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This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Hallertau Designer: Uwe Rosenberg Year: 2020 Country: Germany Publisher: Lookout Games Hallertau is not the first worker placement game from Uwe Rosenberg that I’ve played. Agricola and A Feast for Odin came before it, making what would have otherwise been a pretty complex Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: The Shakespeare Game Designer: Ellie Dix & Mandela Fernandez-Grandon Year: 2022 Country: U.K. Publisher: Laurence King Publishing Ltd The Shakespeare Game is a light boardgame in which every player is Shakespeare, in London to put on plays to make money and find success. Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: A Game of Thrones – The Card Game (Second Edition) Designer: Nate French & Eric M. Lang Year: 2015 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games One of the goals I have for this project is to understand boardgames broadly enough so that when Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Tigris & Euphrates Designer: Reiner Knizia Year: 1997 Country: Germany Publisher: Hans im Glück Before we’d played Tigris & Euphrates, a friend told me that it was a bit like chess in that you only grasp the possibility space and understand what can Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Great Western Trail – Argentina Designer: Alexander Pfister Year: 2022 Country: Austria Publisher: eggertspiele We played Great Western Trail earlier during this project and I quite liked it. It’s a variation on worker placement where instead of placing the workers in static locations, Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Tapestry Designer: Jamey Stegmaier Year: 2019 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Stonemaier Games Civilization games are an interesting genre in that the main touchstone is not a boardgame at all, but the venerable videogame series Civilization. It lays out the assumptions about how these games Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: A Feast for Odin Designer: Uwe Rosenberg Year: 2016 Country: Germany Publisher: Feuerland Spiele A Feast for Odin feels like a cathedral of work-placement design. It’s a game of huge scope and replayability simply because of the number of different tactics and pathways Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Marvel Champions: The Card Game Designer: Michael Boggs, Nate French & Caleb Grace Year: 2019 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games Fantasy Flight Games has a format called Living Card Game, an expandable system where you have a core set introducing the gameplay Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Lost Cities Designer: Reiner Knizia Year: 1999 Country: Germany Publisher: KOSMOS A two-player card game, Lost Cities is an interesting example of the relationship between the theme and the mechanics. Narratively speaking, each player mounts expeditions into various fabled lands, and the success Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Tokaido Designer: Antoine Bauza Year: 2012 Country: Ranska Publisher: Stonemaier Games Along with Azul, Tokaido is one of the games recommended to me when I asked people about beauty in boardgames. It’s a contemplative, simple game about traveling on Japan’s scenic East sea Continue Reading