• Flock Together! Seven Happy Players Spot Hawks, Pigeons

    Flock Together!  Seven Happy Players Spot Hawks, Pigeons

    Way back in ye olden days, I backed a little game called Birds of a Feather: Western North America. Ye olden days were last year, for the record, and I was neck deep in bird watching, a hobby I picked up during the pandemic as a way to not go crazy being stuck indoors and

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  • Extended Top 100 Games: What’s the Rest?

    Extended Top 100 Games: What’s the Rest?

    This post is gonna be a huge friggin list. In case you were curious, and because I spent hours ranking my board games, I figured I’d share the rest of the list, from 101 to 240. Some of these games I’ve gotten rid of since I ranked my collection in July 2022. I’ll note them

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  • Happy New Year!

    Happy New Year!

    Here’s to more gaming and more writing in 2023! Thanks for being a part of my 2022, and I hope you’ll join me in the new year. ~Justin

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  • Top 100 Board Games: 10-1

    Top 100 Board Games: 10-1

    Hey hey and holy shit! We’re finally here! Welcome to the top 10 of my favorite games of all time. This list has been going so long that this entry was a surprise, even to me. Welcome! Get comfy and settle in. We’re at the tippy top of this tower of terrific tabletop games! What

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  • More 2022 Wrap-up: Games I Missed

    More 2022 Wrap-up: Games I Missed

    The end of the year is a great time for making lists.  I’ve seen a ton of 2022 top game lists this month, and I realized that I haven’t played many games that were released this year.  In fact, only 9 of this year’s games hit my table. Bottom to top, these include Skull Canyon

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  • Top 100 Board Games: 20-11

    Top 100 Board Games: 20-11

    We’ve reached the top 20 games of my list.  Hooo weeee.  There are some great games on this list, and I can’t wait to tell you about them.  These titles are pretty well cemented in my list, and I don’t expect them to change from this chunk very soon.  Join me for this penultimate list,

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  • 2022 Wrap-up: New to the Table

    2022 Wrap-up: New to the Table

    Every year I set a goal for myself that pertains to the year. I started this in 2020, setting the goal to play 20 new-to-me games and read 20 new-to-me books during the year. In 2021 it was 21 of each. This year it was 22 of each. We’re not going to discuss the books

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  • Top 100 Board Games: 30-21

    Top 100 Board Games: 30-21

    It’s been a bit since my last entry. I’m still working on it, but sometimes life just gets in the way. I’m gonna try to commit to a schedule in the future as a new year’s resolution, but I don’t know what that’s gonna look like. Anyway, you’re not here for that. Check out this

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  • The Yearly Cull

    The Yearly Cull

    If you’ve been playing and buying board games consistently for a while, you’ve probably run into a familiar problem: NO MORE SPACE! It’s one of the scariest thing you can run into in a hobby, especially if you cohabitate and can’t just leave stacks of boxes all over the place. It becomes necessary, at some

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  • Top 100 Board Games: 40-31

    Top 100 Board Games: 40-31

    Here we go again! The next ten titles cover everything from party games to card games to heavy euros, nature games to economic simulations to themeless masterpieces. It’s all here. See how it unfolds below. #40 Dream CrushBGG Rank: 4630Plays: 3My Rating: 8BGG Rating: 5.739User Avg Rating: 7.2 I say this with deadly seriousness: If

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