Tag: Trick-taking games
Posted on October 3, 2023
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September was a fairly lean month for gaming, especially new to me games. I’ve already talked about my September gaming in general, so how about the monthly chat about “new to me” games? I’m actually quite proud of the fact that this is my… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Brad Johnson, Card Games, David Thompson, Dice-rolling, Fryx Games, GMT Games, Jacob Fryxelius, Lunch Time Games, Resist!, Roger Tankersley, Salt & Pepper Games, Solo Games, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars: the Dice Game, The Barracks Emperors, Trevor Benjamin, Trick-taking games, Wray Ferrell
Posted on September 1, 2023
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It’s hard to believe August is over and we’re in September now! August was primed to be a big gaming month but it kind of sputtered with me getting sick. Missing a Sunday probably took 2-3 games (or at least plays) away from my… Continue Reading “August 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Card Games, Combat Commander, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Dragonflight, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Parade, Prodigals Club, The Barracks Emperors, Thurn and Taxis, Trick-taking games, Z-Man Games
Posted on August 11, 2023
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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”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Area Control, Bitewing Games, Brian Boru: High King of Ireland, Card Games, ctr, Lunch Time Games, Osprey Games, Peer Sylvester, Route-building, Ryan Courtney, Schadenfreude, Studio Turbine, Tile-Laying Games, Trailblazers, Trick-taking games
Posted on August 2, 2023
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(Edit: 8/29/23:) – It’s live! And it’s $81 CDN before shipping. Something to think about… Exciting news for trick-taking fans everywhere, especially those of the quantum trick-taking game Cat in the Box. I like to think that Bezier Games decided to release this now… Continue Reading “Colossal Cat in the Box From Bezier Games Coming to Kickstarter – August 29”
Posted on July 14, 2023
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Trick-taking games are almost becoming a dime a dozen boardgame commodity. There are so many of them out there that there has to be some kind of hook in order to get them noticed. There’s Brian Boru, for example (which I’ll be talking about… Continue Reading “Review – Cat in the Box”
Posted on June 29, 2023
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With Father’s Day coming in June (here’s a link to the Father’s Day post I made in 2019, the first Father’s Day after my dad passed away), meaning that another Sunday Game Day was cancelled (or moved, but I chose to skip it), I… Continue Reading “June 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Bezier Games, Boardgame Arena, Card Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Charioteer, Combat Commander, Czech Games Edition, Gamewright Games, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Racing Game, Skies Above Britain, Solo Games, Sushi Go Party, Trick-taking games
Posted on March 15, 2023
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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
Posted on January 10, 2023
by whovian223
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OrcaCon is a convention held in Bellevue, Washington in January every year. Sadly, I wasn’t able to go last year and the two years before that…well, something happened. I’m not really sure what. I went to my first OrcaCon in January 2020 and then… Continue Reading “OrcaCon 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Alexander Pfister, Andrew Parks, Atlas Games, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Bluffing, Calico, Card Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Charioteer, CMON, Contracts, Core Worlds, David Fooden, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, Elizabeth Hargrave, Engine-building, Gizmos, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Kevin Russ, Lunch Time Games, Matt Calkins, Monster Couch, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Nick Little, Nicolas Robert, On Mars, Pearl Games, Phil Walker-Harding, Racing Game, Rondel Games, Seals of Cthulhu, Sean Epperson, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, The Bloody Inn, Thing 12 Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wingspan, Wingspan: Asia, Wingspan: European Expansion, Wingspan: Oceania expansion, Yukon Salon
Posted on November 11, 2022
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October started out really kind of warm and ended really cold and rainy. Welcome to the Pacific Northwest! But it was a good month for gaming. I already told you about the month in general, though, so let’s stick to the stuff that you… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2022”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Aporta Games, Bad Company, Bezier Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Contracts, Cory Jones, Cryptozoic, Deckbuilders, Devil Dice Games, Dice-rolling, Eilif Svensson, Epic Spell Wars: Annihilageddon, Finca, Hand Management, Kenneth Minde, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Matt Dunn, Matt Hyra, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Ralf zur Linde, Rio Grande Games, Rondel Games, Trick-taking games, Underwater Cities, Vladimír Suchý, Wolfgang Sentker, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 3, 2021
by whovian223
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Welcome to November’s “New to Me” post! You may notice something odd about November. No, it’s not that I had way too much Thanksgiving turkey (THANKSGIVING’S IN OCTOBER, YOU NON-CANADIANS!). It’s that three of the seven entries on this list are from Alderac Entertainment… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2021”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Auction Games, Avalon Hill, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Dice Drafting, Erik Andersson Sundén, Grand Austria Hotel, Henry Stern, Jump Drive, Kosmos, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Molly Johnson, Push Your Luck Games, Rio Grande Games, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich, Simone Luciani, TEN, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, The Op, Thomas Sing, Tom Lehmann, Trick-taking games, Variable Player Powers, Vegas Showdown, Virginio Gigli, Whirling Witchcraft, Wizards of the Coast