Blogs about Board games

A decade ago, I wrote a post about soccer board games... so, with the US Men's team playing Uruguay tonight and both US men and women playing in the Olympics later this month, I figured …

This year, Ropecon is a week earlier than usual. The reason is boring: Coldplay is coming to Helsinki on the usual Ropecon weekend and gobbles up all hotel capacity. Ropecon took evasive action. We’re here …

The Game Skyrise is an auction game with a spatial element. It is a reimplementation of Metropolys, which was first published in 2008. I own Metropolys, and find it a fine game. Skyrise is a …

Next Station: Paris Designer: Matthew Dunstan Publisher: blue orange Players: 1-4 Age: 8+ Time: 20-30 minutes Amazon affiliate link Played with review copy provided by blue orange USA Become the best metro network planner Paris …

Because I play so many board games, sometimes this funny thing happens where I’ll experience a game and its source material out of order. Last night, for example, I watched my first episode of The …

Have you ever thought about the effects of pollution in medieval Italy? I sure hadn’t. But Joris and Jeroen – better known as Dutch design duo / boutique publisher Splotter Spellen – definitely have! And …

Got in a second game of ’22 PNW this weekend (which I also played at HeavyCon). We used the starting packet variant to speed up the game and it undoubtedly did, saving an hour or …

Ever since the double-whammy of ‘having kids’ and ‘global pandemic’, I haven’t been going to board game nights at game stores that much. To regain some of my exposure to new game releases, I tend …