’t do anything to make the… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – The Art of the Pass”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Alderac, Concordia, Cranio Creations, Czech Games Edition, Devir, Fryx Games, Garphill Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Into the Machine, Inventors of the South Tigris, Lookout Games, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Rio Grande Games, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Tapestry, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: the Dice Game, The White Castle, Wayfarers of the South Tigris
Posted on September 2, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re halfway through the 4000s in our weekly look at games on the Boardgame Geek top games list, and things are looking up again. Slightly. Last week, I had only played two of the games in that century and I was beginning to despair… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4401 – 4500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, AllPlay, Andreas Odendahl, Area Control, Arkham Horror: Final Hour, Battalion Combat Series, Bezier Games, Bill Eberle, Card Games, Carlo A Rossi, Christopher Wray, Cooperative Games, Cosmic Encounter Duel, Dean Essig, Dice Drafting, El Burro, Fantasy Flight Games, Francisco Gradaille, Frank Brooks, Game Makers, GMT Games, Greg Olotka, Ignacy Trzewiczek, La Granja, Lane Battler, Last Blitzkrieg, Levy & Campaign Series, Lunch Time Games, Michael Keller, Multi-Man Publishing, Neuroshima Convoy, Oops You Did It Again, Paul Peterson, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, Pollen, Portal Games, Reiner Knizia, Smash Up, Spielworxx, Stonemaier Games, Todd Michlitsch, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket
Posted on August 12, 2026
by whovian223
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Another week and another look at the Boardgame Geek boardgame rankings! This time we’re moving further into the 4000s, and this is where you start finding the niche games that are really good, but not that many people know about them or play them.… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4101 – 4200”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Action Selection, AllPlay, Avalon Hill, Bezier Games, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cooperative Games, Dune: A Game of Conquest and Diplomacy, Gale Force 9, Game Makers, GMT Games, Gravwell 2nd Edition, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Level 10, Lunch Time Games, Matagot, Okey Dokey, Rebuilding Chicago, Rebuilding Seattle, Renegade Games Studios, Russian Front, Seers Catalog, Stonemaier Games, The Last Hundred Yards, Tile-Laying Games, Torchlit, Trick-taking games, War & Peace, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket, Wizkids
Posted on May 21, 2026
by whovian223
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Wasn’t planning a post today, but saw some digital gaming news that excited me, so I thought I’d send a quick note out. Monster Couch announced today that the Wingspan adjacent game, Wyrmspan, will be coming to Steam digital soon (and hopefully other platforms… Continue Reading “Wyrmspan Coming to Digital – Soon”
Posted on April 16, 2026
by whovian223
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This is very late, and I am very sorry. Usually I have written my “New to Me Games” post by the end of the first week of the month. But March was such a cornucopia of new games that I just couldn’t do it!… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Anthony Giovannetti, Bruce Glassco, Card Games, Casey Yano, Contention Games, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Cover Your Cookies, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Emanuele Santellani, Expeditions, Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends, Gary Dworetsky, Grandpa Beck's, James Ernest, Jamey Stegmaier, Jeffrey Beck, Leonardo Alese, Light Speed: Arena, Lunch Time Games, Real-Time Games, Rogue-like, Set Collection Games, Slay the Spire: The Board Game, Speakeasy, Stonemaier Games, Tablescope, Tom Jolly, Vital Lacerda, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games
Posted on March 5, 2026
by whovian223
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Rob Bottos is a great guy. Not only is he kind and really interesting to talk to, but he also looks after his fellow gamers. He’s run the regular Bottoscon in New Westminster since 2007 (with one year’s break due to COVID) and it’s… Continue Reading “Bottoscon Winter 2026 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Area Control, Bottoscon Winter, Can't Stop, Card Games, CMYK, Combat Commander: Europe/Med Master Edition, Cooperative Games, Cover Your Kingdom, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Earth, Eldritch Horror, Expeditions, Fantasy Flight Games, Fliptoons, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Hand Management, How I Roll - Youtube, Inside Up Games, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Rio Grande Games, Roll and Move, Roll for the Galaxy, Sea Salt & Paper, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Take-That games, The Gang, Thunderworks Games, Wargames
Posted on March 3, 2026
by whovian223
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I thought February was going to be a big month for games, with two days of a convention at the end of the month of on top of our normal gaming. Sadly, me getting sick for over a week eliminated one Sunday along with… Continue Reading “February 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, BG Stats, Cape May, Card Games, Combat Commander: Europe/Med Master Edition, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Earth, Eldritch Horror, Fantasy Flight Games, Fort, GMT Games, Inside Up Games, Leder Games, Rio Grande Games, Roll for the Galaxy, SETI, SETI: Space Agencies, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Thunderworks Games, Tokaido