Posted on May 16, 2025
by whovian223
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Has it been five weeks yet? No, it hasn’t! Welcome back to the bar, only a week later. You must have seen the lights on in the window, or maybe the fire that’s in the corner. We should probably put that out. Anyway, it’s… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – How Important is Art?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Ascension, Charioteer, Circadians: First Light, CMYK, Fryx Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Quacks, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: the Dice Game
Posted on March 22, 2024
by whovian223
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Welcome to another end-of-week social gathering where it’s just you and me! I’d say I’m enough to make it social. Wouldn’t you? Well, anyway, hop on a seat at the bar and let’s chat! I do have to say first, though, that you are… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Player Aids”
Posted on November 14, 2023
by whovian223
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This post has been a long time coming, mainly due to exhaustion on my part. A four-day con is a long con, especially when you are playing a lot of longer games. All of that would be fine, except then I started work on… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Ark Nova, Bottoscon, Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, Codenames: Deep Undercover, Dominant Species, Flash Point, Hellapagos, Here I Stand, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Merchant of Venus, Saboteur: the Dark Cave, Starship Captains, TEN, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: the Dice Game
Posted on October 3, 2023
by whovian223
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September was a fairly lean month for gaming, especially new to me games. I’ve already talked about my September gaming in general, so how about the monthly chat about “new to me” games? I’m actually quite proud of the fact that this is my… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Brad Johnson, Card Games, David Thompson, Dice-rolling, Fryx Games, GMT Games, Jacob Fryxelius, Lunch Time Games, Resist!, Roger Tankersley, Salt & Pepper Games, Solo Games, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars: the Dice Game, The Barracks Emperors, Trevor Benjamin, Trick-taking games, Wray Ferrell
Posted on December 10, 2019
by whovian223
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Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a huge Terraforming Mars fan. I’ve played that game almost 20 times now and it’s still just as fun as when I started playing it…ok, actually since the second time (my first time almost drove me… Continue Reading “Terraforming Mars – the Dice Game?”