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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

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: War of the Ring – Second Edition Designer: Roberto Di Meglio, Marco Maggi & Francesco Nepitello Year: 2011 Country: Italy Publisher: Ares Games War of the Ring is a big, sprawling two-player strategy game in which one player controls the Free Peoples and Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Tales from the Loop – The Board Game Designer: Rickard Antroia & Martin Takaichi Year: 2022 Country: Sweden Publisher: Fria ligan I’ve previously known the Swedish publisher Fria ligan for their roleplaying games, which have made them perhaps the best single roleplaying publisher Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Terraforming Mars Expansion: Prelude Designer: Jacob Fryxelius Year: 2016/2018 Country: Sweden Publisher: FryxGames I was coming home from the library recently, with a couple of different boardgames I was intending to try for this study project. The culture at our apartment building is extremely Continue Reading