Posted on January 17, 2025
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I’ve been on a trick-taking tear recently, though that’s not necessarily reflected in my reviews (getting them played is another thing). I have been buying a bunch of them, though. One of them that I’ve actually played enough to review recently is a rather… Continue Reading “This is a Prince-Free Bash – Rebel Princess Review”
Posted on December 6, 2024
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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
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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 3, 2024
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As I mentioned the other day, October as a month really sucked, especially for gaming. Being sick, missing three game days, I was totally surprised that I actually managed to play any new to me games! Much less three. I even managed to placate… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Bezier Games, Card Games, Forest Shuffle, Kosch, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Sandbag, Spyrium, Tableau-building, Ted Alspach, Trick-taking games, William Attia, Worker Placement Games, Ystari Games
Posted on October 7, 2024
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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 May 27, 2024
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Two-player trick-taking games are odd ducks. I mean, not Cobra Chicken odd ducks. Nothing compares to them. But they are odd in their own way. They always have to have some kind of neat twist because otherwise it’s just two players laying down cards… Continue Reading “Review – Claim”
Posted on April 22, 2024
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I like card games a lot. Short, punchy 2-player card games are even better, as you don’t need a lot of time and they work in almost any circumstance. Even better is when they do some innovative things with the whole genre. Like Cain… Continue Reading “Kickstarter Review – Like Cain and Abel”
Posted on March 21, 2024
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It’s a few days after another great convention experience, so let’s talk a little bit about Terminal City Tabletop Convention – 2024. This year, it was held at the Vancouver Convention Centre which is right on the water in downtown Vancouver. It’s a beautiful… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2024”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Amalfi: Renaissance, Ape Games, Aporta Games, Bad Company, Blob Party, Bombyx, Brotherwise Games, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Challengers, Delta, Dice-rolling, Empire's End, First Rat, FloodGate Games, Game Brewer, John D Clair, Kanban: Driver's Edition, Lookout Games, Loosey Goosey Games, Lunch Time Games, Of What's Left, Oh My Goods, Oh My Goods - Longsdale in Revolt, Pandasaurus Games, Party Games, Pegasus Spiele, Resource Management, Rise to Power, Sagrada, Schadenfreude, Sea Salt & Paper, Set Collection Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Surfosaurus Max, Sylex, Tableau-building, Track Movement, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on February 26, 2024
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It’s the first month of the year! And it’s also almost the end of February. Yes, it took so much energy to get my Top 50 games played of all time done, along with getting sick recently, that we’re into the last week of… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Adam Porter, Alain Epron, Alexander Pfister, BLAM Games, Board & Dice, Card Games, Claim, Clever 4Ever, Cody Miller, Daily Magic Games, Daniel McKinley, David Turczi, Dice Drafting, Economic Games, Eric Zimmerman, Far Off Games, Funforge Games, German Railroads, Guild Academies of Valeria, Helmut Ohley, Helvetiq Games, Hit Me!, I Found Bigfoot, John David Wood, Kompromat, Leonhard Orgler, Luc Rémond, Lunch Time Games, Matches, Mike A Pratt, Nucleum, Pegasus Spiele, Pick Up & Deliver, Port Royal, Puppy Pile, Push Your Luck Games, Quantum, Quined Games, Rob Fisher, Roll and Write Games, Romaric Galonnier, Russian Railroads, Schmidt Spiele, Scott Almes, Set Collection Games, Simone Luciani, Space Games, Splito, Stan Kordonskiy, Thing 12 Games, Trick-taking games, Tricky Dicks, Vanuatu, White Goblin Games, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Wryknot Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Z-Man Games
Posted on February 4, 2024
by whovian223
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How our tastes change over time is always kind of interesting to look at. As a kid, I loved Brussels Sprouts! Now, I really really hate them. Ok, I’m kidding…nobody sane likes Brussels Sprouts. But you get my point! Things you like as a… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#20-11)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Amalfi: Renaissance, Andrew Veen, Area Majority, Card Games, Cole Wehrle, ctr, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Deep Water Games, Dice-rolling, Elizabeth Hargrave, Fantastic Factories, Fryx Games, Gale Force 9, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Kayenta Games, Lunch Time Games, Nick Little, Obsession, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Peter Lee, Rio Grande Games, Rodney Thompson, Schadenfreude, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Sydney Engelstein, Sylex, Tableau-building, Takeo Yamada, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Trick-taking games, Tyrants of the Underdark, Underwater Cities, Vladimír Suchý, Wehrlegig Games, Wingspan, Worker Placement Games
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