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Matt Wolfe
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Board game designer. I’m not the AI guy.
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October plays! Highlights were Saltfjord and Teotihuacan.
BG Stats 5 x 5. Play count: 3: Keyflower; 3: Teotihuacan: City of Gods; 3: Viscounts of the West Kingdom; 2: Agent Avenue; 1: Age of Comics: The Golden Years; 1: Biblios; 1: Big Sur; 1: FlipToons; 1: Magical Athlete (454103); 1: Nicodemus; 1: Pick-a-Pepper; 1: RA and Write; 1: Ruins; 1: Saltfjord; 1: Sea Salt & Paper; 1: Solarius Mission; 1: Spectacular; 1: Surf's Up!; 1: Sweet Lands; 1: Tiny Epic Dinosaurs; 1: Trinket Trove.
November 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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OK, I guess Savannah is pretty.
October 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Savannah has a random Earth.
Giant metal Earth near a Starbucks.
October 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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September plays! Highlights were Wizard Community College, Galaxy Trucker, and Hot Streak.
BG Stats 5 x 5. Play count: 2: Beasts; 2: First Contact; 2: Secret Identity; 2: Wine Cellar; 1: ANTS; 1: Baby Party; 1: Baseball Highlights: 2045 – Bases Loaded Edition; 1: Bonsai; 1: Citizens of the Spark; 1: FlipToons; 1: French Toast; 1: Galaxy Trucker: Anniversary Edition; 1: Gibberers; 1: Hot Streak; 1: Just One; 1: Kuhhandel Master; 1: Maple Valley; 1: March of the Ants: Evolved Edition; 1: Molly House; 1: Pax Pamir: Second Edition; 1: A Place for All My Books; 1: Prophecy; 1: Pyramido; 1: Pyramido: Forgotten Treasures; 1: Really Bad Art. BG Stats 5 x 5. Play count: 1: The Same Game; 1: Tricky Kids; 1: Trinket Trove; 1: Tulip Bubble; 1: Venture Angels; 1: Via Magica; 1: VIVO; 1: Wizard Community College;
October 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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I love defacing games.
A egotist’s signature on the cover of Squaring Circleville.
September 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Cap(stone) Con day 1 has been fun!
Check-in table Giant Raising Chicago banner 😍
September 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Honorary Cincinnatian now.
A Skyline Chili cup
September 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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MEANWHILE, at the Hall of Justice.
Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio
September 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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August plays! Favorites were Embarcadero and Flower Fields.
BG Stats 5 x 5. Play count: 1: Binho Classic; 1: Bone Wars; 1: Café Baras; 1: Creature Comforts; 1: Doomlings; 1: Downforce; 1: Embarcadero; 1: Flower Fields; 1: Golpher; 1: Grand Central Skyport; 1: Hanabi; 1: Harmonies; 1: Maple Valley; 1: Pergamon; 1: Sand Art; 1: Similo; 1: Solar Gardens; 1: Traintopia; 1: Wrath of Fire Mountain.
September 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I use those photo boxes from Michael’s that go on sale every now and then.
August 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Nice beaver
Naked Gun popcorn bucket
August 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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July plays! Some real bangers in there.
BG Stats 5 x 5. Texas Showdown; Fantasy Realms; Hot Streak; Bid Coin; Bonfire; Cat Blues: The Big Gig; Coal Baron; Fairy Ring; Flip 7; Four Forests; Fromage; Grand Austria Hotel; Loot Dispute; MATRX GIPF; MLEM: Space Agency; Monumental; Picky Eaters; Raising Robots; Revive; Sagani; Scharfe Schoten; Spirit Path; That Escalated Quickly; Turnip; Vegas Strip.
August 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Finally found it at a FLGS. ❤️
Board game Raising Chicago on a shelf at Atomic Empire.
July 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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June plays! Apiary and Unconscious Mind were highlights.
BG Stats 4 x 4. Play count: 2: Hot Streak; 2: Unconscious Mind; 1: Adventure Time Love Letter; 1: Apiary; 1: Cooking Noodles; 1: Djinn; 1: Fishing; 1: Fresco: Big Box; 1: Money!; 1: Oddland; 1: Paper Trail; 1: Scream Park; 1: Thing Thing; 1: Zenith.
July 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Took all weekend to overhaul this prototype to send to the publisher. It’s a bit of a beast!
Waters of Europe board game prototype cover Waters of Europa board game prototype set up on a dark wood table.
June 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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May plays! Favorites were Wyrmspan and Hot Streak.
BG Stats 5 x 5. Play count: 1: 1902 Méliès; 1: Atlantis Exodus; 1: Dom Pierre; 1: Evacuation; 1: Everdell; 1: Four Forests; 1: From the Moon; 1: Full Throttle!; 1: Gachapon Trick; 1: Galactic Cruise; 1: Hot Streak; 1: Huh?; 1: Loot Dispute; 1: The Networks; 1: The Quacks Of Quedlinburg; 1: Rebuilding Seattle; 1: Shapers of Gaia; 1: Silver Eye; 1: Silver Fang; 1: Wyrmspan.
June 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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April plays! Eight of these are now on my trade pile.
BG Stats 4 x 4. Brian Boru: High King of Ireland; Cinque Terre; Critter Kitchen; Dawn of Mankind; Dice and Slice; Goblin Vaults; Idle Hands; Knarr; Last Resort; Monsters on Board; The Name of the Rose; Squaring Circleville; Stupor Mundi; Takenoko; Tofu Shifu; Urbify.
May 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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This is your fault, @dnlnwmn.bsky.social.
Nerds Gummy Clusters candy
April 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Raising Chicago board game
April 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Finally being cultured.
Program for H.M.S. Pinafore
April 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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River Surfers is a weird multi-lot auction game with a cascading bidding system. This one is the most raw and I'm looking forward to bashing on it and iterating it over the weekend.
Cover mock-up of River Surfers prototype.
March 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Rabbit Runners is a combo-driven push-your-luck deckbuilding game. This is the one I'm most excited about!
Cover mock-up for Rabbit Runners prototype.
March 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Excited for Unpub this weekend! Here are the main prototypes I'm focusing on testing:

Big Fish is a bluffing game where 1 player tries to figure out if everyone else is over or under the limit for the turn. If you feel like your hand is bad, that's OK, because everyone plays every hand!
Cover mock-up for Big Fish prototype.
March 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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February plays! Didn’t play a ton due to not feeling it given the state of things, but managed to play some gems.
BG Stats 4 x 4. Play count: 2: Mino Dice; 1: Asian Tigers: A Story of Prosperity; 1: Cities (2024); 1: Cockroach Poker; 1: League of Six; 1: Nanatoridori; 1: Neodreams; 1: Phoenix New Horizon; 1: Planta Nubo; 1: Port Royal: Big Box; 1: Prey; 1: Really Bad Art; 1: Rock Hard: 1977; 1: Ultimate Dibs; 1: Windmill Valley.
March 2, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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That was a really nice game day yesterday.
BG Stats Feb 1, 2025 - Feb 2, 2025 Plays: 8 H-index: 1 Games: 8 New: 3 Players: 10 Locations: 1 Mino Dice: 1 Neodreams: 1 Phoenix New Horizon: 1 Port Royal: Big Box: 1 Prey: 1 Really Bad Art: 1 Rock Hard: 1977: 1 Ultimate Dibs: 1 8 designers: Alexander Pfister: 12% Clarence Simpson: 12% Forrest-Pruzan Creative: 12% Ivan Lashin: 12% Jackie Fox: 12%.
February 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM