Tag: Tile-Laying Games
Posted on March 20, 2025
by whovian223
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Last weekend was the 10th (maybe 11th?) annual Terminal City Tabletop Convention (though I guess it was interrupted by COVID so not actually 11?). I have to say it was probably the best yet. In previous years, the people running it didn’t do the… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2025”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Auction Games, Bombyx, Brotherwise Games, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Catch Up Games, CMYK, Cooperative Games, CuBirds, Czech Games Edition, Deduction, Dice Placement, Empire's End, Fantastic Factories, Faraway, Finspan, Firestarter Games, Fives, Garphill Games, Huch & Friends, Kosmos, Living Forest, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, Metafactory Games, Mighty Boards, Multi-use cards, Oink Games, Orapa Mine, Pandasaurus Games, Playte, Push Your Luck Games, Rajas of the Ganges: Cards & Karma, Rebirth, Reforest, Repos Games, Resource Management, Scholars of the South Tigris, SCOUT, Sea Salt & Paper, Secrets, Set Collection Games, SETI, Social Deduction Games, Stonemaier Games, The Gang, Tile-Laying Games, Toy Battle, Trick-taking games
Posted on February 28, 2025
by whovian223
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February wasn’t a great month for me overall, in terms of posting (or mental health, really). But it was a great month for games! Missing the first Sunday of the month due to weather, and then only one game on Super Bowl Sunday, I… Continue Reading “February 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Ark Nova, BG Stats, Boardgame Arena, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Devir, Dice Drafting, Harmonies, Libellud, Mandoo Games, The White Castle, Tile-Laying Games, Vale of Eternity, Vale of Eternity - Artifacts
Posted on February 3, 2025
by whovian223
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Another year and another month of new to me games. It’s 2025 now and things are still going strong on the new to me front, with four whole new ones this last month! No first impressions posts this time, though, so I’ll be talking… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Akropolis, Arcs, Area Majority, Card Drafting, Card Games, Castle Combo, Catch Up Games, Cole Wehrle, Gigamic, Grégory Grard, Jules Messaud, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Mathieu Roussel, Mob Plus, Panda Panda, Set Collection Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, 宮野 華也 (Kaya Miyano)
Posted on January 8, 2025
by whovian223
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I’ve been writing this blog for almost 8 years now, doing a monthly “new to me” post for just as long (it started in April 2017, but it was about March’s games!), and I often do “best games played” of the year if I’m… Continue Reading “Top 10 New to Me Games of 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to Me, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Alderac, Alexander Pfister, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Civolution, Contracts, Corentin Lebrat, Delicious Games, Devir, Dice Placement, Eggertspiele, Eric Hong, Faraway, Forest Shuffle, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Harmonies, Jackie Fox, Johan Benvenuto, Johannes Goupy, Josh Wood, Kosch, Let's Go to Japan, Libellud, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Pegasus Spiele, Pirates of Maracaibo, Racing Game, Ralph Bienert, Rock Hard 1977, Rondel Games, Ryan Hendrickson, Shipyard (2nd Edition), Stefan Feld, Tableau-building, Tile-Laying Games, Vale of Eternity, Vladimír Suchý, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 6, 2024
by whovian223
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At last, almost a week late, one of the probably longest posts I’ve written, because there are so many freakin’ games on it! Yes, this is the list of the eleven (!) new to me games I played in November 2024. December is not… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 11 Nimmt!, Alexander Pfister, Amigo Spiel, Azul: Queen's Garden, Bang: the Dice Game, Ben Rosset, Bezier Games, Brew Crafters, Daniel Byrne, Deckbuilders, Dice Hate Me Games, Dice-rolling, Economic Games, Eggertspiele, Gamewright Games, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Hidden Roles, Jonathan Cox, José Gerardo Guerrero, Kevin Peláez, Little Dog Games, Lukas Zach, Lunch Time Games, MESA Boardgames, Michael Kiesling, Michael Palm, Modiphius Entertainment, Next Move Games, Panamax, Push Your Luck Games, Qwixx, Rebel Princess, Rondel Games, Spring Cleaning, Star Trek: Lower Decks - Buffer Time: The Card Game, Steffen Benndorf, Tile-Laying Games, Tirso Virgós, Trick-taking games, Wolfgang Kramer
Posted on November 15, 2024
by whovian223
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Once again in November I was able to attend Bottoscon, the largest wargaming convention in the Pacific Northwest. This year, they managed to get over 150 attendees, which is amazing considering that when they began 18 years ago, they had 32 attendees. The convention… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2024 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 11 Nimmt!, 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Avalon Hill, Azul: Queen's Garden, Bang: the Dice Game, Bottoscon, Brew Crafters, Can't Stop, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cover Your A$$ets, Devir, Dice Hate Me Games, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, DV Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Economic Games, Ecos: First Continent, Fantastic Factories, Fryx Games, Gamewright Games, Grandpa Beck's, Let's Go to Japan, Lunch Time Games, Merchant of Venus, MESA Boardgames, Metafactory Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Next Move Games, Oink Games, Panamax, Pick Up & Deliver, Push Your Luck Games, Qwixx, Rio Grande Games, Rock Hard 1977, Roll for the Galaxy, Schadenfreude, SCOUT, Star Trek: Lower Decks - Buffer Time: The Card Game, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Take-That games, Terraforming Mars, The White Castle, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on November 1, 2024
by whovian223
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October was a really bad month. Not just for gaming, but in general as well. I was sick for a week and I’m still not feeling 100% even a week later after I went back to work. But for gaming, it really sucked! There… Continue Reading “October 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Azul, Cascadia, Drafting Games, Flatout Games, Formal Ferret Games, Gil Hova, Plan B Games, The Networks, The Networks: the Executives, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on October 7, 2024
by whovian223
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This post has been a bit delayed, for reasons. Some of those reasons were me killing a whole bunch of Greek soldiers in Ancient Egypt in Assassin’s Creed: Origins, which is super-addicting right now. The game, not the killing. I’m fighting for Cleopatra! Or… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2024”
Category: Board GamesTags: Arcane Wonders, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Christopher Wray, Comic Hunters, Dice Placement, Emerson Matsuuchi, Foundations of Metropolis, Garphill Games, HUCH Games, Inventors of the South Tigris, Keyflower, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Breese, Robert Coelho, Set Collection Games, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Spin Master Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games, Xylotar
Posted on July 2, 2024
by whovian223
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May was a really boring month for new to me games, so much so that I was wondering how I could correct that for June. How about seven? No, that’s no my winning lotto number, though it should be. That’s how many new games… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Andreas "Ode" Odendahl, Andrew Meyer, Bitewing Games, Card Games, Cascadero, Delicious Games, Doomlings, Doomlings LLC, Ezra & Nehemiah, Garphill Games, Hand Management, Harmonies, Johan Benvenuto, Justus Meyer, La Granja, Libellud, Lunch Time Games, Michael Keller, Reiner Knizia, Route-building, Shem Phillips, Shipyard (2nd Edition), SJ MacDonald, Spielworxx, Stronghold Games, Tile-Laying Games, Vladimír Suchý
Posted on June 16, 2024
by whovian223
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Welcome to the first in a periodic series of posts where I give my first impressions on a game that I don’t think I’m going to end up playing enough to actually write a review for it. I broached this subject in a previous… Continue Reading “First Impressions – Harmonies”
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