Blogs about Board games

Over the past couple of months, I've written a number of posts about the multitude of reasons I believe that President-elect Trump is a spectacularly bad choice to lead the United States for the next …

I’ve played 186 games of Forest Shuffle this year. I like it a lot. Here are some new games I’ve played during the past few months. Fishing. Friedemann Friese’s latest curious trick-taking game is a …

The Game Radlands is a two-player head-to-head card game by Australian designer Daniel Piechnick. Set in an apocalyptic future (think Mad Max), you are rival tribes trying to exterminate each other. You win by destroying …

Designer: George Halkias, Konstantinos Karagiannis Publisher: Capstone, DLP Players: 1-4 Age: 14+ Time: 90 minutes Played with a copy I purchased myself Welcome to the legendary island world of Atlantis. You’ve arrived just before it …

One of my favorite subgenres of speculative fiction is the first contact story. Whether it’s the (hideously misguided) Prime Directive of Star Trek, the mimicked conversations in Blindsight, or the failed Christian witness of The …

When a friend asked me whether I could pick up a copy of Asian Tigers for them while I was at SPIEL Essen 2024, my first thought was: why haven’t I heard about this game? …

Even at matchpoints, going -1100 is usually a disaster (unless there is an obvious making slam the other way). But at least at matchpoints the loss is capped at a single board. Playing in one …

Over the last few days, I’ve released my Top 2024 Games Of All Time, At Least In My Opinion, At Least Right Now. This year, I decided to release the list primarily on BlueSky, with …