Tag: Worker Placement Games
Posted on October 9, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s another Friday night, so time for some stream of consciousness writing about a boardgame topic that makes me happy. What better thing to do on a Friday night? Tonight, with a little bit of whiskey added to the mix, I’d like to talk… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Games That Grabbed You on First Look”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Bohemians, Capstone Games, Card Games, Class of '89, Deckbuilders, Delicious Games, Lunch Time Games, Paverson Games, Portal Games, Resafa, Track Movement, Up or Down, Worker Placement Games
Posted on October 7, 2026
by whovian223
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We’ve hit the 5000 mark in our examination of the Boardgame Geek game rankings, one century of games a week, and it feels quite cool, actually. I’ve really enjoyed doing this series, and it has kept me consistently writing as well, which is another… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4901 – 5000”
Category: Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Ascension: Skulls & Sails, Asmadi Games, Battle Above the Clouds, Blitz Bowl - Season 2, Bombay, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Contracts, Deckbuilders, Flashpoint South China Sea, Games Workshop, GMT Games, HUCH Games, LudiCreations, Lunch Time Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Penny Press, Pick Up & Deliver, Pilgrims, Pink Troubador, Rajas of the Ganges: Cards & Karma, Set Collection Games, Silver Bayonet, So, You've Been Eaten, Solo Games, Stoneblade, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Ystari Games
Posted on October 2, 2026
by whovian223
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We’ve all played those games before. The games where just sitting there playing the game, using the mechanisms (card drafting, worker placement, whatever) and you just think “this isn’t really that different than (fill in the blank) and it’s kind of boring.” But then… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Games Where the “Extras” Make the Game Better”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night Shots, OpinionTags: Alderac, Bohemians, Card Drafting, Deckbuilders, Devir, Jackie Fox, Let's Go to Japan, Portal Games, Rock Hard 1977, Story-driven Games, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on September 29, 2026
by whovian223
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Even closer to 5000 on the Boardgame Geek ranking system, the pickings of played games are getting slim! Not so slim that it would keep me from doing another in this series of posts, because it’s so goddamned fun to talk about games, both… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4801 – 4900”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Advanced Third Reich, America - Trivia Game, Area Control, Area Majority, Avalon Hill, Bezier Games, Blitz Bowl - Ultimate Edition, Blue Panther Games, City of Gears, Compass Games, Cooperative Games, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Engine-building, Family Games, Fireside Games, Games Workshop, Grey Fox Games, Grid Movement, Horizons, Land and Freedom, Legends of the Void, Lunch Time Games, My First Castle Panic, Party Games, Semi-cooperative Games, The Lamps are Going Out, Twoid Games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
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 July 9, 2026
by whovian223
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I normally don’t do two posts in one day, but I couldn’t contain my excitement about this one and wanted to post something quick about it. It’s long been known that Rock Hard is one of my favourite games out there right now, but… Continue Reading “Rock Hard: Ear Candy Update”
Posted on July 6, 2026
by whovian223
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June wasn’t as big of a month for new to me games, which makes sense because even the convention I attended only had two. Bottoscons tend to have us play older games for the most part, though not always. Combine that with, as I… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Card Playing, Empire Builder: Europe, Joachim Thôme, La Boîte de Jeu, Lancaster, Matthias Cramer, Mayfair Games, New Frontiers, Queen Games, Rio Grande Games, Tom Lehmann, Train Games, Tribes of the Wind, Worker Placement Games
Posted on July 1, 2026
by whovian223
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Happy Canada Day! June was a weird month for gaming. It had a full convention, a 3-day weekend of wonderful gaming with friends as well new acquintances. However, that convention was full of long plays so the number of games played wasn’t as high… Continue Reading “June 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Card Games, CMYK, Days of Wonder, Dice-rolling, Gamelyn Games, Garphill Games, Heat: Pedal to the Metal, Loosey Goosey Games, Lunch Time Games, Mindclash Games, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Scholars of the South Tigris, Surfosaurus Max, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tiny Epic Galaxies, Trickerion, Worker Placement Games
Posted on June 22, 2026
by whovian223
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Back in the early 2020s, Dire Wolf Digital had a huge hit with Paul Dennen’s Dune Imperium, a classic blending of deckbuilding mechanics and worker placement that quickly rose into the Boardgame Geek Top 100 and currently sits in the Top 10. They came… Continue Reading “The Uprising Will Be Televised – App Expansion Review – Dune Imperium: Uprising”
Posted on June 17, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s June, so it must be time for the 2nd annual Bottoscon Spring convention! Bottoscon is a convention created and run by (though the running of it is helped by numerous other people as well) Rob Bottos, a great guy who looks out for… Continue Reading “Bottoscon Spring 2026 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Bag Building, Bingo, Bottoscon Spring, Card Games, Card Playing, CMYK, Combat Commander: Europe/Med Master Edition, Cover Your A$$ets, Dice Placement, Ecos: First Continent, Empire Builder: Europe, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Long Shot: The Dice Game, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, Mayfair Games, Mindclash Games, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Pandasaurus Games, Perplext, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Route-building, Scholars of the South Tigris, Sea Salt & Paper, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Tribes of the Wind, Trickerion, Wargames, Worker Placement Games