For Immediate Release, April 1, 2026 **Cheapass Games breaks ground on Cretaceous-era dinosaur theme park** (View full press release in the alt-text! 😊) 🦀 ♟ 🦀

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We are spending this next week getting ready for the GAMA trade show in Louisville, starting March 1st. This is our best opportunity all year to meet in person with our game designer and publisher friends! 🦀 😁 #GAMA #GAMATradeShow

We are spending this next week getting ready for the GAMA trade show in Louisville, starting March 1st. This is our best opportunity all year to meet in person with our game designer and publisher friends! 🦀 😁 #GAMA #GAMATradeShow

Ryan Dancey, a more than 30-year veteran of the tabletop gaming industry, has lost his COO job at publisher AEG a day after saying AI could generate game ideas as good as his company’s titles Tiny Towns and Cubitos: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

For even more Cheapass Games and Crab Fragment-y goodness, sign up on our Patreon - we have multiple levels, from free up to "we'll mail you a game every month or two"! patreon.com/crabfragment

New newsletter time! Make sure we're not getting shunted to your spam folder (add carol - @ - crabfragmentlabs.com to your contact list). And if you haven't subscribed yet, go to the site and look in the footer! crabfragmentlabs.com/campaigns/vi...

Watch the video! 😊 🦀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdVs... Then pick up our new Cheapass Game, Meat on Swords - with or without the custom coasters! - at our shop: crabfragmentlabs.com/shop/p/meat-...

Check out this thorough review of Stamp Showdown on #BGG: 😊 boardgamegeek.com/thread/36536...

Read our latest newsletter here! Our new Cheapass Games title, Meat on Swords, is back in stock. See what happens when our classic zombies are running a Brazilian steakhouse. 🥩🥓🍖🥓😊 crabfragmentlabs.com/campaigns/vi...

Now live! A game by James Ernest, coming out from our friends at Four Suit Studio: 😊 www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...

Ooh look, a press release! graphicpolicy.com/2026/01/16/c...

We are seeking a new publisher to make a retail-shelf edition of Tak. We are also officially licensing to folks who want to make & sell boutique editions. Get in touch! See alt-text for more details.

We brought in a modest batch of decks to start, and I shipped the last 2 out this afternoon! Nice that they’re print-on-demand. 😁 www.drivethrucards.com/en/product/5...

Coming soon: Stamp Showdown, new game by James, from Four Suit Studio. Sign up here to get notified when the campaign goes live! ♣️ ♦️ ♥️ ♠️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...

We've got a new newsletter up - and a new Cheapass Game title available! Meat on Swords decks are currently for sale at DriveThruCards, while we await our next shipment - our first batch sold out in one day. 😁 We do have coaster sets available! crabfragmentlabs.com/campaigns/vi...

Timeline cleanse: the kindest town in North America is at it again.

A little teaser for a James-designed game. 😁 Sign-up for updates here: foursuitstudio.com/stamp-showdo...

Read James' latest blog post, in which he attempts to sum up a very busy year! 😅 🦀 😁 crabfragmentlabs.com/blog-1/2025-...

I messed about with the new Cheapass game Meat on Swords. Like some of James Ernest’s best design work it’s delightfully simplistic, made exciting through push your luck mechanics that are always happy to give you enough rope to hang yourself. Glad I jumped on the @crabfragment.bsky.social Patreon!

James Ernest has recapped his PAX Unplugged. Check out the video, featuring many industry friends! 😁 🦀 😁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNyt...

Have a Very Merry December! 😊 All the seasonal best to you, from your friends at Cheapass Games and Crab Fragment Labs! 🦀 ♟ 🦀 ♟ 🦀 crabfragmentlabs.com/campaigns/vi...

Games night - and nothing quite like opening a brand new (20 year old!) Cheapass games, taping boards and releasing Death Machine-cut cards from their time-capsule-like strips of old magazines! Only a few left to cross the pond for my collection… until the new ones hit! @crabfragment.bsky.social

Here's our Holiday Update! Free to read on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/holida...?

We just backed Bolted! A Frankenstein-Style Game of Creative Necromancy on @kickstarter.com, by our good friend @davidmalki.com! Check it out: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mal...

Happy Small Business Saturday! We still have one Linos set left (pronounced "lin-Ohsh") from the most recent batch. We also have a variety of Tablero and Tak/Prudh boards, as well as Tak books, coins and piece-sets. And as always, lots of .pdf and POD games! crabfragmentlabs.com/shop 🦀 😊 🦀

PuzzCulture included some of our games in their gift guide! Have a scroll. 😊 🎄 🦀 🎄 puzzculture.com/2025/11/25/p...

We met with James Ernest (@crabfragment.bsky.social) at Tabletop Oahu, and were able to play some of his fantastic games. We spoke about our recent partnership with local schools in Hawaii, providing them with pupumu to play Konane! You can check out his vlog here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPG2...

Here’s our Crab Fragment Labs Patreon, which supports us in creating an amazing array of tabletop board games. 🦀 Keep up with the latest from designer James Ernest (the creator of Cheapass Games, including Kill Doctor Lucky and Tak). 🦀 www.patreon.com/crabfragment

James Ernest and Crab Fragment have Regained Ownership of Cheapass Games #tabletopgames #boardgames

At Crab Fragment/Cheapass Games, we offer original print ‘n play tabletop games (free, unless you feel inspired!), as well as print-on-demand, and a small supply of game accessories and lovingly handcrafted pieces. We even have some Tak! Find it all here: crabfragmentlabs.com/shop

We've got cool stuff. And I will carefully wrap it up and mail it to you! I'm particularly fond of James' new batch of 6x6 game boards - suitable for playing Tak, or Prudh!

Gamer friends! We have a new section up in our store, featuring our #Tak accessories. We have boards, piece packs, tokens and even copies of the original Tak Companion Book available. The holidays are rapidly approaching - are you ready? 🎁 🤔 😁 crabfragmentlabs.com/shop/tak-acc...

We've got some of James' handcrafted boards in the shop right now. Very limited quantities, since James has to squeeze in his crafting time between inventing new games and traveling to shows. 😁 Treat yourself to a Tablero set! crabfragmentlabs.com/shop/from-th...

For the last few months, I've been selling tabletop games at general - not geek or gaming - markets through Cardboard Monster. Here's what I've learned about selling games to people who don't think they like games:

Check out James' recap of this year's GenCon! Marvel at his gap-toothed smile! 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSbN...

All the latest news from Crab Fragment, now officially #CheapassGames also! We're announcing a new Patreon level, for wonderful folks who want to support the studio, and also receive new or newly-resuscitated games in their mailbox from time to time. 🦀 😁 🦀 crabfragmentlabs.com/campaigns/vi...

Now that #CheapassGames has come back home to us entirely, we're exploring options for getting the best games back into print. Top of the list is #Tak. The retail editions have been unavailable for too long! Let us know what you'd like to see in a new boxed set! crabfragmentlabs.com/tak

The Cheapass Games catalog has officially come home! 🦀 😊 🦀 Perhaps some of our primordial games will now escape the bounds of Cheapassic Park. 🦕 crabfragmentlabs.com/game-preserve

That book is amazing. If you game, you owe it to yourself to get unbelievable insight into everything Cheapass. A TON of cool games for mere dollars as well; deluxe boxed editions for paper envelope prices!

With Greater Than Games shuttered, the remaining games - including old Cheapass Games ♟- are on a very discounted sale. If you ever dreamed of owning the massive hardcover Cheapass tome, the last copies are going for only $15! 😮 Here: www.greaterthangames.com/collections/...

Happy Monday! James has quite a number of videos on designing games and prototyping, and we have collected them into a handy YouTube playlist. Check them out! 🦀😁 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A new Crab Fragment Labs newsletter! Remember: you can still print all of our games at home, or get print-on-demand card decks made here in the US. We are as tariff-proofed as can be. Share with friends, and please consider joining our Patreon! 😁 🦀 crabfragmentlabs.com/campaigns/vi...

Today I learned that James Ernest (@crabfragment.bsky.social) maintains a pdf library of original Cheapass Games that you can download for free 🤩🤩🤩 I bought a bunch of these in the original paper envelopes when they first came out almost 30 years ago, and they are still awesome to this day!

A recent article by James, answering questions from an aspiring game designer: 🦀♟️🙂 crabfragmentlabs.com/lecture-hall...

This post is somewhat belated, but here's our most recent newsletter, with new versions of games, new videos, and a schedule of James' upcoming travels! 🦀 😁 🦀 crabfragmentlabs.com/campaigns/vi...