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This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Hnefatafl Designer: Unknown Year: 400 CE Country: Nordics Publisher: History Craft Ltd Hnefatafl, also known as the Viking Game and King’s Table, is a Northern European boardgame played roughly between the 5th and 18th centuries. Or so I’m reading on Wikipedia, but in Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: The Royal Game of Ur Designer: Unknown Year: 2500 BC Country: Sumeria Publisher: The British Museum Let’s go old school! The Royal Game of Ur is a boardgame played in ancient Mesopotamia and which spread all over the world. The version I have Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Ark Nova Designer: Mathias Wigge Year: 2021 Country: Germany Publisher: Feuerland Spiele According to Boardgamegeek, Ark Nova is the third best boardgame in the world, sharing the top of the ranking list with other similarly complex games. The players run rival zoos, seeking Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Spirit Island Designer: R. Eric Reuss Year: 2017 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Greater Than Games In terms of the ideas it explores, Spirit Island feels like an antidote to games like Settles of Catan. You play as a mighty nature spirit guarding an island Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Alien: Fate of the Nostromo Designer: Scott Rogers Year: 2021 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Ravensburger Ordinarily, when I see a boardgame based on a geek license, I make a series of assumptions. It’s going to be a reskin of some other game with the Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: The Castles of Burgundy Designer: Stefan Feld Year: 2019 Country: France Publisher: Alea The Castles of Burgundy is a classic Eurogame originally published in 2011. It’s a resource management game where each player has a mini-board of their own where they collect resources Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Zombicide: Undead or Alive Designer: Raphaël Guiton, Jean-Baptiste Lullien & Nicolas Raoult Year: 2022 Country: France Publisher: Guillotine Games / CMON Zombicide: Undead or Alive is a Western-themed iteration of the popular zombie killing game Zombicide. The reason I wanted to play it Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Brass: Birmingham Designer: Matt Tolman, Martin Wallace & Gavan Brown Year: 2018 Country: U.K./Canada Publisher: Roxley I define “aspiring boardgaming” as a hobby where you buy boardgames with the hope of one day playing them, without actually ever Continue Reading