Posted on August 5, 2024
by whovian223
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I knew July would be a bit of an off month for gaming, but it wasn’t too bad. However, it didn’t really hit the “new to me games” jackpot, with only three of them to write about. Funny how it’s still taken me longer… Continue Reading “New to Me – July 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alderac, AllPlay, Auction Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Couture, David Short, Ground Floor, Josh Wood, Let's Go to Japan, Lunch Time Games, Set Collection Games, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Worker Placement Games, 佐藤 雄介 (Yusuke Sato)
Posted on May 2, 2024
by whovian223
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After a really full March, where it seemed like I played one game a day (ok, that’s only if you average it out, but still), April was a wasteland for gaming, sadly. Missing two Sundays, not as many games during lunch at work (if… Continue Reading “April 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Capstone Games, Card-Driven Game, Combat Commander, Daily Magic Games, London, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Oh My Goods, Osprey Games, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Villages of Valeria, Viticulture, Viticulture: Tuscany, Watergate, Worker Placement Games
Posted on March 21, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s a few days after another great convention experience, so let’s talk a little bit about Terminal City Tabletop Convention – 2024. This year, it was held at the Vancouver Convention Centre which is right on the water in downtown Vancouver. It’s a beautiful… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2024”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Amalfi: Renaissance, Ape Games, Aporta Games, Bad Company, Blob Party, Bombyx, Brotherwise Games, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Challengers, Delta, Dice-rolling, Empire's End, First Rat, FloodGate Games, Game Brewer, John D Clair, Kanban: Driver's Edition, Lookout Games, Loosey Goosey Games, Lunch Time Games, Of What's Left, Oh My Goods, Oh My Goods - Longsdale in Revolt, Pandasaurus Games, Party Games, Pegasus Spiele, Resource Management, Rise to Power, Sagrada, Schadenfreude, Sea Salt & Paper, Set Collection Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Surfosaurus Max, Sylex, Tableau-building, Track Movement, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on February 26, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s the first month of the year! And it’s also almost the end of February. Yes, it took so much energy to get my Top 50 games played of all time done, along with getting sick recently, that we’re into the last week of… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Adam Porter, Alain Epron, Alexander Pfister, BLAM Games, Board & Dice, Card Games, Claim, Clever 4Ever, Cody Miller, Daily Magic Games, Daniel McKinley, David Turczi, Dice Drafting, Economic Games, Eric Zimmerman, Far Off Games, Funforge Games, German Railroads, Guild Academies of Valeria, Helmut Ohley, Helvetiq Games, Hit Me!, I Found Bigfoot, John David Wood, Kompromat, Leonhard Orgler, Luc Rémond, Lunch Time Games, Matches, Mike A Pratt, Nucleum, Pegasus Spiele, Pick Up & Deliver, Port Royal, Puppy Pile, Push Your Luck Games, Quantum, Quined Games, Rob Fisher, Roll and Write Games, Romaric Galonnier, Russian Railroads, Schmidt Spiele, Scott Almes, Set Collection Games, Simone Luciani, Space Games, Splito, Stan Kordonskiy, Thing 12 Games, Trick-taking games, Tricky Dicks, Vanuatu, White Goblin Games, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Wryknot Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Z-Man Games
Posted on February 4, 2024
by whovian223
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How our tastes change over time is always kind of interesting to look at. As a kid, I loved Brussels Sprouts! Now, I really really hate them. Ok, I’m kidding…nobody sane likes Brussels Sprouts. But you get my point! Things you like as a… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#20-11)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Amalfi: Renaissance, Andrew Veen, Area Majority, Card Games, Cole Wehrle, ctr, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Deep Water Games, Dice-rolling, Elizabeth Hargrave, Fantastic Factories, Fryx Games, Gale Force 9, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Kayenta Games, Lunch Time Games, Nick Little, Obsession, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Peter Lee, Rio Grande Games, Rodney Thompson, Schadenfreude, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Sydney Engelstein, Sylex, Tableau-building, Takeo Yamada, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Trick-taking games, Tyrants of the Underdark, Underwater Cities, Vladimír Suchý, Wehrlegig Games, Wingspan, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 28, 2024
by whovian223
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When I was first talking about movement on this list between 2022 and 2024, I wasn’t sure how much movement there would be in the Top 10. Those games are still great, shouldn’t they stay up there? Of course, some games might supplant them,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#30-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alexander Pfister, Architects of the West Kingdom, Bezier Games, Block Wargames, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Chad Jensen, Cole Wehrle, Combat Commander: Pacific, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Daniele Tascini, David Thompson, Devir, Dice Drafting, Eggertspiele, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hans im Gluck, Isra C, John Foley, Kai Jensen, Kei Kajino, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Oink Games, Renegade Games Studios, Resist!, Richard Borg, Roger Tankersley, Rondel Games, Root, Salt & Pepper Games, SCOUT, Shei S, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Solo Games, The White Castle, Trevor Benjamin, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 14, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s only been two years, but it’s that time again! The 2022 edition of my “Top Games Played of All Time” was predicated on my having played just over 400 games. As of the end of 2023, I had played 534 games in total.… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#50-41)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Abstract Games, Action Selection, Alderac, Andreas Schmidt, Blood Bowl Team Manager, Board & Dice, Cape May, Chad Jensen, Charlie Bink, Cranio Creations, Daniele Tascini, David Thompson, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dominant Species, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, Engine-building, Fantasy Flight Games, Flaminia Brasini, GMT Games, Heaven & Ale, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Lunch Time Games, Michael Kiesling, On Mars, Paul Dennen, Set Collection Games, Simone Luciani, Teotihuacan, Thunderworks Games, Trekking Through History, Trevor Benjamin, Underdog Games, Virginio Gigli, Vital Lacerda, War Chest, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 22, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s the last Friday before Christmas and all through the malls, too many creatures were stirring, so much so that I would rather carve Shem Phillips’ initials into my hand with a penknife than go shopping. I think that’s how that old Christmas poem… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Catch Up Mechanisms”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Auction Games, Cryptozoic, Daily Magic Games, DC Comics Deck-Building Game, Dice Drafting, Food Chain Magnate, Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism and Other Ideas, Formal Ferret Games, GMT Games, Isle of Skye, Mayfair Games, Power Grid, Rio Grande Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Splotter Spellen, The Networks, Twilight Struggle, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 17, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit: 3/12/24) – It’s out of Early Access, and available on iOS/Android as well! One of the biggest games of 2020, hitting during the pandemic lockdowns but still going strong, was Dune: Imperium from Dire Wolf Digital. It was just phenomenally well-received, so much… Continue Reading “App Review – Early Access – Dune: Imperium”
Posted on November 30, 2023
by whovian223
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With a convention coming in November, I had a feeling that this New to Me games list would get pretty hefty. Little did I know how hefty it would get! This was a big month for new to me games. Even better, many of… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, 999 Games, Action Selection, Amigo Spiel, Brotherwise Games, Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, Century: a New World, Codenames: Deep Undercover, Czech Games Edition, Devir, Dice Drafting, Emerson Matsuuchi, Empire's End, Fréderic Moyersoen, GMT Games, Hellapagos, Isra C, John D Clair, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Laurence Gamelin, Lunch Time Games, Mark Simonitch, Mike Denson, Party Games, Philippe Gamelin, Plan B Games, Saboteur: the Dark Cave, Shei S, Team Games, The White Castle, Vlaada Chvátil, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
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