Tag: Worker Placement Games
Posted on May 7, 2026
by whovian223
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Doing these weekly posts about these centuries of “top games” on Boardgame Geek have often been interesting because of the conversations they’ve sparked with friends and fans. But they’ve also been interesting because I’ve seen some unexpected movement in the games I’m seeing. For… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2801-2900”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Alley Cat Games, Amun-Re, Amun-Re 20th Anniversary Edition, Area Control, Assyria, Auction Games, Bingo, Block Wargames, Brotherhood & Unity, Card-Driven Game, Colt Super Express, Columbia Games, Compass Games, Dice-rolling, General Orders: World War II, GMT Games, Hurrican Games, Indie Boards & Cards, Kokoro, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, New Amsterdam, Osprey Games, Programmed Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Richard III: The Wars of the Roses, Roll and Write Games, Silent Victory, Solo Games, Via Magica, Wargames, White Goblin Games, Worker Placement Games, Ystari Games
Posted on April 30, 2026
by whovian223
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I know I have said this before, but looking at the next couple of centuries in the Boardgame Geek top games rankings, at least the next couple of weeks are going to be very bare bones. I haven’t played a lot of them and… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2701 – 2800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Age of Comics: The Golden Years, Block Wargames, Card-Driven Game, Columbia Games, Cooperative Games, Cranio Creations, Crusader Rex, Dale of Merchants 3, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Game Salute, Iron Curtain, Jolly Roger Games, Legendary Encounters: The X-Files, Lirius Games, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, My Shelfie, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Shadowrift 2nd Edition, Snowdale Design, Steve Jackson Games, Ultra Pro, Upper Deck, Wargames, We the People, Worker Placement Games, Zombie Dice
Posted on April 16, 2026
by whovian223
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This is very late, and I am very sorry. Usually I have written my “New to Me Games” post by the end of the first week of the month. But March was such a cornucopia of new games that I just couldn’t do it!… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Anthony Giovannetti, Bruce Glassco, Card Games, Casey Yano, Contention Games, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Cover Your Cookies, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Emanuele Santellani, Expeditions, Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends, Gary Dworetsky, Grandpa Beck's, James Ernest, Jamey Stegmaier, Jeffrey Beck, Leonardo Alese, Light Speed: Arena, Lunch Time Games, Real-Time Games, Rogue-like, Set Collection Games, Slay the Spire: The Board Game, Speakeasy, Stonemaier Games, Tablescope, Tom Jolly, Vital Lacerda, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games
Posted on April 9, 2026
by whovian223
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When many people think of The Mob, they are thinking of New York mafia types, or New Jersey ones like the Sopranos. But when it gets moved back in time to Prohibition and the gangster wars of the 20s and 30s, everybody can name… Continue Reading “Cardboard Mob & Hot Spirits – Speakeasy Review”
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 March 19, 2026
by whovian223
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Has it been a year already since last year’s Terminal City convention? Why yes, yes it has. This year’s event was still down at the Vancouver Convention Centre on the waterfront, but it changed buildings to a much larger room. This convention-goer approves of… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2026”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Auction Games, Card Games, Container, Cooperative Games, Dungeons & Dragons: Temple of Elemental Evil, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Economic Games, Eggertspiele, Faraway, Fighting Games, Flip 7, Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, ForGames, GameHead, Grand Austria Hotel, Harvest, Kosmos, Long Shot: The Dice Game, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Pandasaurus Games, Perplext, Power Struggle, Push Your Luck Games, Roll and Write Games, Scorpion Masqué, Speakeasy, Tag Team, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, The Game, The Gang, The Op, Trinket Trove, Valley Games, Vital Lacerda, Wizards of the Coast, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games
Posted on March 16, 2026
by whovian223
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Just a quick post to tide you over until I get my Terminal City Tabletop Convention post done (there was a lot of gaming!) I didn’t have time to post this last week, but I received an email from Grey Fox Games announcing that… Continue Reading “Champions of Midgard Coming “Soon” to Steam”
Posted on March 11, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s been a short hiatus for these posts since I’ve had end of month stuff to do, but after a couple of weeks, we are back! Once again we are going through a century of games rated on Boardgame Geek, from 2101 to 2200.… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2101 – 2200”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Age of War, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Blam!, Brotherwise Games, Card-Driven Game, Chakra, COIN Games, Colonial Twilight, Daitoshi, Devir, Dice-rolling, Empire's End, Fantasy Flight Games, Favor of the Pharaoh, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Molly House, Rondel Games, Set Collection Games, Sports Games, Strat-O-Matic Baseball, The Expanse, Wehrlegig Games, Wizkids, 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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Thanks for those of you who have already checked out today’s post about the latest century of games rated on Boardgame Geek, the coveted (I tease) 1901-2000 slot! The reason for this updated post is that I completely missed talking about two games that… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1901 Through 2000 – Supplementary Edition”