Tag: Trick-taking 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
Posted on February 16, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve done one of these BGG centuries posts, though not because I was getting tired of them. There were just more important things to post about! I enjoy writing these BGG posts, even when the games are… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1901 Through 2000”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #3, Alderac, Chilifox Games, COIN Games, Contracts, Cwali, Dice Drafting, Draft & Write Records, Drafting Games, Empire Builder, Factory Funner, Fields of Fire 2, GMT Games, Halls of Hegra, Inside Up Games, Multiman Publishing, Pendragon: the Fall of Roman Britain, Queen Games, Ravensburger, Roll and Write Games, Route-building, Schadenfreude, Solo Games, Spectacular, Studio Turbine, Tile-Laying Games, Tompet Games, Trick-taking games, Wallenstein, Wargames, Whirling Witchcraft
Posted on February 2, 2026
by whovian223
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Hard to believe that we’re already a month into 2026! My, how time flies. I wasn’t sure what to expect from January, especially because we had some really small Sundays and long games played. Which is good! But also means that not a lot… Continue Reading “January 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, AllPlay, Arboretum, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Capstone Games, Card Games, Claim, Kosmos, Lost Cities, Lunch Time Games, Rebel Princess, Renegade Games Studios, River Valley Glassworks, Sanctuary, Tableau-building, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, White Goblin Games
Posted on January 16, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s another week and another entry in the Top 50 Games Played of All Time (the 2026 edition!) Of course, this is “games played,” not “games” because at only 587, my number of games played doesn’t even scratch the surface of what’s out there,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#30-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Andrew Veen, Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, Architects of the West Kingdom, Area Control, Brad Johnson, Card Games, Cranio Creations, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Delicious Games, Devir, Dice Drafting, Earth, Eilif Svensson, Flaminia Brasini, Gale Force 9, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Helge Meissner, Inside Up Games, Isra C, Kayenta Games, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Lunch Time Games, Maxime Tardif, Obsession, Peter Lee, Revive, Rodney Thompson, Schadenfreude, Shei S, Shem Phillips, Shipyard (2nd Edition), Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Studio Turbine, Tableau-building, The White Castle, Time of Crisis, Trick-taking games, Tyrants of the Underdark, Virginio Gigli, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Wray Ferrell
Posted on January 3, 2026
by whovian223
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Two years goes by so fast. Hell, even a month goes by so fast, as I remember looking forward to all of the holiday fun and time off in December, and now it’s January and where did the time go? However, it has been… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#50-41)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Arcs, Card Games, Cole Wehrle, Contracts, Daily Magic Games, Daniel Bullock, David Gordon, Deep Water Games, Dice Placement, Drafting Games, Elizabeth Hargrave, Fantastic Factories, Finspan, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Guild Academies of Valeria, In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943-44, Inventors of the South Tigris, Jo Kelly, Joe Schmidt, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Michael O'Connell, Molly House, PubMeeple, Roll and Move, Root, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stan Kordonskiy, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Trick-taking games, Wehrlegig Games, Wingspan
Posted on December 18, 2025
by whovian223
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I really like how successful these posts have been! There has been some true engagement as people have gone through the lists and talked about their own experiences with them. I know the last post was Sunday, but let’s get back onto that weekly… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1401 Through 1500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Ancient Knowledge, Arcane Wonders, Area Majority, Avalon Hill, Betrayal at Baldur's Gate, Bezier Games, Blacklist Games, Cooperative Games, Dale of Merchants 2, Deckbuilders, DVG Games, Foundations of Metropolis, Hidden Roles, HUCH Games, Iello Games, It's a Wonderful Kingdom, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, Pavlov's House, Pegasus Spiele, Rio Grande Games, Route-building, Royals, Scorpion Masqué, Seas of Strife, Snowdale Design, Star Trek: Captain's Chair, Strasbourg, Street Masters, Tag Team, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vanuatu, Whistle Stop, Wizkids