A Gaming Life
Posted on January 21, 2024 by whovian223
Two weeks and two entries into this list. Maybe I’ll be able to actually do this weekly, unlike in 2022! It was interesting doing a Top 50 rather than a Top 25. Some games have fallen enough that they wouldn’t even be listed if… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#40-31)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Alderac, Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, Block Wargames, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Contracts, Cosmodrome Games, Daily Magic Games, Darwin's Journey, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Economic Games, Eilif Svensson, Formal Ferret Games, Garphill Games, Gil Hova, GMT Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Helge Meissner, Ivan Lashin, John D Clair, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Nestore Mangone, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Ravensburger, Renegade Games Studios, Revive, Richard Borg, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Smartphone Inc, Space Base, Stan Kordonskiy, Stefan Feld, The Networks, Thundergryph Games, Tile-Laying Games, Virginio Gigli, Wargames
Posted on November 10, 2023 by whovian223
Hey there! It’s been a while, I know. It seems like you were just in here last week! Take a seat at the bar and take a load off. I’ll get you anything you want. Let me turn down the jukebox. Who put MC… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Update & Upcoming Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Brotherwise Games, Contracts, Daily Magic Games, Empire's End, GMT Games, Guild Academies of Valeria, John D Clair, Mike Denson, No Thanks, Paul Hellyer, Prime Minister, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria - Riftlands, Stan Kordonskiy, The Last Hundred Yards Volume IV: The Russian Front, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames
Posted on October 31, 2023 by whovian223
October was a great month for new to me games! That’s been a bit unusual lately, so I’m glad that this is back on the upswing. Of course, with every improvement there comes a downside. I played 5 new to me games in October,… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Amalfi: Renaissance, Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, Barcelona, Bitewing Games, Board & Dice, Dani Garcia, GMT Games, Jason Matthews, Lunch Time Games, Negotiation Games, Phil Walker-Harding, Reiner Knizia, Resource Management, Space Cowboys, Spellbook, Sylex, Takeo Yamada, Tile-Laying Games, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Wargames, Zoo Vadis
Posted on October 20, 2023 by whovian223
It’s Friday again! Weekends are awesome, aren’t they? But I’m pleased that you spend your Friday night (or Saturday morning, maybe?) hanging out with me, having a drink or two (we do have water or pop!) and just commiserating about board games. We’ll just… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Polyomino Games”
Posted on October 13, 2023 by whovian223
Hey there! It’s the weekend again, and I really appreciate you stopping by every week just to chat board games. Or to chat about anything, really. Actually, that’s not totally true, but it is nice to see you! Let me pour you a drink… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Liking Low-Rated Games”
Posted on August 31, 2023 by whovian223
Dragonflight was my first convention ever, back in 2015 (I think). It’s held at the same hotel in Bellevue, Washington, as OrcaCon is held (though the hotel rooms are a lot more expensive, being in the Summer instead of January like OrcaCon). Thus, it… Continue Reading “Dragonflight 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Archaeology - The New Expedition, Area Control, Artana Games, Capstone Games, Card Games, Cascadia, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dice Placement, Dokmus, Dr. Finn's Games, Dragonflight, Ecos: First Continent, Eldritch Horror, Fantasy Flight Games, Flatout Games, Grandpa Beck's, Herbaceous, Indie Boards & Cards, John D Clair, Prodigals Club, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, Rise, Route-building, Set Collection Games, Social Deduction Games, Space Cowboys, Speakeasy Blues, The Resistance, Thurn and Taxis, Tile-Laying Games, Unlock: Heroic Adventures, Valley of the Kings, Z-Man Games
Posted on August 11, 2023 by whovian223
July was yet another weird month for games, as I explained in last week’s “games played” post (sorry this one took so long after that). Even with that, I was able to get six new to me games to the table. Granted, three were… Continue Reading “New to Me – July 2023”
Posted on July 3, 2023 by whovian223
June has been a busy month, and not seemingly conducive to getting new board games played. We missed a Sunday game day (Father’s Day) and for two of the other three Sundays, our main “new games” guy wasn’t able to come. However, we maximized… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: AllPlay, Area Majority, Darwin's Journey, Gina Willis, GMT Games, Jerry White, Jun Sasaki, Lunch Time Games, Memory Games, Nestore Mangone, Oink Games, Order Overload: Cafe, Pollen, Reiner Knizia, Simone Luciani, Skies Above Britain, Solo Games, Thundergryph Games, Tile-Laying Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on May 5, 2023 by whovian223
As mentioned in my April Gaming post, April was not a banner month for games. Too much time off and missing a regular game day really sank that. It also affected my “new to me” games because I only got two of them played!… Continue Reading “New to Me – April 2023”
Posted on March 15, 2023 by whovian223
It’s Wednesday and part of me is still coming down from the high of a weekend full of boardgames! For the first time since March 2019, the annual (until COVID, damn it) Terminal City Tabletop Convention was held in my hometown of Vancouver this… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2023”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Alexander Pfister, Aporta Games, Bad Company, Bingo, Bot Factory, Card Games, Christian Kang, Contracts, Czech Games Edition, Diamonds, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Eilif Svensson, Eric Mosso, Franz-Benno Delonge, Gamelyn Games, Garphill Games, João Quintela Martins, John D Clair, Kenneth Minde, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Mike Fitzgerald, Oh My Goods, Peter B. Hoffgaard, Plumpy Thimble, Renegade Games Studios, Scott Almes, Set Collection Games, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Starship Captains, Stronghold Games, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tiny Epic Galaxies, Transamerica, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Winsome Games
This is a blog about board games, with the occasional other post for a bit of spice.