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Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #210-201
Posted on September 27, 2021 by whovian223
Can it really be? Yes, this is the last post in the BGG Top 300 series, first begun back in February. It’s been a long, hard year with COVID being alternately defeated and then making a rebound and forcing people to still try and… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #210-201”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, 2-Player Games, Auction Games, Bora Bora, Card-Driven Game, Cédrick Chaboussit, Christian Leonard, Czech Games Edition, Darwin Kastle, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Dungeon Petz, Economic Games, EmperorS4, Fantasy Flight Games, Friedemann Friese, GMT Games, Hanamikoji, Hero Realms, Imperial, Jason Matthews, Kota Nakayama, Lewis & Clark: the Expedition, Libellud, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, Mac Gerdts, Power Grid Deluxe, Ravensburger, Régis Bonnessée, Reiner Knizia, Rio Grande Games, Robert Dougherty, Samurai, Seasons, Stefan Feld, Tile-Laying Games, Vlaada Chvátil, Wise Wizard Games
Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #220-211
Posted on September 22, 2021 by whovian223
We’re heading into the home stretch with our look at the Top 300 games on Boardgame Geek. I may even finish before October! Wouldn’t that be a hoot? I’ve actually really enjoyed doing this list, even as I stated last week that it just… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #220-211”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Kwapiński, Age of Empires III: Discovery, Alderac, Area Control, Area Movement, Auction Games, Awaken Realms, Blue Orange Games, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Civilization Building, CMON, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Dixit: Odyssey, Fantasy Flight Games, Frank Brooks, Fury of Dracula, Glenn Drover, Hand Management, Hidden Movement, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Imperial Settlers, Jean-Louis Roubira, John D Clair, Kevin Wilson, Kingdomino, Libellud, Lords of Hellas, Lunch Time Games, Modern Art, Portal Games, Pulsar 2849, Reiner Knizia, Space Alert, Space Base, Stephen Hand, Tile-Laying Games, Tropical Games, Vlaada Chvátil, Vladimír Suchý
Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #240 – 231
Posted on September 6, 2021 by whovian223
Three weeks. Yes, that’s three weeks. Three weeks in a row where I’ve done an entry for the Top 300 games on BGG! Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? I know, right? I don’t believe it either! Anyway, this is the… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #240 – 231”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Points, Antiquity, Area Control, BattleLore 2nd Edition, Burgle Bros, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Contracts, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Dominion: 2nd Edition, Donald X. Vaccarino, Fantasy Flight Games, Fowers Games, Grid Movement, Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage, Imperial 2030, Jamey Stegmaier, Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga, Luke Laurie, Mac Gerdts, Marc Neidlinger, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Mark Simonitch, Minion Games, Orange Nebula, Point to Point Movement, Richard Borg, Rio Grande Games, Robert A Kouba, Rondel Games, Simone Luciani, Splotter Spellen, Stonemaier Games, Tapestry, The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, Tile-Laying Games, Tim Fowers, Tom Jolly, Valley Games, Vindication, Wargames, Z-Man Games
Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #250 – 241
Posted on August 30, 2021 by whovian223
What? Two editions of this list in two weeks? Could Dave be back? I wouldn’t count on it, but this is a welcome thing to see! My editor is very happy (Editor: Yeah, so happy I could almost not speak in a monotone) It’s… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #250 – 241”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Above and Below, Abstract Games, Action Points, Arcane Wonders, Area Control, Benjamin Pope, Bryan Pope, Card Drafting, Century: Spice Road, City Building, CMON, Concordia Venus, Cthulhu Wars, David Thompson, Deckbuilders, Emerson Matsuuchi, Ethnos, Gen42 Games, Grid Movement, Hand Management, Herve Lemaitre, Hive, John Yianni, Kolossal Games, Lincoln Petersen, Lunch Time Games, Mac Gerdts, Mage Wars Arena, Onitama, Osprey Games, Paolo Mori, Petersen Games, Plan B Games, Red Raven Games, Rio Grande Games, Ryan Laukat, Sandbox games, Sandy Petersen, Set Collection Games, Shimpei Sato, Tile-Laying Games, Trevor Benjamin, Undaunted: Normandy, Wargames, Western Legends
Founders of Teotihuacan Coming from Board & Dice in May 2022
Posted on August 24, 2021 by whovian223
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”
Category: Board Games, NewsTags: Board & Dice, Filip Głowacz, Founders of Teotihuacan, Lunch Time Games, Teotihuacan, Tile-Laying Games
Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #270-261
Posted on June 14, 2021 by whovian223
I know it’s been a while (my last post was May 28), but here were finally are with another entry in the COVID-long series of posts about games on Boardgame Geek and whether or not I’ve played them. Thankfully, it looks like the main… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #270-261”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Points, Andreas Schmidt, Area Movement, Bag Building, Christian Marcussen, Corey Konieczka, Dice-rolling, Don Eskridge, Eggertspiele, Fantasy Flight Games, Gabriele Mari, Gamelyn Games, Gianluca Santopietro, Glass Road, Heaven & Ale, Indie Boards & Cards, Kasper Aagaard, KLASK, Letters From Whitechapel, Lunch Time Games, Merchants & Marauders, Michael Kiesling, Mikkel Bertelsen, Northstar Games, Pick Up & Deliver, Rondel Games, Scott Almes, Social Deduction Games, Star Wars: Outer Rim, The Resistance, The Taverns of Tiefenthal, Tikal, Tile-Laying Games, Tiny Epic Galaxies, Tony Fanchi, Uwe Rosenberg, Wolfgang Kramer, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #280 – 271
Posted on April 22, 2021 by whovian223
Wow, it’s been over a month since the last edition of the Top 300 boardgames on Boardgame Geek. I think that’s a bad sign. Is it a bad sign? Is it because of the funk I’ve been in over the last month or so?… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #280 – 271”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Abstract Games, Acquire, Agricola: All Creatures Big & Small, Alderac, Antoine Bauza, Avalon Hill, Bruno Cathala, Bruno Faidutti, Christian T. Petersen, Cooperative Games, Cryptid, David Thompson, Deduction, Dixit, Economic Games, Ed Beach, Fantasy Flight Games, Ghost Stories, GMT Games, Hal Duncan, Here I Stand, James Kniffen, Jean-Louis Roubira, Libellud, Lunch Time Games, Matagot, Miniatures, Mission: Red Planet - 2nd Edition, Osprey Games, Repos Games, Ruth Veevers, Sid Sackson, Star Wars: Armada, Takenoko, Tile-Laying Games, Trevor Benjamin, Uwe Rosenberg, War Chest, Wargames, Z-Man Games
Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #290-281
Posted on March 19, 2021 by whovian223
I such a timely guy, aren’t I? The first post in this series came out what seems like months ago (it was over a month ago, on February 15). What’s taken so long for the second post? Would you believe I fell asleep? All… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #290-281”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alderac, Altiplano, Andrew Wolf, Area Control, Auction Games, Bag Building, Barenpark, Bill Eberle, Card Games, Deckbuilders, Die Macher, Dmitry Knorre, Dominic Crapuchettes, Dune, Evolution: Climate, Forrest-Pruzan Creative, Gale Force 9, Hand Management, Hans im Gluck, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, Jack Kittredge, Julian Courtland-Smith, Kami Mandell, Karl-Heinz Schmiel, Lookout Games, Love Letter, Lunch Time Games, Michal Oracz, Neuroshima Hex 3.0, North Star Games, Notre Dame, Peter Olotka, Phil Walker-Harding, Portal Games, Push Your Luck Games, Ravensburger, Reiner Stockhausen, Renegade Games Studios, Seiji Kanai, Sergey Machin, Stefan Feld, Stronghold Games, Survive: Escape from Atlantis, The Op, Tile-Laying Games
Suburbia 2nd Edition coming from Bezier Games in March
Posted on February 26, 2021 by whovian223
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”
Category: Board Games, NewsTags: Bezier Games, Suburbia, Suburbia - 2nd Edition, Ted Alspach, Tile-Laying Games
Top 5 Games Played in 2020
Posted on December 28, 2020 by whovian223
Most years, I get to play at least 100 unique games, based on conventions and my Sunday game days. Sadly, due to COVID, that didn’t happen in 2020. My wife willingly played a bunch of games with me during our lockdown, so the fact… Continue Reading “Top 5 Games Played in 2020”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Architects of the West Kingdom, Capstone Games, Card-Driven Game, Clank in Space, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Fryx Games, Garphill Games, Jacob Fryxelius, Matthias Cramer, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Big Box, Tile-Laying Games, Watergate, Worker Placement Games
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