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Shreesh
@shreesh.bsky.social
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Board game designer.
I love climbing/shedding, and trick taking games.
vyntoo on BGG & Discord.
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A grey cat sleeping on a cat bed, facing away from a window. Sunlight is shining from above.
October 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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I got to play Orongo for the first time.
Got a standard game of Chutney in.
Got wrecked in 5p Papayoo.
2p Butterfly is my fav right now.
BG Stats Sep 23, 2025 - Sep 29, 2025 Plays: 12 H-index: 2 Games: 10 New: 2 Players: 22 Locations: 3 Castle Combo: 2 Crisps: 2 Butterfly: 1 Chutney: 1 Kingdom Builder: 1 Orongo: 1 Papayoo: 1 Shou Ba Yi: 1 Tichu: 1 8 designers: (Uncredited): 30% Shreesh Bhat: 20% Donald X. Vaccarino: 10% Grégory Grard: 10% Mathieu Roussel: 10%.
September 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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August plays
BG Stats 5 x 5. Play count: 11: Tichu; 6: Butterfly; 5: Crisps; 4: Chutney; 4: The Crew: Mission Deep Sea; 3: Chikki; 3: Dealt!; 3: The Gang; 2: Olenon; 2: Strike; 2: Trickarus; 1: 6 nimmt!; 1: Dou Dizhu; 1: ebbes; 1: Kanaloa; 1: Lanterns Dice: Lights in the Sky; 1: Lepidoptery; 1: Der letzte Panther; 1: No Loose Ends; 1: No Mercy; 1: Nokosu Dice; 1: Planet etuC; 1: Seven Prophecies; 1: Taj Mahal.
September 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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April 2025 plays ☺️
BG Stats Apr 2025 Plays: 108 H-index: 6 Games: 35 New: 1 Players: 114 Locations: 7 Tichu: 19 Crisps: 13 Castle Combo: 7 Chikki: 7 Rumble Nation (2017): 7 Onda: 5 Haggis: 4 Bag of Chips: 3 Kingdom Builder: 3 30 designers: Reiner Knizia: 22% (Uncredited): 8% Shreesh Bhat: 8% Adrian Adamescu: 2% Alex Fortineau: 2%.
May 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I playtested Chikki (my new 2p domino based climber) and lost a Tichu series 1-3. I wanna revisit Mlem soon.
BG Stats 3 x 3. Play count: 9: Tichu; 7: Chikki; 4: Crisps; 3: rumblenation; 2: Trickarus; 1: Castle Combo; 1: MLEM: Space Agency; 1: Onda; 1: Ra.
April 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Here’s a pic of it in action!
POV shot of vertically stacked dominoes on a purple tile holder and some tiles played to the middle of the table on a green topper. There’s a purple meeple bag to the side
April 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Hosted a game night at my place after few months.
We played Tichu, The Gang, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, Salvage, and Castle Combo
A POV shot of a hand of Tichu cards in front of a green table topper A POV shot of progress cards, power cards, and reference cards for The Gang A POV shot of a hand of cards for Salvage in front of a green table topper A teaching moment of Castle Combo, where 9 cards are laid out in a grid
March 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Happy to announce that Crisps! will be available for pre-order on June 1st via Little Dog Games (@dnlnwmn.bsky.social)
Art by @saibep.bsky.social
Box art for Crisps with an owl eating crisps on the bottom right corner and Crisps logo over potato crisps flying behind it with a purple background
March 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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January plays ☺️
BG Stats 3 x 3. Play count: 8: The Gang; 7: Tichu; 4: Dealt!; 3: Texas Showdown; 2: Savage Bowl: Trick Taking Game; 2: Spring Cleaning; 1: BUBBLE GUM; 1: Crisps; 1: Hachi Train.
February 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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In the last 7 days, I played Tichu, Crisps, Dealer’s dilemma, Savage Bowl, Texas showdown, and Who’s who.
Grid of 2 plays of Tichu, 1 play of Crisps, 1 play of Dealer’s dilemma, 1 play of Savage Bowl, 1 play of Texas showdown, and 1 play of Who’s who.
January 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Crisps is now available on BGA Beta!
BGA title cover photo of Crisps including announcement of Beta mode.
March 14, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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October plays 🥳
BG Stats 4 x 4. Play count: 5: Kingdom Builder; 5: No Mercy; 5: Texas Showdown; 5: ハーベスト (Harvest); 4: Yokai Septet; 3: Boast or Nothing; 3: Der letzte Panther; 3: Strike; 2: Ambiente Abissal; 2: Bacon; 2: Biblios; 2: Cat Poker; 2: Dealt!; 2: For Sale; 2: Greasy Spoon; 2: Inside Job.
November 2, 2023 at 5:12 AM
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Torite co (Trick taking by coffee) is an interesting hidden partnership trick taker. I didn’t particularly enjoy it at 4p but others really liked this one. 3p might be better for me. I also posted a variant to BGG that folks might prefer.
A player collected 9 coffee cards!! A hand of Torite co with the box on the background
October 29, 2023 at 2:57 PM
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Best candy on the block is always fun to introduce folks to (especially around Halloween time). Love the conversations it generates as folks recognize the different candies. The tummy ache rule is my fav here heh
A hand of Best candy on the block cards with a sour candy card on the right.
October 29, 2023 at 2:53 PM
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Inside job is a hoot! I gotta play it at 5p with more roles. I loved the way mission cards work in this game and how the trumps change each trick.

Highly recommended if you enjoy social deduction
A hand of Inside Job with yellow, green, blue, and pink suited cards. The role card is placed facedown with a person shushing on it. A spray of mission cards with 7 faceup indicating successful missions and 3 failures
October 29, 2023 at 2:50 PM
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Band of tricks is becoming my fav of the bunch. Delicious precision bidding!!
You have to predict not just tricks but how many in each suit as well. We did end with a tie and rock-paper-scissored to break it 😂
Round end state of Band of tricks where cubes are placed for tricks won for different suits A hand of cards of Band of tricks where metal suit is visible for the right most card
October 29, 2023 at 2:43 PM
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First up, we have Boast or Nothing! It’s a good intro to trick taking. Must win 2 tricks or no tricks. The simple twist of shifting suit hierarchy works nicely here!
Can’t wait for this to be reprinted. Also, checkout the wonderful artwork 😍
A red 9 about to be played in a trick of Boast or Nothing Endgame state of Boast or Nothing where Orange token won with purple trailing behind. Round reference and couple of yellow cards are splayed next to the scoring board. Beautiful purple player card marker where a cloud mascot is sitting down with a big moustache and red shoes. There’s also faint outlines of various objects in the background of the card.
October 29, 2023 at 2:39 PM
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Played Enemy Anemone, Scharfe Schoten, & Claim recently. All great games! 🤗
A hand of Enemy Anemone A hand of Scharfe Schoten A hand of Claim
October 12, 2023 at 10:10 PM
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Love it when I get to choose purple in a game and then ended up randomly drawing the purple color objective as well lol. Sadly, I missed to fill two spots cos I used up all the power tokens.
Sagrada by Adrian Adamescu & Daryl Andrews.
Endgame state of Sagrada with bunch of purple dice and 2 missing spots
September 6, 2023 at 9:48 PM
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We had a hype game of Tulpenfieber by Uwe Rosenberg, where my partner got to complete 3 in a row at the last level. We yelled as it happened. Can’t believe this game is rated so poorly on BGG.
Rolled 5 fours using 7 dice to win the game with 3 in a row at the last level in Tulpenfieber
September 6, 2023 at 9:44 PM
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Played The Lost Expedition by @peersylvester.bsky.social this weekend.
What a beautiful game! We ended up barely winning this one with my partner’s help.
Endgame state of The Lost Expedition where all 3 characters survived with a single health bar each and couple of dangerous cards ahead of us if we didn’t finish the game.
September 6, 2023 at 9:37 PM
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A hand of cards of Tricky time crisis and someone’s playing a card to the trick in the background. A hand of Planet etuC cards with a 3-3 number pair in the background
September 4, 2023 at 6:15 AM
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Played Angels & devils, Aurum, Mopsen, Tricky time crisis, & Planet etuC yesterday. All hits!! 😍🎉
A hand of cards of Angels and Devils and a scoreboard is in the background A hand of cards of Aurum and a gold card track is visible in the background Aurum’s trick play is in-progress with 1 & 3 gold cards collected from the POV A hand of cards of Mopsen with cute pug card artwork
September 4, 2023 at 6:13 AM
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I bought a t-shirt recently with an awesome combo: purple, cats, & non-binary flag colors 🥰
Selfie wearing a purple t-shirt and 4 cats with furs of non-binary flag colors (yellow, white, purple, and black)
August 13, 2023 at 7:04 AM
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Played Bremen, Trick Raiders, Aurum, & No mercy today ☺️
Bremen setup 4p Trick raiders in-progress. Bunch of faceup cards are visible on the table in front of the players with a hand of cards visible from the pov 3p Aurum in-progress. Hand of cards visible from the pov and gold cards are splayed on the table.
August 13, 2023 at 6:59 AM