Tag: Tile-Laying Games
Posted on November 14, 2025
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There was a farmer had a dog and Ecos was his name-o. E..C..O..S….Uh, Mr. Clair? We need another letter please? Thank you. Why do I reference this old children’s song? Are you a fan of Bingo but think you need something a bit more… Continue Reading “Creating a World From Scratch – Ecos: First Continent Review”
Posted on November 11, 2025
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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
Posted on September 1, 2025
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It’s nice when a month of gaming comes together in unexpected ways is better than you expected it to be. I was surprised by July’s gaming numbers, considering I was off. August came around and I was going to be missing one Sunday due… Continue Reading “August 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Card Games, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Combat Commander, Cooperative Games, Days of Wonder, Five Tribes, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Kosmos, Mancala games, Stonemaier Games, The Gang, Tides of Trade, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Wingspan
Posted on August 3, 2025
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It’s funny, but no matter how bad a month might be as far as playing games, I usually get a decent number of “new to me” games played. I thought July would be slow, but it ended up being pretty normal. I also thought,… Continue Reading “New to Me – July 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Arcane Wonders, Betting, Blue Panther Games, Card-Driven Game, CMYK, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Eggertspiele, Era: Medieval Age, Eric Olsen, Flip 7, Hot Streak, Jon Perry, Land and Freedom, Matt Leacock, Polyomino Games, The Op, Tile-Laying Games, World Wonders, Zé Mendes
Posted on August 1, 2025
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Being off for almost the entire month of July, I wasn’t expecting much on the gaming front. However, I managed to attended a Wednesday night meet-up a couple of times, which greatly helped take the place of our normal lunchtime games at work, at… Continue Reading “July 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: 2-Player Games, Arcane Wonders, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Card Games, Card Shedding, Combat Commander, Contracts, Cosmodrome Games, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Favor of the Pharaoh, GMT Games, Little Dog Games, Lookout Games, NEOM, Push Your Luck Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Smartphone Inc, Spring Cleaning, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames
Posted on June 12, 2025
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Having lived in the Pacific Northwest for over 25 years, I can definitely say that it’s one of the most beautiful areas on Earth, both on the US side and the Canadian side of the border. Cascadia brought that to life with beautiful tiles,… Continue Reading “Seeing the Northwest Sights – Cascadia: Landmarks Expansion Review”
Category: Board Games, ReviewTags: Alderac, Cascadia, Cascadia - Landmarks, Expansions, Flatout Games, Lunch Time Games, Molly Johnson, Randy Flynn, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on June 2, 2025
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May was a very good month for new to me games. I got one of my new games to the table, played a couple that I’ve been dying to play for a while now, and was introduced to a few that I didn’t even… Continue Reading “New to Me – May 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Cocktail Games, Cole Wehrle, Deckbuilders, Devir, Dire Wolf Digital, Drafting Games, Dune Imperium: Uprising, Ferran Renalias, Fishing, Friedemann Friese, Gerard Ascensi, Ion Game Design, Jo Kelly, Lacrimosa, Middle Ages, Molly House, Nana, Oliver Kiley, Paul Dennen, Pax Illuminaten, Rio Grande Games, Set Collection Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Trio, Wehrlegig Games, Worker Placement Games, 宮野 華也 (Kaya Miyano)
Posted on May 14, 2025
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(this is going to be a review of both the game and the app, since I’ve played the tabletop game a bunch too) There’s something peaceful about a good tile-laying game where everybody is creating their own habitat for God’s natural wonders, both flora… Continue Reading “The Beauty of Northwest Tiles – Cascadia App Review”
Posted on May 2, 2025
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While April wasn’t a really full month of games, it was surprisingly full of new to me games! Six new to me games out of the fourteen I played is actually a really good ratio. I love it when months come together like that.… Continue Reading “New to Me – April 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, AllPlay, amuele Tabellini Ferrari, Botanicus, Bus, Corné van Moorsel, Cwali, Daniel Bullock, David Spalinski, Deckbuilders, Donald X. Vaccarino, GMT Games, Habitats, Hans im Gluck, In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943-44, Jeroen Doumen, Joe Schmidt, Joris Wiersinga, Little Dog Games, Lunch Time Games, Moon Colony Bloodbath, Rio Grande Games, Route-building, Splotter Spellen, Tile-Laying Games, Torchlit, Trick-taking games, Vieri Masseini
Posted on May 1, 2025
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As expected after last month’s post, where March had a huge number of games because of a convention, April came back down to earth with a much fewer amount of games. However, it was much better than February! Which means it was a good… Continue Reading “April 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Bezier Games, Combat Commander, Contracts, Delicious Games, Faraway, Faraway: People From Below, GMT Games, Kosmos, Lost Cities, Lunch Time Games, Minigolf Designer, Pandasaurus Games, Rebel Princess Deluxe, Resafa, Rio Grande Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games
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