Posted on October 1, 2026
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My September gaming wasn’t quite as huge as August, but it was still pretty good. For a while there, I thought my “new to me” games would amount to one, but then Abi showed up for a couple of Sundays and I was then… Continue Reading “September 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: 2-Player Games, Action Points, Action Selection, Alderac, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Card Games, Combat Commander, Czech Games Edition, Drafting Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Fliptoons, Galaxy Trucker, GMT Games, Into the Machine, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Real-Time Games, Scorpion Masqué, Suburbia, Tag Team, The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on March 7, 2025
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(See comments below for an even better example that I should have remembered! But I haven’t played it in ages so it was completely off my radar) Welcome to another Friday Night Shots! This is almost becoming a monthly thing rather than a weekly… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Expansions to be Never Played Again”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Alderac, Bezier Games, Expansions, Mandoo Games, Space Base, Space Base: The Emergence of Shy Pluto, Space Base: The Mysteries of Terra Proxima, Suburbia, Suburbia - 5*, Vale of Eternity, Vale of Eternity - Artifacts
Posted on February 26, 2021
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A nice surprise in my email a couple of days ago came from Bezier Games. After over a year of having just the Kickstarter “Collector’s Edition”, Bezier Games has now announced that a 2nd Edition of its classic game, Suburbia will be coming to… Continue Reading “Suburbia 2nd Edition coming from Bezier Games in March”
Posted on November 12, 2020
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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 January 22, 2019
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It’s been almost three years in the making, but I almost hit 300 games played since I started recording plays and I thought it would be a great idea to give you what my top 25 games played are. Thanks to Pub Meeple for… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time (25-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andreas Steding, Bezier Games, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Diamonds, Gugong, Merchant of Venus, Mike Fitzgerald, Pick Up & Deliver, Ravensburger, Richard Hamblen, Stefan Feld, Stronghold Games, Suburbia, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Ted Alspach, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 14, 2019
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Last week, I announced (along with probably every boardgame news and blog outlet out there, but I like to think I broke the story) (Editor – Indulge him. It can only help) that the Suburbia – Collector’s Edition was coming to Kickstarter. Today’s the day! The Collector’s Edition,… Continue Reading “Suburbia – Collector’s Edition Now Live on Kickstarter”
Posted on January 7, 2019
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Suburbia was one of my first board game purchases when I came back to the hobby many years ago. It’s still one of my favourite games. Designed by Ted Alspach, this is a tile-laying game where each player is trying to build the most… Continue Reading “Suburbia Collectors Edition Coming to Kickstarter on January 14”
Posted on February 6, 2018
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Ted Alspach is one of my favourite game designers out there. His first design that I fell in love with was Suburbia, with it’s interesting tile-laying mechanic where you have to attention to what others are building in their suburb as well. Little did I… Continue Reading “Q & A – Ted Alspach”