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The Grand Trunk Journey by Claude Sirois from @ulible.bsky.social with art by Harald Lieske is great fun, isn't it? I can't believe I haven't played it until now. 😃👍 #boardgames #TrainGames
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The Grand Trunk Journey by Claude Sirois from @ulible.bsky.social with art by Harald Lieske is great fun, isn't it? I can't believe I haven't played it until now. 😃👍 #boardgames #TrainGames
I love it when publishers put paper belly bands around decks of cards, like here in Battalion: War of the Ancients by Paolo Mori and Francesco Sirocchi from @ospreygames.bsky.social with art by the wonderful @rolandsrevenge.bsky.social. 🙂👍 #boardgames #sustainability
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I love it when publishers put paper belly bands around decks of cards, like here in Battalion: War of the Ancients by Paolo Mori and Francesco Sirocchi from @ospreygames.bsky.social with art by the wonderful @rolandsrevenge.bsky.social. 🙂👍 #boardgames #sustainability
Ayar by @flopiano.bsky.social and @mandelafg.bsky.social from @ospreygames.bsky.social with art by @ianotoole.bsky.social is a real point salad. You can’t do everything and need to keep two score tracks in balance all at the same time. I’m quite enjoying it. 🙂👍 #boardgames
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Ayar by @flopiano.bsky.social and @mandelafg.bsky.social from @ospreygames.bsky.social with art by @ianotoole.bsky.social is a real point salad. You can’t do everything and need to keep two score tracks in balance all at the same time. I’m quite enjoying it. 🙂👍 #boardgames
The Druids of Edora by Stefan Feld from Alea is a fun point salad of resource management and dice placement and various other mechanisms. Unfortunately, the English rulebook is awful. I had to revert to the German one to make sense of it all. 😕👍 #boardgame
November 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The Druids of Edora by Stefan Feld from Alea is a fun point salad of resource management and dice placement and various other mechanisms. Unfortunately, the English rulebook is awful. I had to revert to the German one to make sense of it all. 😕👍 #boardgame
Can’t Stop by Sid Sackson is always fun, but the Sain-Am Peak edition from Platye makes the game extra special. Staying with the theme of mountain climbing, we decided to follow up with Tranquility: The Ascent by James Emmerson from @luckduckgames.bsky.social. 😃👍 #boardgames
October 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Can’t Stop by Sid Sackson is always fun, but the Sain-Am Peak edition from Platye makes the game extra special. Staying with the theme of mountain climbing, we decided to follow up with Tranquility: The Ascent by James Emmerson from @luckduckgames.bsky.social. 😃👍 #boardgames
Umami by Don Eskridge from @heidelbaer.de with art by Ikuko Nakai is rather cut throat, isn’t it? It looks so cutesy, but man, it’s brutal. 😲👍 #boardgames
October 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Umami by Don Eskridge from @heidelbaer.de with art by Ikuko Nakai is rather cut throat, isn’t it? It looks so cutesy, but man, it’s brutal. 😲👍 #boardgames
Yay! I got my copy of Night Soil by Jon Moffat from @grailgames.bsky.social with art by Jesse Gillespie. Such a sh*t game! 😂👍 #boardgames
October 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Yay! I got my copy of Night Soil by Jon Moffat from @grailgames.bsky.social with art by Jesse Gillespie. Such a sh*t game! 😂👍 #boardgames
So… I got my Monopoly anniversary coin. 😃👍 #boardgames
October 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
So… I got my Monopoly anniversary coin. 😃👍 #boardgames
Well, time for something different. I've not played choose-your-own-adventure games for a pretty long time. So it's nice to get a review demo copy of Legion of the Necromancer by James Isaacs and James Gill from Hammerforge Chronicles. It'll be a nice change to the review schedule... 😊👍 #boardgames
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Well, time for something different. I've not played choose-your-own-adventure games for a pretty long time. So it's nice to get a review demo copy of Legion of the Necromancer by James Isaacs and James Gill from Hammerforge Chronicles. It'll be a nice change to the review schedule... 😊👍 #boardgames
Question: why do you read/watch/listen to board game reviews? What are your top 5 (or so) motivations? What do you want from a review? Please answer below and reshare. Thank you. 🙂👍 #boardgames #question (Photo by Marcos Luiz Photograph on Unsplash)
October 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Question: why do you read/watch/listen to board game reviews? What are your top 5 (or so) motivations? What do you want from a review? Please answer below and reshare. Thank you. 🙂👍 #boardgames #question (Photo by Marcos Luiz Photograph on Unsplash)
I recently got my review copy of The Druids of Edora by Stefan Feld from Ravensburger with art by Fred Gissubel. I have a feeling, this is my first ever Stefan Feld game, so that's one thing I'll tick off my to-do list. Review in due course... 😀👍 #boardgames #ReviewCopies
October 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I recently got my review copy of The Druids of Edora by Stefan Feld from Ravensburger with art by Fred Gissubel. I have a feeling, this is my first ever Stefan Feld game, so that's one thing I'll tick off my to-do list. Review in due course... 😀👍 #boardgames #ReviewCopies
Well, well, well... got some lovely little review copies delivered recently: Umami and Frank's Zoo from @heidelbaer.de and the @doomlings.bsky.social expansion packs Shadow Puppets and Castle Glass. 😊👍 #boardgames #ReviewCopies
October 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Well, well, well... got some lovely little review copies delivered recently: Umami and Frank's Zoo from @heidelbaer.de and the @doomlings.bsky.social expansion packs Shadow Puppets and Castle Glass. 😊👍 #boardgames #ReviewCopies
Wow! What an amazing delivery! Thank you so much to New Mill Games for this great package of trick-taking/shedding games for review. Can't wait to play them - and, of course, review them in due course. I feel very honoured. 😊👍 @dnlnwmn.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Wow! What an amazing delivery! Thank you so much to New Mill Games for this great package of trick-taking/shedding games for review. Can't wait to play them - and, of course, review them in due course. I feel very honoured. 😊👍 @dnlnwmn.bsky.social
It’s weird when not one, but two crowdfunding projects arrive on the same day. Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcome! from Liberation Game Design and Habemus Papam from @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social. 😃👍 #boardgames #HistoricalGames
September 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It’s weird when not one, but two crowdfunding projects arrive on the same day. Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcome! from Liberation Game Design and Habemus Papam from @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social. 😃👍 #boardgames #HistoricalGames
🎲🧵 My goal: reach 25 paid supporters by the end of November, more than double the 10 current supporters. At the £1 Shining Light level, it adds £15/month. If every new supporter joins at £2.50 Dice Master, it's £37.50/month. But why should you care? (Photo by Neil Thomas on Unsplash) 1/5
September 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🎲🧵 My goal: reach 25 paid supporters by the end of November, more than double the 10 current supporters. At the £1 Shining Light level, it adds £15/month. If every new supporter joins at £2.50 Dice Master, it's £37.50/month. But why should you care? (Photo by Neil Thomas on Unsplash) 1/5
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Game art: Sengoku Jidai. 😃👍 #boardgames #art
September 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Game art: Sengoku Jidai. 😃👍 #boardgames #art
Played my first game of General Orders: Sengoku Jidai by @djackthompson.bsky.social and @trevormbenjamin.bsky.social with my daughter. She won on the tie breaker. Such a compact, but deep game. Thank you for the reveiw copy, @ospreygames.bsky.social. Review to follow. 😃👍 #ProudDad #boardgames
September 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Played my first game of General Orders: Sengoku Jidai by @djackthompson.bsky.social and @trevormbenjamin.bsky.social with my daughter. She won on the tie breaker. Such a compact, but deep game. Thank you for the reveiw copy, @ospreygames.bsky.social. Review to follow. 😃👍 #ProudDad #boardgames
You know you’re travelling from a German airport when the duty free sells games. 😃👍 #boardgames #airports
September 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
You know you’re travelling from a German airport when the duty free sells games. 😃👍 #boardgames #airports
We won Tranquility: The Descent from Wayfarer Games for the first time. We had one card left. It was super close and we felt so good. That’s all on the “basic” settings. We’re now going to introduce some extra bits to make it a little harder. 😃👍 #boardgames #CardGames #CoopGames
September 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We won Tranquility: The Descent from Wayfarer Games for the first time. We had one card left. It was super close and we felt so good. That’s all on the “basic” settings. We’re now going to introduce some extra bits to make it a little harder. 😃👍 #boardgames #CardGames #CoopGames
We played our first game of Tranquility: The Descent, the latest game in the series fromWayfarer Games, the other day. We got quite far, but didn’t win, as you would expect from a good cooperative game. It’s not only beautifully illustrated but also captivating to play. Review in due course. 😃👍
September 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
We played our first game of Tranquility: The Descent, the latest game in the series fromWayfarer Games, the other day. We got quite far, but didn’t win, as you would expect from a good cooperative game. It’s not only beautifully illustrated but also captivating to play. Review in due course. 😃👍
Got an evening postal delivery, which was a pleasant surprise. My review copy of Ayar: Children of the Sun by Mandela Fernandez-Grandon and Fabio Lopiano from @ospreygames.bsky.social with art by Ian O’Toole arrived. It looks so good and the mix of mechanisms are exciting. 😃👍 #boardgames
August 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Got an evening postal delivery, which was a pleasant surprise. My review copy of Ayar: Children of the Sun by Mandela Fernandez-Grandon and Fabio Lopiano from @ospreygames.bsky.social with art by Ian O’Toole arrived. It looks so good and the mix of mechanisms are exciting. 😃👍 #boardgames
Mug check - aka face verification 😂
August 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Mug check - aka face verification 😂
Yay! I got my prototype copy of Tranquility: The Descent from Wayfarer Games for review. Can't wait to play this! I've still got its predecessor, Tranquility: The Ascent to review as well. They're both quite different games, but they both sound interesting. 😃👍 #boardgames
August 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Yay! I got my prototype copy of Tranquility: The Descent from Wayfarer Games for review. Can't wait to play this! I've still got its predecessor, Tranquility: The Ascent to review as well. They're both quite different games, but they both sound interesting. 😃👍 #boardgames
Yay! Got my review copy of Wyrmspan from @stonemaiergames.com. I love that the card decks are wrapped in paper and not plastic shrink wrap. Like I wrote about in a recent article: tabletopgamesblog.com/2025/08/05/s... #boardgames 😃👍
August 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Yay! Got my review copy of Wyrmspan from @stonemaiergames.com. I love that the card decks are wrapped in paper and not plastic shrink wrap. Like I wrote about in a recent article: tabletopgamesblog.com/2025/08/05/s... #boardgames 😃👍