[EXIT: The Circus Mystery review] if you don't solve this one you're getting clowned while getting clowned and that's just sad

[EXIT Family: The Mystery at Meanstone Manor / The Caper at Candy Castle review] It's just an EXIT kind of week what can I tell you

[EXIT Kids: The Great Bee-scape Review] I like that they went with The Great Bee-scape like that's a pun or something It brings the right kind of energy

[MicroMacro Kids: Crazy City Park Review] if you play this with your kids they're micro and you're macro it's funny

[Forest Shuffle Dartmoor review] if you're a weird bog person or you just LIKE bogs, do I have a review for you

[Petiquette review] animals? with hats? if that doesn't hook you not much will.

prepare for me to get extremely annoying about this game _in particular_

I had some extra time to do a few things I had been meaning to do, so I also added two more hubs to my website! First up is Great First Board Games! Featuring: - specifically NOT the term "gateway"! - a hot take about Azul - good games to enter the hobby with whatsericplaying.com/great-first-...

Wizard was my first introduction to trick-taking (well, outside of Hearts). Then Skull King came along and said to Wizard: “hold my beer”. I like them both, and I think a lot of trick taking fans will dig Skull King if they try it. Eric breaks down why you might want to give it a shot:

me, at two o'clock in the morning: have you updated your About Page on your website at any point in the last ... decade also me: shit with love, please enjoy even more about me: whatsericplaying.com/about/

[Tower of Doubt review] found some more Funbrick games from itten so immediately jumped on reviewing them

[Skull King 2E review] yar har fiddle-dee-dee trick-taking games are a favorite genre (pronounced wildly incorrectly to preserve the rhyme)

[Barbecubes review] little cubey meats

[Animal Upon Animal review] look if animals weren't fundamentally stackable, then this wouldn't be nearly as fun

aaand with this I'm back to my social media pseudo-exile yeehaw, friends

Emerging from my social media exile for ... two days to do things, but since I'm already updating one website I might as well update the other. What's Eric Playing? has a new feature; let's dig into it. (Thread)

[Symbiosis review] frogs and snails? in one game? some of y'all are going to go absolutely nuts for this one

[Rollie review] I was going to call it a roll-view but I think that joke was only funny to me

[Symbiosis review] frogs and snails? in one game? some of y'all are going to go absolutely nuts for this one

[Astro Rove preview] a little review for one of my favorite little robots

[TRND review] for all the jokes i make about the hyperspecificity of this game's vintage chair focus, you'd think i'd have something funnier to say here

[EXIT: Adventures in Catan review] Nobody expects the EXIT crossover

CATAN: Soccer Fever [Expansion] Let the sickness take hold of you in CATAN: Soccer Fever, a silly expansion to a classic game that adds just enough whimsy to keep it around 8.5 / 10

[bullseye review] I've been on a bit of a party game train the last few weeks; just roll with it.

[Mythical Dice review] [mini] I didn't immediately realize this was a retheme of Skull King: The Dice Game and that's on me

[The Same Game review] ironically, if you play it twice in a row it won't be the same game at all

[Ichor review] it's only ichor if i win, otherwise it's youchor

[Red Letter, Yellow Letter review] seriously though how many candy bars can you name that start with an H but don't contain an E

[Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends review][micro] turns out the real-m fantasy was the greek we legendsed along the way, i'm pretty sure

[Wriggle Roulette review] it's the eel deal, folks

[Iliad review] another problem that can be solved with a giant mostly-empty horse, I guess

[7 Wonder Dice review] are there seven 7 Wonders games yet http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/02/23/7-wonders-dice/

[Forage preview] mushrooms! http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/02/23/forage/

[Glimmerdeep review] engine-building? flip-and-write? why not both? http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/02/16/glimmerdeep/

[Honeypot review] secret agent bears secret agent bears they're not particularly subtle http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/02/16/honeypot/

[The Daily Weather preview] i feel like posting a photo of this game to instagram with the audio from "it's raining men" was very funny, so I'm glad I did that http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/02/09/the-daily-weather/

[Logic & Lore: Variance review] i mean, it adds dice; dice are fun http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/02/09/logic-lore-variance/

[Botswana review] unfortunately you can tell that I used to work in computers by the way I keep reflexively trying to capitalize safari http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/02/02/botswana/

[In Front of the Elevators review] The second-most fun you'll have successfully cutting in line the first most is just cutting in line; thrilling http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/02/02/in-front-of-the-elevators/

[Burgle Bros. Blackjack review] you got burgle bros in my blackjack you got blackjack in my burgle bros and that's great http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/01/26/burgle-bros-blackjack/

[Splendor Kids review] even the kids these days can have splendor http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/01/26/splendor-kids/

[Downtown Las Palmas review] /mobster voice/ he's got the whole town in his hand guy turns around in seat revealing Downtown Las Palmas http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/01/19/downtown-las-palmas/

[Up or Down? review] the most fun you'll have in an elevator without hitting any buttons http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/01/19/up-or-down/

[Leaders review] abstract strategy game with a little claw-wielding menace? very in. http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/01/12/leaders/

[The Sandcastles of Burgundy Review] ain't no beach party like queen crab's beach party because queen crab's beach party is just an unbelievable amount of sand http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/01/12/the-sandcastles-of-burgundy/

[A Dragon's Gift preview] the real presents were the dragons we gifted along the way, probably http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/01/05/a-dragons-gift/

[Cat's Gambit: Queen Aurelia review] you gotta protect her meowjesty http://whatsericplaying.com/2026/01/05/cats-gambit-queen-aurelia/

[Bombastic review] look, making tic-tac-toe fun is difficult and should be celebrated. http://whatsericplaying.com/2025/12/29/bombastic/

[Super Meow review] I don't really have any cat puns stored up for this one, whoops blame the holidays http://whatsericplaying.com/2025/12/29/super-meow/