Tag: Worker Placement 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: 1, 10, 14, 26, 5, 53, 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 12, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re starting to get down into the dregs of the Boardgame Geek Top 2000 games. Not dregs in that these are bad games, because considering there are thousands of games in the BGG database, the top 2000 are still fairly highly rated. But just… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1701 Through 1800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2, Action Selection, Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #2, Alderac, Bang!, Bot Factory, Card Games, Devir, Dice City, Dice-rolling, DV Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, Hasbro, Hit Z Road, Ierusalem: Anno Domini, Lookout Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Pearl Games, Resource Management, Rio Grande Games, Robo Rally, Rondel Games, Salton Sea, Space Cowboys, Space Station Phoenix, Staufer Dynasty, Tournay, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on January 9, 2026
by whovian223
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This year’s second installment of the Top 50 games played of all time and it’s the second on two weeks! I’m on a roll. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep up the weekly basis for this so I can be done in early February.… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#40-31)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 300, Action Selection, Antonio Zax, Card-Driven Game, Chad Jensen, Cole Wehrle, Combat Commander: Pacific, Cosmodrome Games, Deckbuilders, Economic Games, Fabio Lopiano, Fliptoons, Fryx Games, GMT Games, Ivan Lashin, Jacob Fryxelius, John Foley, Jonny Pac Cantin, Jordy Adan, Kai Jensen, Kanban: Driver's Edition, Laskas, Lunch Time Games, Nestore Mangone, Nick Little, Pandasaurus Games, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Petr Mojžíš, Renato Simões, Shackleton Base, Smartphone Inc, Sorry We Are French, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Tableau-building, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, The Bell of Treason, Thunderworks Games, Unconscious Mind, Vital Lacerda, Wargames, Wehrlegig Games, Worker Placement Games, Yoma
Posted on January 6, 2026
by whovian223
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This isn’t exactly “news,” because designer Jackie Fox has been talking about it for a while on Boardgame Geek. But hearing more detail (including a relative release date, which may have been announced before but it didn’t register in my brain) made me decide… Continue Reading “Rock Hard 1977 – Ear Candy – Coming in August 2026”
Posted on December 27, 2025
by whovian223
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Sorry for breaking the weekly schedule, those of you who have been following these posts so religiously (hi, Bob!) Last week had other important posts to do that didn’t take quite as much time, because these posts do take a lot of effort and… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1501 Through 1600”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: A Gest of Robin Hood, Action Selection, Alderac, Area Control, Area Movement, BoardgameTables.com, Card Games, CMYK, COIN Games, Contracts, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Game Brewer, GMT Games, Hostage Negotiator, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Middle Ages, Mountain Goats, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Renegade Games Studios, Route-building, Sentient, Smash Up, Smash Up: It's Your Fault, Starship Captains, Stroganov, Tableau-building, TEN, The Hunger, Transamerica, Van Ryder Games, Variable Player Powers, White Goblin Games, Winsome Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 22, 2025
by whovian223
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Short post tonight because it’s the Monday before Christmas and I wasn’t going to post anything, until something on Boardgame Geek sparked a thought. Sam C on Boardgame Geek asked this question about Architects of the West Kingdom (a fantastic game, though one that’s… Continue Reading “Doing “Unethical” Things in Games”
Posted on December 5, 2025
by whovian223
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It’s Friday! Time for another look at 100 games on the Boardgame Geek top rankings. Ok, last week’s was Wednesday, and the week before was Thursday. It hasn’t taken its Metamucil yet. Just go with it, ok? It’s going to be weekly, but not… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1201 Through 1300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1254, 1268, 1285, 1288, Action Selection, Adventure Games, Arcane Wonders, Artipia Games, Bad Company, Bezier Games, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Comic Hunters, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Empire's End, Fallout, Fantasy Flight Games, Flick of Faith, Galileo Galilei, GMT Games, Jump Drive, Lunch Time Games, Memoir '44, Moon Colony Bloodbath, Pandasaurus Games, Pretty Pretty Smash Up, Prodigals Club, Rebel Princess, Resist!, Rio Grande Games, Rock Hard 1977, Smash Up, Solo Games, Space Base, Star Wars: Battle of Hoth, The Game, Time of Crisis, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Witchcraft!, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 1, 2025
by whovian223
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I knew November would be much better than October for my gaming, because there’s a really nice 4-day convention in November. I didn’t expect that it would be this much better, though! In November, I managed to play 36 games a total of 57… Continue Reading “November 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Bomb Busters, Bottoscon, Card Games, Combat Commander, Cover Your A$$ets, Deckbuilders, Doomlings, Dune Imperium, Ecos: First Continent, Final Girl, Galactic Cruise, Hansa Teutonica, Inventors of the South Tigris, Inventors of the South Tigris - Era of Experts, Lunch Time Games, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, SETI, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on November 20, 2025
by whovian223
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Recently the “This Game is Broken” podcast did a “Higher or Lower” game based on games in the Boardgame Geek rankings from 1000 to 2000. (You should really check them out, by the way. Hilarious boardgame podcast) During the Covid lockdowns, in order to… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1000 Through 1100 – Thoughts”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1989: Dawn of Freedom, Adrenaline, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, boardgamegeek, Capstone Games, Card-Driven Game, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Castles of Mad King Ludwig Collector's Edition, Coffee Traders, Czech Games Edition, Deduction, Economic Games, Friedrich, GMT Games, Hidden Movement, Histogame, One vs Many, Point to Point Movement, Rebellion Unplugged, Sniper Elite: the Board Game, Tile-Laying Games, Washington's War, Worker Placement Games, Yedo, Yedo: Deluxe Master Set
Posted on November 11, 2025
by whovian223
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This past weekend was the 19th annual Bottoscon convention at the Inn at the Quay in New Westminster, Canada. We’re almost at 20! The con is run by Rob Bottos, a great guy who has taken to heart what many of us Canadians have… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2025 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, AllPlay, Aporta Games, Artipia Games, Bad Company, Bottoscon, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cascadia, CMON, CMYK, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Devir, Diamonds, Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Flatout Games, Galactic Cruise, Gizmos, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jackie Fox, Kinson Key Games, Kosmos, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Oddland, Origin Story, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, Roll and Move, Schadenfreude, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Pepper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, The Gang, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games
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