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
Posted on January 3, 2026
by whovian223
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Two years goes by so fast. Hell, even a month goes by so fast, as I remember looking forward to all of the holiday fun and time off in December, and now it’s January and where did the time go? However, it has been… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#50-41)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Arcs, Card Games, Cole Wehrle, Contracts, Daily Magic Games, Daniel Bullock, David Gordon, Deep Water Games, Dice Placement, Drafting Games, Elizabeth Hargrave, Fantastic Factories, Finspan, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Guild Academies of Valeria, In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943-44, Inventors of the South Tigris, Jo Kelly, Joe Schmidt, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Michael O'Connell, Molly House, PubMeeple, Roll and Move, Root, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stan Kordonskiy, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Trick-taking games, Wehrlegig Games, Wingspan
Posted on December 10, 2025
by whovian223
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I knew that November was going to be huge for New to Me games, but I didn’t realize just how huge! Between a convention (which, surprisingly enough, I didn’t play many new to me games at until the day Abi showed up) and multiple… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, AllPlay, Area Control, Assyria 2nd Edition, Auto-battler, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card Shedding, Catch Up Games, CMYK, Courtisans, Dan Schumacher, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eerie Idol Games, Emanuele Ornella, Fromage, Garphill Games, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jamey Stegmaier, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Masato Uesugi, Mathias Wigge, Oddland, Origin Story, Pablo Clark, Pete Wissinger, Reiner Knizia, Richard Garfield, Road to Infamy Games, Roll and Move, Sanctuary, Scorpion Masqué, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stonemaier Games, Tag Team, Takashi Ishida, The Old King's Crown, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda
Posted on November 11, 2025
by whovian223
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This past weekend was the 19th annual Bottoscon convention at the Inn at the Quay in New Westminster, Canada. We’re almost at 20! The con is run by Rob Bottos, a great guy who has taken to heart what many of us Canadians have… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2025 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, AllPlay, Aporta Games, Artipia Games, Bad Company, Bottoscon, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cascadia, CMON, CMYK, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Devir, Diamonds, Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Flatout Games, Galactic Cruise, Gizmos, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jackie Fox, Kinson Key Games, Kosmos, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Oddland, Origin Story, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, Roll and Move, Schadenfreude, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Pepper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, The Gang, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games