Alex
@mollarom.bsky.social
Digital media specialist, website coder, gamer.
When my brother's in town, it's game time.
Innovation: I won
Fellowship of the Ring: we all lost
Cosmic Encounter: he won
Castles of Burgundy the card game: he won
#BoardGames
Innovation: I won
Fellowship of the Ring: we all lost
Cosmic Encounter: he won
Castles of Burgundy the card game: he won
#BoardGames
November 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
When my brother's in town, it's game time.
Innovation: I won
Fellowship of the Ring: we all lost
Cosmic Encounter: he won
Castles of Burgundy the card game: he won
#BoardGames
Innovation: I won
Fellowship of the Ring: we all lost
Cosmic Encounter: he won
Castles of Burgundy the card game: he won
#BoardGames
#BoardGames night: Escape Plan. Our second Lacerda game in as many weeks, and it's another banger. The cops are on to us. Scour the city, secure your stashed money, and GTFO with more cash than your fellow criminals. Much lighter weight than our usual fare, great theme, 9/10 for me.
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
#BoardGames night: Escape Plan. Our second Lacerda game in as many weeks, and it's another banger. The cops are on to us. Scour the city, secure your stashed money, and GTFO with more cash than your fellow criminals. Much lighter weight than our usual fare, great theme, 9/10 for me.
#boardgames night: Speakeasy with three players. Better worker placement than my beloved Dune Imperium? I'm not sure, but it's up there. Less cutthroat, no deck building, but much tighter. Every move counts, and there are no easy points.
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
#boardgames night: Speakeasy with three players. Better worker placement than my beloved Dune Imperium? I'm not sure, but it's up there. Less cutthroat, no deck building, but much tighter. Every move counts, and there are no easy points.
Played Cross Bronx Expressway and wow, that absolutely killed the considerable desire I had to own the game. Take a decent COIN game. Add unfun taxes at the end of every eight turns. Not too bad, right? Just a little upkeep? Sure. Now add player-triggered weaponized taxes. #boardgames
October 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Played Cross Bronx Expressway and wow, that absolutely killed the considerable desire I had to own the game. Take a decent COIN game. Add unfun taxes at the end of every eight turns. Not too bad, right? Just a little upkeep? Sure. Now add player-triggered weaponized taxes. #boardgames
#Boardgames lunch hour: Reign of Cthulu. Teach + victory in 40 minutes. Detective + Hunter + Driver.
September 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
#Boardgames lunch hour: Reign of Cthulu. Teach + victory in 40 minutes. Detective + Hunter + Driver.
September 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Introduced the crew to 23 Knives at #boardgames lunch hour. I think they liked it. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
September 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Introduced the crew to 23 Knives at #boardgames lunch hour. I think they liked it. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
September 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My August in #boardgames.
Highlight: Vijayanagara on Rally the Troops
I'd be okay never playing Ahoy, Kinfire Chronicles, Terraforming Mars and Pagan Fate of Roanoke again.
TM's popularity is inexplicable to me. Kinfire is just meh, and Ahoy's central conflict just doesn't intrigue me.
Highlight: Vijayanagara on Rally the Troops
I'd be okay never playing Ahoy, Kinfire Chronicles, Terraforming Mars and Pagan Fate of Roanoke again.
TM's popularity is inexplicable to me. Kinfire is just meh, and Ahoy's central conflict just doesn't intrigue me.
September 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
My August in #boardgames.
Highlight: Vijayanagara on Rally the Troops
I'd be okay never playing Ahoy, Kinfire Chronicles, Terraforming Mars and Pagan Fate of Roanoke again.
TM's popularity is inexplicable to me. Kinfire is just meh, and Ahoy's central conflict just doesn't intrigue me.
Highlight: Vijayanagara on Rally the Troops
I'd be okay never playing Ahoy, Kinfire Chronicles, Terraforming Mars and Pagan Fate of Roanoke again.
TM's popularity is inexplicable to me. Kinfire is just meh, and Ahoy's central conflict just doesn't intrigue me.
Yep. Snapped this on the way to a piano lesson. Thankfully I was inside when it hit. Strong winds, around half an inch of rain. Worst of it was done about an hour after this photo.
August 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Yep. Snapped this on the way to a piano lesson. Thankfully I was inside when it hit. Strong winds, around half an inch of rain. Worst of it was done about an hour after this photo.
#boardgames on the table this weekend: Hegemony (placed 2nd as the State) and Bloc by Bloc (solo defeat)
August 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
#boardgames on the table this weekend: Hegemony (placed 2nd as the State) and Bloc by Bloc (solo defeat)
#boardgames night: Kinfire Council. Very mid worker placement. If players start critically analyzing mechanisms during play, it's a sign they're not enjoying it. There's a way to score mega points, and once you figure that out, all other scoring methods seem like a waste of time and effort.
August 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
#boardgames night: Kinfire Council. Very mid worker placement. If players start critically analyzing mechanisms during play, it's a sign they're not enjoying it. There's a way to score mega points, and once you figure that out, all other scoring methods seem like a waste of time and effort.
My July in #BoardGames - definitely some that will be linked to certain life events.
Did we just become best friends? - Innovation
Too fiddly for my tastes - Clinic
Best game for a department meeting - Ready Set Bet
Worst game - Captain Tsubasa
#bgstats
Did we just become best friends? - Innovation
Too fiddly for my tastes - Clinic
Best game for a department meeting - Ready Set Bet
Worst game - Captain Tsubasa
#bgstats
August 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
My July in #BoardGames - definitely some that will be linked to certain life events.
Did we just become best friends? - Innovation
Too fiddly for my tastes - Clinic
Best game for a department meeting - Ready Set Bet
Worst game - Captain Tsubasa
#bgstats
Did we just become best friends? - Innovation
Too fiddly for my tastes - Clinic
Best game for a department meeting - Ready Set Bet
Worst game - Captain Tsubasa
#bgstats
#boardgames night - 7 Empires (from 1st place to 3rd due to two lost tiebreakers) and 23 Knives (Opportunists won, and I was not one of them)
July 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM
#boardgames night - 7 Empires (from 1st place to 3rd due to two lost tiebreakers) and 23 Knives (Opportunists won, and I was not one of them)
July 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
#boardgames night: Clinic. Compete for staff, patients and facilities while assembling your 3D clinic while tracking how much time it takes to go from one room to another while paying bills and making sure everyone has a parking spot because this is a transit-less dystopia.
July 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
#boardgames night: Clinic. Compete for staff, patients and facilities while assembling your 3D clinic while tracking how much time it takes to go from one room to another while paying bills and making sure everyone has a parking spot because this is a transit-less dystopia.
I won a 32-player Pax Pamir tournament on BGA! #boardgames
July 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I won a 32-player Pax Pamir tournament on BGA! #boardgames
Vikings #Boardgames night: Blood Rage (placed last of 4) and Brian Boru (placed third). First time playing both games.
July 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Vikings #Boardgames night: Blood Rage (placed last of 4) and Brian Boru (placed third). First time playing both games.
My July in #BoardGames
New discovery I can't get enough of: Lorenzo il Magnifico, Red Dust Rebellion
Cool, but I'll wait for the physical version: Fate of the Fellowship
Never again: Tower Up
New discovery I can't get enough of: Lorenzo il Magnifico, Red Dust Rebellion
Cool, but I'll wait for the physical version: Fate of the Fellowship
Never again: Tower Up
July 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My July in #BoardGames
New discovery I can't get enough of: Lorenzo il Magnifico, Red Dust Rebellion
Cool, but I'll wait for the physical version: Fate of the Fellowship
Never again: Tower Up
New discovery I can't get enough of: Lorenzo il Magnifico, Red Dust Rebellion
Cool, but I'll wait for the physical version: Fate of the Fellowship
Never again: Tower Up
#boardgames night: We finally were able to finish a six-player game of Dune Uprising. My team (Emperor) won despite the cavalcade of worms we faced. 💰> 🪱
June 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#boardgames night: We finally were able to finish a six-player game of Dune Uprising. My team (Emperor) won despite the cavalcade of worms we faced. 💰> 🪱
#boardgames night: Red Dust Rebellion. A learning session, so we only got up to the first Dust Storm. Really like it, though. Church of the Reclaimer FTW.
June 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
#boardgames night: Red Dust Rebellion. A learning session, so we only got up to the first Dust Storm. Really like it, though. Church of the Reclaimer FTW.
#boardgames night: Come Together.
Interesting game. Players are vying for 4 elements of a music festival: Acts, stages, audience members, and campgrounds. Campgrounds serve as an audience cap. Each act needs a stage and a number of fans of their genre to perform.
Interesting game. Players are vying for 4 elements of a music festival: Acts, stages, audience members, and campgrounds. Campgrounds serve as an audience cap. Each act needs a stage and a number of fans of their genre to perform.
June 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#boardgames night: Come Together.
Interesting game. Players are vying for 4 elements of a music festival: Acts, stages, audience members, and campgrounds. Campgrounds serve as an audience cap. Each act needs a stage and a number of fans of their genre to perform.
Interesting game. Players are vying for 4 elements of a music festival: Acts, stages, audience members, and campgrounds. Campgrounds serve as an audience cap. Each act needs a stage and a number of fans of their genre to perform.
Time to go to work. Big day today. New light rail extension is opening. I'm doing a terribly boring task for the opening, but as they say, "Do whatever it takes." (Just wish "whatever" was more interesting)
June 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Time to go to work. Big day today. New light rail extension is opening. I'm doing a terribly boring task for the opening, but as they say, "Do whatever it takes." (Just wish "whatever" was more interesting)
Eowyn and the Riders of Rohan kicking ass in Isengard.
We may lose hope some day... BUT IT WILL NOT BE THIS DAY.
(For those who don't know, this is Fate of the Fellowship on BGA, and that is a killer combat roll)
#BoardGames
We may lose hope some day... BUT IT WILL NOT BE THIS DAY.
(For those who don't know, this is Fate of the Fellowship on BGA, and that is a killer combat roll)
#BoardGames
June 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Eowyn and the Riders of Rohan kicking ass in Isengard.
We may lose hope some day... BUT IT WILL NOT BE THIS DAY.
(For those who don't know, this is Fate of the Fellowship on BGA, and that is a killer combat roll)
#BoardGames
We may lose hope some day... BUT IT WILL NOT BE THIS DAY.
(For those who don't know, this is Fate of the Fellowship on BGA, and that is a killer combat roll)
#BoardGames