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This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Gift Trap Designer: Nick Keller Year: 2006 Country: U.K. Publisher: GiftTRAP Enterprises Gift Trap is a very seasonally appropriate party game in which you win by choosing the right gifts for your friends and also by being obvious about what sort of gifts Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Zombicide: 2nd Edition Designer: Raphaël Guiton, Jean-Baptiste Lullien & Nicolas Raoult Year: 2021 Country: France Publisher: CMON The first Zombicide game I’ve played was Undead or Alive, but I wanted to try out the base game as well just to get a feel Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Slay the Spire: The Board Game Designer: Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti & Casey Yano Year: 2024 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Contention Games Slay the Spire is a 2019 digital game, a roguelike deckbuilder in which you play a fantasy hero trying to ascent a Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Terra Mystica Designer: Jens Drögemüller & Helge Ostertag Year: 2012 Country: Germany Publisher: Feuerland Spiele There are two types of games, those which incorporate luck and those where the players have access to full information about every aspect at all times. Most hobby Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Agricola (Revised Edition) Designer: Uwe Rosenberg Year: 2016 Country: Germany Publisher: Lautapelit.fi One of the criteria I have for choosing specific games is if they come up in discussions about boardgames as examples or benchmarks. Agricola is one such game. I’ve seen it Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Unfathomable Expansion: From the Abyss Designer: Tony Fanchi/Alexandar Ortloff-Tang Year: 2021/2024 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games Unfathomable is a reimplementation of the boardgame Battlestar Galactica which I played recently as part of this study project. With Battlestar Galactica, it looks like the Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Blood on the Clocktower Designer: Steven Medway Year: 2022 Country: Australia Publisher: The Pandemonium Institute At this point, In should mention that for the purposes of my study project, the definition of a boardgame is: I realize the usefulness of this definition is Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Great Western Trail Designer: Alexander Pfister Year: 2016 Country: Austria Publisher: eggertspiele I’ve played several worker placement games, but in the phrase of a “how to play” video I watched, Great Western Trail is a worker movement game. The players are ranchers in Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Heroquest Designer: Stephen Baker Year: 1989/2020 Country: U.K. Publisher: Milton Bradley & Games Workshop / Avalon Hill Everybody’s seen the video about how HeroQuest is the best game ever made, right? And it’s all true, every word of it. I first played HeroQuest Continue Reading