Tag: Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 8, 2025
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I’ve been writing this blog for almost 8 years now, doing a monthly “new to me” post for just as long (it started in April 2017, but it was about March’s games!), and I often do “best games played” of the year if I’m… Continue Reading “Top 10 New to Me Games of 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to Me, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Alderac, Alexander Pfister, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Civolution, Contracts, Corentin Lebrat, Delicious Games, Devir, Dice Placement, Eggertspiele, Eric Hong, Faraway, Forest Shuffle, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Harmonies, Jackie Fox, Johan Benvenuto, Johannes Goupy, Josh Wood, Kosch, Let's Go to Japan, Libellud, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Pegasus Spiele, Pirates of Maracaibo, Racing Game, Ralph Bienert, Rock Hard 1977, Rondel Games, Ryan Hendrickson, Shipyard (2nd Edition), Stefan Feld, Tableau-building, Tile-Laying Games, Vale of Eternity, Vladimír Suchý, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 6, 2025
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Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a big fan of Folded Space inserts because they just make organizing and playing games so much easier. No emptying of baggies, and then wondering which baggy each thing should go in when you’re putting stuff… Continue Reading “Rock Hard 1977 – Storage Solution from Folded Space”
Posted on November 27, 2024
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If you’re a boardgamer and you haven’t heard of Dune: Imperium, what rock have you been hiding under? I know that Boardgame Geek is not the end-all and be-all of board games, the game itself is currently ranked 6th and the new “version” of… Continue Reading “Who the Heck is Ix? – App Expansion Review – Dune Imperium: the Rise of Ix”
Category: Apps, Board Games, ReviewTags: Android, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Dune Imperium - Rise of Ix, Expansions, ios, Paul Dennen, Steam, Worker Placement Games
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 October 1, 2024
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September was a weird month for gaming, mainly because we didn’t play a lot at work because various people were away (or we just were so exhausted due to work stuff that we just wanted to hibernate at lunch). Thus, most (but not all)… Continue Reading “September 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Auction Games, BG Stats, Board & Dice, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Combat Commander: Pacific, Devir, Doomlings, Doomlings LLC, Faraway, GMT Games, Jackie Fox, Lunch Time Games, Renegade Games Studios, Rock Hard 1977, Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan: Expansion Period, Vale of Eternity, Vegas Showdown, Worker Placement Games
Posted on September 26, 2024
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In the 70s, I wonder how many kids wanted to grow up to be rock stars. I wasn’t one of them. While I am a child of the 70s, I wasn’t really listening to much rock music when I was growing up. My parents… Continue Reading “Sex, Candy, and Rock & Roll”
Posted on September 3, 2024
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July was not a great month for new to me games, but I had a feeling that August would make up for it, with a convention going on and everything. And it did! August was great for new to me games, with seven of… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Adam Hill, Adrian Adamescu, Alexander Pfister, AllPlay, Ben Pinchback, Capstone Games, Catch Up Games, Corentin Lebrat, Czech Games Edition, Daniel Piechnick, Daryl Andrews, Devir, Duel Games, Economic Games, Faraway, First Fish Games, Jackie Fox, Johannes Goupy, Kutná Hora, Lunch Time Games, Matt Riddle, Mistwind, Ondřej Bystroň, Pavel Jarosch, Petr Čáslava, Pick Up & Deliver, Pirates of Maracaibo, Radlands, Ralph Bienert, River Valley Glassworks, Rock Hard 1977, Roxley Games, Ryan Hendrickson, Tableau-building, Worker Placement Games
Posted on August 23, 2024
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This past weekend was the Dragonflight boardgame convention in Bellevue, Washington. I’ve gone down the last couple of years and used to go down before the pandemic, but this was the first year where most of my Vancouver contingent didn’t go down too. Thankfully,… Continue Reading “Dragonflight 2024 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Adam Hill, Adrian Adamescu, Alexander Pfister, AllPlay, Ben Pinchback, Capstone Games, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Corentin Lebrat, Czech Games Edition, Daryl Andrews, Devir, Dragonflight, Economic Games, Faraway, First Fish Games, Jackie Fox, Johannes Goupy, Kutná Hora, Lunch Time Games, Matt Riddle, Mistwind, Ondřej Bystroň, OrcaCon, Pavel Jarosch, Petr Čáslava, Pick Up & Deliver, Pirates of Maracaibo, Ralph Bienert, River Valley Glassworks, Rock Hard 1977, Ryan Hendrickson, Sean Epperson, Tableau-building, Thing 12 Games, Worker Placement Games
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