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Professional translator with more board games than space, time and sense!
Got SO lucky with this card draw - it's the perfect match for this spirit! Now to gobble up those pesky Prussians...

#spiritisland #boardgames #boardgamesky
June 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Tom's excitement is my excitement 🤩
i have played a boatload of this remarkable game (the old king's crown) over the past couple weeks and i'm still coming back for more.

anticipating a frankly daft number of games before getting it filmed. it's an all-timer. ama etc... I Want To Yap
June 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I've heard great things, but my first play of Zhanguo didn't quite grab me as much as I was expecting it to. Hopefully I'll come to appreciate its intricacies with more plays under my belt (and not get utterly demolished in the final round like this time 🫣)

#boardgamesky #boardgame #china
June 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Just look at me monopolising the negotiations in Circadians: First Light 😏 Beat the bot so easily last time I thought I'd give it another go to see if it was a fluke - apparently not! On to hard mode it is 💪🏻

@garphillgames.bsky.social #boardgamesky #boardgame
June 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
One of my favourite board game feelings is when you introduce a game to someone and afterwards they immediately start Googling to see how much it costs 💓

And last night I scored a double whammy with Guards of Atlantis II and Decrypto 💓💓

#boardgame #boardgamesky
June 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Grrr as if I lost Dinogenics by 2 points to this hippie dippy herbivore park!

Although I guess it wasn't *that* hippie dippy - the stegosaurus did kill one of the guests after all 😅 Not very plant-based, not very demure...

#boardgamesky #boardgame #dinosaur
May 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I don't own many 'cosy' games (gimme blood and guts and fisticuffs) but Guild of Merchant Explorers is one of them and it feels like a cup of camomile tea in tabletop form

#boardgamesky
May 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Playing everything Spirit Island as a swan song to GtG 😢

This was one of those really satisfying smackdown turns with Thunderspeaker, but I still only squeaked a win thanks to a cheeky/cheaty retcon with my Fear cards to destroy the final Prussian city. Still gonna take it 😌

#boardgamesky
April 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Got my first ever board game translation project this week (I normally mostly work on video games) and I am TRÈS excited 🥳

#translator #boardgamesky
March 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
A great day of gaming with @boardgamewaffle.bsky.social and others, featuring not one but two of the hottest space games in recent months - Andromeda's Edge and SETI 🚀 In a surprise twist, I handily won AE and miserably lost SETI

#boardgamesky #boardgames
March 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
They've already gotten so much of my money, and soon they're gonna have more 😅 www.kickstarter.com/projects/min...

#mindclash #kickstarter #news #boardgame #boardgamesky
Coming soon: Trickerion – 10-year Anniversary Edition
Celebrating 10 years of magic with a brand-new expansion and a stunning edition of all Trickerion-related content.
www.kickstarter.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Isn't it simply DREADFUL when one hosts a big gay party and the bloody coppers show up?

Molly House from @wehrlegig.games is a tough teach, but the theme is so interesting and well implemented (and it's taught me a part of history I knew nothing about).

#boardgamesky #boardgame #queer
March 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This really gets my goat - you raise nearly $1 million and don't wanna pay for a professional editor? I looked at a random page and spotted 5 mistakes myself - and no I'm not gonna leave any comments thankyouverymuch

#hireapro #freelancer #ks #boardgame
March 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Get the 7.30 train to Airecon, it won't be that bad, I thought. WHAT AN IDIOT
March 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
What do we think about this? My initial instinct is "Oh I would play one of my tini plastic mini violins, but they're being held ransom unless I pay additional shipping fees", but maybe this spells trouble for the industry in general?

#boardgame #boardgamesky #news
Board game crowdfunding major CMON issues profit warning, says losses could exceed $2m for 2024 due to cost of living crisis impacting revenue:

boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
March 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
My dream (half) came true and I played Netrunner last night - only for my corp to lose without scoring a single agenda 🤦🏼 At one point I had 3 credits, 4 agendas in my hand and no affordable ice, so it was kinda inevitable... Redemption tonight for sho!

#netrunner #boardgame #boardgamesky #cardgame
March 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
You know you have a bit of a problem when you just discover a playmat you didn't even know you had 🙃
#boardgamesky #boardgame
March 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Had a dream last night that I was teaching Netrunner to Frasier Crane and all the attendees of one of his dinner parties. It could just be a product of all this Arctic air, but I think it actually means I really wanna play Netrunner

#boardgamesky #netrunner @netrunner.nullsignal.games
March 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Reposted by Gaming Overboard
In memory of Steve Jones, a longstanding member of the UK Gaming community who passed away earlier this year, Gaming Rules! has arranged a charity fundraiser for Cancer Research UK where you could win a deluxe copy of Galactic Cruise. 1/2
February 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Get to know your moots (I had to Google it, it means 'mutual followers' for all you fellow fuddy-duddies)

10 things I like:

🎲Board game weekends
🗣️Foreign languages
🎹Piano
🍺Proper beer
💂🏻Living in London
🌌Sci-fi novels
📽️Films that make me cry
🎾Tennis
🍾Getting drunk in hot tubs
🎭Theatre
February 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Had it been 3 months since our last play of Clank Legacy? Yes. Had we forgotten most of the story and new rules? Yes. Did we have a blast? Yes! Is my Maleficent dragon my favourite paint job? I love all my children equally (but also yes)

@direwolfdigital.bsky.social #boardgamesky #boardgame
February 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
As an Instagram escapee, one of my favourite things about @bsky.app is how, instead of being force-fed insipid reels and endless ads, I am now being exposed to some truly excellent writing. Long may it continue 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
February 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Space-Biff at his absolute best. Now to try and snag myself a copy of this game...
Molly House is a strange and meaningful beast, at once a celebration of queer love, a critique of imperial power, and a call to solidarity. More than that, it is a game that can't help but be personally meaningful to the lonesome and tired. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/02/12/m...
Love and Heartbreak in Georgian London
As a second-grader, I despised recess. Not because I enjoyed class — it was boring and tedious, hemmed in by schedules and busywork — but rather because I was lonely. Some people don’t unders…
spacebiff.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Once again, worm-infused alcohol has proven to be my undoing 🤦🏼 First time solo'ing the excellent Distilled by @paverson.bsky.social and I really should have paid more attention to the future objectives as well as the current ones...

#boardgame #boardgamesky #liquor
February 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I'm just punching Bitoku and also want to punch whoever decided that a game with 50 million components doesn't need an insert and can make do with 10 baggies

#boardgame #boardgamesky #petpeeve
February 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM