Dan Thurot
@danthurot.bsky.social
I'm just some dude. A cardboard cowboy. I also write Space-Biff!, the world's first and only board game review site.
Zach Attack! is a collection of six scratch-off board games. Yes, you read that right: scratch-offs, except designed by puzzle master Zach Barth. Even when the individual titles don't totally land, they're fascinating. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/20/z...
Scratch & Sniffle
Now here’s something I haven’t seen before: a collection of six scratch-off board games designed by puzzle master Zach Barth. That’s a sentence that keeps getting more intriguing …
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January 21, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Zach Attack! is a collection of six scratch-off board games. Yes, you read that right: scratch-offs, except designed by puzzle master Zach Barth. Even when the individual titles don't totally land, they're fascinating. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/20/z...
Do something twice and it becomes a tradition. Once again, I had my daughter write up her favorite games of the year. Come see which titles appeal to a twelve-year-old. spacebiff.com/2026/01/19/c...
Cate’s Favorite Games of 2025
Hi! My name is Cate. This is my selection of my favorite ten games from last year.
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January 20, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Do something twice and it becomes a tradition. Once again, I had my daughter write up her favorite games of the year. Come see which titles appeal to a twelve-year-old. spacebiff.com/2026/01/19/c...
Surviving current events through board games. What did you play this past week?
January 19, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Surviving current events through board games. What did you play this past week?
I've been playing a lot of Ball x Pit, a fascinating little game that's constantly reinventing itself.
On the surface, it's a brick-breaker. But one character turns it into a idler game; another into a turn-based game. Others alter how the rules for the balls work.
On the surface, it's a brick-breaker. But one character turns it into a idler game; another into a turn-based game. Others alter how the rules for the balls work.
January 15, 2026 at 11:23 PM
I've been playing a lot of Ball x Pit, a fascinating little game that's constantly reinventing itself.
On the surface, it's a brick-breaker. But one character turns it into a idler game; another into a turn-based game. Others alter how the rules for the balls work.
On the surface, it's a brick-breaker. But one character turns it into a idler game; another into a turn-based game. Others alter how the rules for the balls work.
Just received my second email from a very concerned reader trying to save my soul.
Sigh.
Sigh.
January 14, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Just received my second email from a very concerned reader trying to save my soul.
Sigh.
Sigh.
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I was able to play this one with Dan, and—sharing a similar background with my faith—a lot of Dan’s thoughts resonate with mine here. Overall, Keep the Faith provided me with a fun intellectual exercise and thoughtful experience that kept me pondering well after we put the game away.
Keep the Faith is a hybrid tabletop/roleplaying game by @gregisonthego.bsky.social that explores a religion in transition. As if there were any other kind! My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/13/k...
Faith in Crisis/Transition/Expansion
It’s hard, maybe impossible, to not put yourself into Keep the Faith, the latest board game by Greg Loring-Albright. Going in, I always tell myself the same thing. This time, I say, the relig…
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January 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
I was able to play this one with Dan, and—sharing a similar background with my faith—a lot of Dan’s thoughts resonate with mine here. Overall, Keep the Faith provided me with a fun intellectual exercise and thoughtful experience that kept me pondering well after we put the game away.
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Thank you so much to @danthurot.bsky.social for taking the time to play Keep the Faith! Read the review here: spacebiff.com/2026/01/13/k...
#spacebiff #keepthefaithgame #gamereview #newtabletopgames #tabletopgames #cmichpress
#spacebiff #keepthefaithgame #gamereview #newtabletopgames #tabletopgames #cmichpress
January 14, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Thank you so much to @danthurot.bsky.social for taking the time to play Keep the Faith! Read the review here: spacebiff.com/2026/01/13/k...
#spacebiff #keepthefaithgame #gamereview #newtabletopgames #tabletopgames #cmichpress
#spacebiff #keepthefaithgame #gamereview #newtabletopgames #tabletopgames #cmichpress
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I’m floored by Dan’s thoughtful, thorny, personal engagement with Keep the Faith.
“As a historiographical toolkit, it’s without parallel. Just flipping through the cards is a useful exercise, demonstrating how faith and religion can intersect with things both large and benign”
Thank you!
“As a historiographical toolkit, it’s without parallel. Just flipping through the cards is a useful exercise, demonstrating how faith and religion can intersect with things both large and benign”
Thank you!
Keep the Faith is a hybrid tabletop/roleplaying game by @gregisonthego.bsky.social that explores a religion in transition. As if there were any other kind! My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/13/k...
Faith in Crisis/Transition/Expansion
It’s hard, maybe impossible, to not put yourself into Keep the Faith, the latest board game by Greg Loring-Albright. Going in, I always tell myself the same thing. This time, I say, the relig…
spacebiff.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:17 AM
I’m floored by Dan’s thoughtful, thorny, personal engagement with Keep the Faith.
“As a historiographical toolkit, it’s without parallel. Just flipping through the cards is a useful exercise, demonstrating how faith and religion can intersect with things both large and benign”
Thank you!
“As a historiographical toolkit, it’s without parallel. Just flipping through the cards is a useful exercise, demonstrating how faith and religion can intersect with things both large and benign”
Thank you!
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Haven spoken to @gregisonthego.bsky.social about an early version of this game (and played it with him), I think he will be thrilled to the gills over Dan's fruitful ambivalence.
Keep the Faith is a hybrid tabletop/roleplaying game by @gregisonthego.bsky.social that explores a religion in transition. As if there were any other kind! My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/13/k...
Faith in Crisis/Transition/Expansion
It’s hard, maybe impossible, to not put yourself into Keep the Faith, the latest board game by Greg Loring-Albright. Going in, I always tell myself the same thing. This time, I say, the relig…
spacebiff.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Haven spoken to @gregisonthego.bsky.social about an early version of this game (and played it with him), I think he will be thrilled to the gills over Dan's fruitful ambivalence.
Keep the Faith is a hybrid tabletop/roleplaying game by @gregisonthego.bsky.social that explores a religion in transition. As if there were any other kind! My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/13/k...
Faith in Crisis/Transition/Expansion
It’s hard, maybe impossible, to not put yourself into Keep the Faith, the latest board game by Greg Loring-Albright. Going in, I always tell myself the same thing. This time, I say, the relig…
spacebiff.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Keep the Faith is a hybrid tabletop/roleplaying game by @gregisonthego.bsky.social that explores a religion in transition. As if there were any other kind! My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/13/k...
I don't know why every other month I wake up and think, "You know what? Why don't we write something today that will bring in the nasty emails?"
January 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
I don't know why every other month I wake up and think, "You know what? Why don't we write something today that will bring in the nasty emails?"
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Your regular reminder that you can in fact tackle sensitive and thorny political and societal issues with board games and they can even be fun to play, only thing is you need to actually give it some thought, care and attention
January 13, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Your regular reminder that you can in fact tackle sensitive and thorny political and societal issues with board games and they can even be fun to play, only thing is you need to actually give it some thought, care and attention
Celestia isn't my favorite press-your-luck game, but its emphasis on bluffing gives it a distinct tone from many of its peers. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/12/c...
Technically, It’s a Rigid Airship
Aaron Weissblum’s Celestia is one of those games I’ve wanted to play again, if only out of curiosity. Cloud 9, the title it reimplements, originally hit shelves way back in 1999, the to…
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January 13, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Celestia isn't my favorite press-your-luck game, but its emphasis on bluffing gives it a distinct tone from many of its peers. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/12/c...
Uh oh, somebody on BGG reached out for advice on how to become a better reviewer.
Quick, somebody gimme something useful to say.
Quick, somebody gimme something useful to say.
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Uh oh, somebody on BGG reached out for advice on how to become a better reviewer.
Quick, somebody gimme something useful to say.
Quick, somebody gimme something useful to say.
Deep breath. Despite the week itself being stressful, we took solace with friends and family at the table. What did you play this past week?
January 12, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Deep breath. Despite the week itself being stressful, we took solace with friends and family at the table. What did you play this past week?
A Very Civil Whist is @fredserval.bsky.social's take on the English Civil War and trick-taking. This one is excellent. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/09/a...
A Rather Whistful War
Fred Serval, one of wargaming’s great rabble-rousers, has a new game out. It might not sound like a new game, since I covered it a year and a halfish ago, but that was a convention freebie th…
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January 10, 2026 at 1:49 AM
A Very Civil Whist is @fredserval.bsky.social's take on the English Civil War and trick-taking. This one is excellent. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/09/a...
Supporters on Patreon can now read my annual movie rundown. What I watched, what I thought, and what I think I'll keep watching for years to come. www.patreon.com/posts/147836...
One Movie After Another | Dan Thurot
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January 9, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Supporters on Patreon can now read my annual movie rundown. What I watched, what I thought, and what I think I'll keep watching for years to come. www.patreon.com/posts/147836...
Division M is exactly the expansion I wanted for Agent Avenue, broadening the game's possibility space with a single card. Okay, multiple copies of a single card, but still. spacebiff.com/2026/01/08/a...
No More Mr. Mice Guy
Sometimes one card makes all the difference. When I played Agent Avenue last year, I found it sharp but perhaps a millimeter thinner than I would like, resulting in an affinity for the four-player …
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January 8, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Division M is exactly the expansion I wanted for Agent Avenue, broadening the game's possibility space with a single card. Okay, multiple copies of a single card, but still. spacebiff.com/2026/01/08/a...
Yubibo is an excellent ten-minute dexterity game, especially if you want to discover which of your friends have little regard for the collective. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/07/y...
Yub Nub
Yubibo exists to reveal which member of your group has selfish proprioception, a sentence I never could have conceptualized until I experienced a friend, with a dozen sticks poised between his fing…
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January 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Yubibo is an excellent ten-minute dexterity game, especially if you want to discover which of your friends have little regard for the collective. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/07/y...
Explorers of Navoria is pretty and spills out such regular rewards that it's easy to overlook how few calories those rewards contain. A breezy and enjoyable game, but not an especially interesting one. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/06/e...
Movin’ Up an’ Down Again
For all that board games thrive on taking us to new places, exploration is surprisingly hard to do well. Explorers of Navoria, designed by Meng Chunlin, is a prime example. Set in a colorful world …
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January 7, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Explorers of Navoria is pretty and spills out such regular rewards that it's easy to overlook how few calories those rewards contain. A breezy and enjoyable game, but not an especially interesting one. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/06/e...
I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Steve Dee, @tinstargames.bsky.social. I didn't know Steve personally, but his small-box game The Rent was affecting and worthwhile. I'll reshare my review for those who never knew him. Rest in peace, Steve. spacebiff.com/2022/10/31/t...
Strangling on Bootstraps
There’s this adage our mission mom used to tell us. This was prior to 2019, when a mission president’s wife finally became an official calling rather than one inequality among countless others. She…
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January 5, 2026 at 7:02 PM
I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Steve Dee, @tinstargames.bsky.social. I didn't know Steve personally, but his small-box game The Rent was affecting and worthwhile. I'll reshare my review for those who never knew him. Rest in peace, Steve. spacebiff.com/2022/10/31/t...
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It was a lovely first week of the new year, at least where my tabletop was concerned. What did you play to ring in the New Year?
January 5, 2026 at 6:37 PM
👀 🫶
It was a lovely first week of the new year, at least where my tabletop was concerned. What did you play to ring in the New Year?
January 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
It was a lovely first week of the new year, at least where my tabletop was concerned. What did you play to ring in the New Year?
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was reading an interview a website did with @danthurot.bsky.social last year and was surprised to find myself mentioned & was delighted by how I was described
January 2, 2026 at 12:20 PM
was reading an interview a website did with @danthurot.bsky.social last year and was surprised to find myself mentioned & was delighted by how I was described