Tag: Trick-taking games
Posted on September 23, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re getting close to the 5000 mark on this look at centuries of Boardgame Geek game rankings, and one thing is becoming clear: I haven’t played a lot of these as we get deeper! Last week was a bit of a return to form… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4701 – 4800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Area Control, Bezier Games, Bohemians, Card-Driven Game, Colossal Cat in the Box, Compass Games, Crusader Kings, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Europe in Turmoil, First Giants, Free League Publishing, GMT Games, Junk Orbit, Leaping Lemmings, Lock & Load Publishing, Pick Up & Deliver, Portal Games, PSC Games, Quartermaster General: Victory or Death, Renegade Games Studios, Set Collection Games, Space Cowboys, Trick-taking games, Wargames, World at War '85: Storming the Gap
Posted on September 8, 2026
by whovian223
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After last month where I said that my “new to me games” list was slacking off a bit in 2026, August managed to bring six new games to the table! That still only puts me at 46 new games where last year was 84.… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Area Majority, Blue Orange Games, Dark Pact, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dimitri Perrier, Explor8, Federation, Got Five!, Hanami, Into the Machine, Kasper Lapp, Keymaster Games, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Matthieu Verdier, Racing Game, Reiner Knizia, The Crew: Journey to the Ends of the Earth, Thomas Sing, Tom Lehmann, Trick or Treat Studios, Trick-taking games, Yoann Levet
Posted on September 2, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re halfway through the 4000s in our weekly look at games on the Boardgame Geek top games list, and things are looking up again. Slightly. Last week, I had only played two of the games in that century and I was beginning to despair… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4401 – 4500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, AllPlay, Andreas Odendahl, Area Control, Arkham Horror: Final Hour, Battalion Combat Series, Bezier Games, Bill Eberle, Card Games, Carlo A Rossi, Christopher Wray, Cooperative Games, Cosmic Encounter Duel, Dean Essig, Dice Drafting, El Burro, Fantasy Flight Games, Francisco Gradaille, Frank Brooks, Game Makers, GMT Games, Greg Olotka, Ignacy Trzewiczek, La Granja, Lane Battler, Last Blitzkrieg, Levy & Campaign Series, Lunch Time Games, Michael Keller, Multi-Man Publishing, Neuroshima Convoy, Oops You Did It Again, Paul Peterson, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, Pollen, Portal Games, Reiner Knizia, Smash Up, Spielworxx, Stonemaier Games, Todd Michlitsch, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket
Posted on August 12, 2026
by whovian223
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Another week and another look at the Boardgame Geek boardgame rankings! This time we’re moving further into the 4000s, and this is where you start finding the niche games that are really good, but not that many people know about them or play them.… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4101 – 4200”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Action Selection, AllPlay, Avalon Hill, Bezier Games, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cooperative Games, Dune: A Game of Conquest and Diplomacy, Gale Force 9, Game Makers, GMT Games, Gravwell 2nd Edition, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Level 10, Lunch Time Games, Matagot, Okey Dokey, Rebuilding Chicago, Rebuilding Seattle, Renegade Games Studios, Russian Front, Seers Catalog, Stonemaier Games, The Last Hundred Yards, Tile-Laying Games, Torchlit, Trick-taking games, War & Peace, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket, Wizkids
Posted on July 15, 2026
by whovian223
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Some of these “top BGG Games” posts are a little lean on games that I’ve played, though I really enjoy that because we can then spend more time talking about games that it would be cool to play! If there are any in that… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 3701 – 3800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1861: The Railways of the Russian Empire, 2-Player Games, All Aboard Games, Alley Cat Games, Almoravid, Ascension X: War of Shadows, Ascension: Dawn of Champions, Bottle Imp, Cable Car, Car Wars, Card Drafting, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, DVG Games, Field Commander Alexander, GMT Games, Levy & Campaign Series, Lunch Time Games, Margraves of Valeria, Matagot, Panzer, Queen Games, Roll and Write Games, Solo Games, Steve Jackson Games, Stoneblade, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Welcome to Dino World, Worker Placement Games
Posted on June 1, 2026
by whovian223
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There were no conventions attended in May, but there was a 14-hour games marathon where a bunch of games were played. So I knew this would be a lengthy post! This month, I actually played more new to me games than I did in… Continue Reading “New to Me – May 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Amigo Spiel, Area Control, Asmodee North America, AuZtralia, Brett J Gilbert, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Circus Flohcati, Cooperative Games, Craig E. Somerton, Dice-rolling, DNUP, Drafting Games, El Grande, Farm Hand, First Giants, Florenza: the Card Game, Gang of Dice, Gémklub, Gst, Hand Management, Hans im Gluck, Hasbro, Heckmeck am Karteneck, Katharine Chapman, Kei Kajino, Limited communication games, Lookout Games, Luc Rémond, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Martin Wallace, Matthew Dunstan, Monopoly Deal - Card Game, Nusfjord, Placentia Games, Push Your Luck Games, Reiner Knizia, Richard Ulrich, Route-building, SchilMil Games, Scorpion Masqué, Semi-cooperative Games, Set Collection Games, Sky Team, Space Cowboys, Stefano Groppi, Take-That games, Trick-taking games, Uwe Rosenberg, Wolfgang Kramer, Worker Placement Games, Zoch Verlag
Posted on May 22, 2026
by whovian223
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Recently I was watching a boardgame Youtube video about the creator’s top 10 things that they don’t like in games (sorry, I don’t remember who it was or I would link to them). One of these “things he avoids” was “limited communication in games.”… Continue Reading “I’m Not Talking to You – Games Where You Can’t Communicate”
Category: Board Games, OpinionTags: 2-Player Games, Cooperative Games, Kosmos, Limited communication games, Lunch Time Games, Pandasaurus Games, Scorpion Masqué, Sky Team, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, The Game, The Gang, Trick-taking games
Posted on May 20, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s Wednesday, the middle of the week, so how about a middle post about Boardgame Geek rankings? I mentioned last week that I’ll keep doing these until I hit a week where I haven’t played anything. That ain’t this week! I should remind folks… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 3001 – 3100”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1923 Cotton Club, 9 Lives, Action Selection, Alderac, AllPlay, Area Control, Avalon Hill, Board & Dice, Card Drafting, Card Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Fields of Fire: Deluxe Edition, Firestarter Games, GMT Games, Kingmaker, Looping Games, Lunch Time Games, Point Galaxy, Reforest, Sierra West, Solo Games, Stratego, Tableau-building, The City, Trick-taking games, Wargames, What Were We Thinking, Worker Placement Games
Posted on March 27, 2026
by whovian223
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Each week when I do these BGG Top Games posts, I comment about how things are getting a little thin down here in the 2000s. It’s like you’re scuba diving and suddenly your air tank is reading as near empty and you don’t know… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2301-2400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Block Wargames, Claim 2, Columbia Games, Great Western Trail: El Paso, Harbour, John Company 1st Edition, La Granja: No Siesta, Light Speed: Arena, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Real-Time Games, Resource Management, Roll and Write Games, Rommel in the Desert, Sierra Madre Games, Stronghold Games, Tablescope, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Trick-taking games, Wargames, White Goblin Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on February 23, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re into a new millennium! Not year-wise, of course. We are sadly still in 2026. But in looking at the Boardgame Geek game rankings, we are now over 2000. Some might say we’re getting into the dregs, where I haven’t played, or even thought… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2001 Through 2100”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 3 Chapters, Amigo Spiel, Bezier Games, Card Drafting, Cooperative Games, Deinko Games, Druid City Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Holland '44, I Split You Choose, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, Mr. President, New York Slice, Patchistory, Real-Time Games, Resource Management, Set Collection Games, Solo Games, Sorcerer City, Tableau-building, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games