Posted on October 1, 2024
by whovian223
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September was a weird month for gaming, mainly because we didn’t play a lot at work because various people were away (or we just were so exhausted due to work stuff that we just wanted to hibernate at lunch). Thus, most (but not all)… Continue Reading “September 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Auction Games, BG Stats, Board & Dice, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Combat Commander: Pacific, Devir, Doomlings, Doomlings LLC, Faraway, GMT Games, Jackie Fox, Lunch Time Games, Renegade Games Studios, Rock Hard 1977, Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan: Expansion Period, Vale of Eternity, Vegas Showdown, Worker Placement Games
Posted on June 28, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s vacation time! Today was my last day of work for 4 weeks, and wow has this been needed. I’m hoping that my blog output will increase a bit this month as I have more mental capacity to actually write. But we’ll see what… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Modular Expansions & Stories”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Alderac, Alexander Pfister, John D Clair, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Oh My Goods, Oh My Goods - Escape to Canyon Brook, Oh My Goods - Longsdale in Revolt, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria - Riftlands, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria - Rise of Titans, Space Base, Space Base: Biodome, Space Base: Dreadnaughts, Space Base: The Emergence of Shy Pluto, Space Base: The Mysteries of Terra Proxima, Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan: Expansion Period, Teotihuacan: Late Preclassic Period, Teotihuacan: Shadow of Xitle
Posted on January 14, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s only been two years, but it’s that time again! The 2022 edition of my “Top Games Played of All Time” was predicated on my having played just over 400 games. As of the end of 2023, I had played 534 games in total.… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#50-41)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Abstract Games, Action Selection, Alderac, Andreas Schmidt, Blood Bowl Team Manager, Board & Dice, Cape May, Chad Jensen, Charlie Bink, Cranio Creations, Daniele Tascini, David Thompson, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dominant Species, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, Engine-building, Fantasy Flight Games, Flaminia Brasini, GMT Games, Heaven & Ale, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Lunch Time Games, Michael Kiesling, On Mars, Paul Dennen, Set Collection Games, Simone Luciani, Teotihuacan, Thunderworks Games, Trekking Through History, Trevor Benjamin, Underdog Games, Virginio Gigli, Vital Lacerda, War Chest, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on June 9, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s Friday. A long week is finished and it’s time to sit back, relax, have some good food and a drink of some kind (whatever kind you like). There’s plenty of soft music in the background too. This isn’t so much of an issue… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Expansions: Yea or Nay?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Architects of the West Kingdom, Architects of the West Kingdom: Age of the Artisans, Combat Commander, Expansions, Fire in the Lake: Sovereign of Discord, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Teotihuacan, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Discovery, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Foundations, The Last Hundred Yards, The Last Hundred Yards Volume IV: The Russian Front, Viticulture, Viticulture: Tuscany, Wayfarers of the South Tigris
Posted on January 25, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit 4/18/23) – and it’s now live! Go here to back it in whatever fashion you want. Received the exciting news from Board & Dice this morning that one of their great games, Teotihuacan, is getting the Deluxe treatment in April. In addition to… Continue Reading “Teotihuacan Deluxe Coming to Kickstarter in April”
Posted on January 17, 2022
by whovian223
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It’s that time again! Yes, it’s another installment of my Top 25 Games Played of All Time – 2022 edition, all because I’ve now played over 400 games. The last edition was 3 years ago, so there are a bunch of new games in… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time – 2022 Edition (20-16)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Asymmetric Games, Blood Bowl Team Manager, Board & Dice, Cole Wehrle, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Deep Water Games, Dice Placement, Dice Tower West, Dragonflight, Fantastic Factories, Fantasy Flight Games, Jason Little, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Keith Matejka, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, OrcaCon, Roll Player, Root, Tableau-building, Teotihuacan
Posted on August 24, 2021
by whovian223
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Sometimes it pays to be on email lists. And sometimes it doesn’t (I’m looking at you, you US Special Forces operative who keeps promising me a fortune in stolen loot but never answers my email responses!). But this time it did! Today’s Inbox contained… Continue Reading “Founders of Teotihuacan Coming from Board & Dice in May 2022”
Posted on June 3, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s week 4 of my weekly look at the Boardgame Geek Top 100 games to see how many I’ve played and how many I even want to play. It’s a rather blah week, for a lot of reasons, but also just because there aren’t… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 70-61”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Adam Carlson, Alexander Pfister, Area Control, Bluffing, Board & Dice, Card Drafting, Chip Theory Games, CMON, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Crokinole, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dexterity Games, Dice-rolling, Dominion, Dominion: Intrigue, Donald X. Vaccarino, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, El Grande, Eldritch Horror, Eric Lang, Fantasy Flight Games, Josh J. Carlson, Lisboa, Miniatures, Mombasa, Nikki Valens, Richard Ulrich, Rio Grande Games, Rising Sun, Rondel Games, Teotihuacan, Too Many Bones, Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition, Vital Lacerda, Wolfgang Kramer, Worker Placement Games
Posted on April 2, 2020
by whovian223
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We’re all still enjoying enduring all of this self-isolation. For that reason, a lot of my blog hits have been on apps, mobile, and online gaming. Yet there are still lots of great boardgame-specific things going on, and here’s another post about one of… Continue Reading “Tekhenu – New Picture!”
Posted on December 31, 2019
by whovian223
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It’s a New Year’s Eve miracle! I wasn’t going to post anything else this week (other than Monday’s review and the December “New to Me” post) when I received this lovely email from Board & Dice announcing the 2020 release from designer Daniele Tascini… Continue Reading “Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun from Board & Dice”
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