It was deeply gratifying to have my work mentioned in this. I stumbled into board games via a handful of things discovered at the same time, in a Baader-Meinhof way; one of those was BGwS, a series that was incredibly important to me. I don't think I would be here without Board Games with Scott.

Had a @hollandspiele.bsky.social game night yesterday. Striking Flint by @johndubois.bsky.social was really good, even though our strike got busted. Ten Dollar Words is going to become one of my favorite @amabel.bsky.social games, I can feel it.

The furnace broke. It's very cold, so we're having a sale on an appropriately chilly game!

Heck yes! Amabel is talking about one of my favorite subjects in tabletop production (and, to be honest, even design): boxes and what they say.

Amabel's latest video is a fantastic watch, with great personality and cadence, leaving me wishing there was more, as with her other videos. For transparency, I've been a patron of Amabel's and customer of Hollandspiele a long time, and been enjoying the great products of both.

I like this video for a lot of reasons — the shade over the new Meltwater edition is *perfect* — but foremost among them is the fact that I once wrote an article about "The Board Game Box Review." It was a surprising breakout moment for my goofball site. And this is so much better than that.

A little bit for everyone: some CMYK, some Chudyk, some frowny Euros. Topped with a deeper look at why Meltwater is such an important game and what that means in the context of the new edition.

Another INCREDIBLE video from Amabel. If you’re even mildly interested in board games her channel (and her games at Hollandspiel!) are essential

An interesting, thoughtful video about an under appreciated aspect of board game design and publication.

We accidentally had an Amabel Holland night at our board game meetup last night. We played Dual Gauge: Honshu, cross4 (my final board pictured below), and Hartfield. These three games are nothing alike. #boardgames @amabel.bsky.social @hollandspiele.bsky.social

Let's talk about board game boxes and their role in selling a game, framing and contextualizing the experience, and creating meaning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...

I was really tempted to get my first hexes and counters but financial wisdom prevailed so made my modest little order to support a publisher I love. I am very curious about Hartfield!! big recommend for Endurance and Heading Forward and This Guilty Land and Comet oh and Striking Flint! also

Welp been meaning to get Endurance for awhile and I love Persuasion so this was an easy yes. Check them out and order some truly unique games.

I'm going all early 19th century this year with Prelude to Leipzig and Persuasion. If you want to check out some of the most compelling designs out there, do yourself a favor and check out the Hollandspiele catalog!

@amabel.bsky.social makes the most thought provoking and innovative games. Few publishers have a catalogue as rich and stacked with gems. I've lost count of how many Hollandspiele games I've played that have floored me with their inventiveness.

4 days left of this great sale from one of the best publishers around! I ordered Oblique, City of Six Moons, and a Table Battles expansion. I definitely recommend Table Battles and the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and I feel safe recommending everything else in their catalogue.

sale's on! hollandspiele.com

Go buy some @hollandspiele.bsky.social board games. They’re weird and fun and iconoclastic and a little punk rock. And it’s their annual sale right now. #boardgames

Many people wait until our sale to pick up some of our newest titles. In that spirit, let's take a look at the seven games @hollandspiele.bsky.social and I have published in 2025! 🧵

starting work on the card art for PREPOTENT, my long-delayed horse-breeding, -racing, and -betting game.

one thing that's interesting is that having anything on the back of the box is a relatively recent phenomenon - becoming commonplace just in the last 40 years or so. Many games prior to the 1980s had entirely blank box backs definitely cases where I have been tempted myself...

New game day! Belinda's Big Bonus is now available. Cookware not included.

So excited to crack open my shiny new copy of 'Cardboard Ghosts' by @amabel.bsky.social. I'm keen to see how her ideas on metaphor, immersion and agency might translate to classroom play experiences... particuarly with her commentary on several of @colewehrle.bsky.social's historical games.

LOOKING FOR AN INDIGENOUS COLLABORATOR 🧵 I'm planning a video essay on the Billy Jack films, particularly focusing on Trial of Billy Jack & its angry panorama of 1970s political activism - police brutality, penal reform, Viet Nam, Kent State - it kinda has everything & I wanna dig into that.

hey, let's learn how the heck I made a Belinda Blinked game www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSNp...

I think this is my favorite rules thread title

I need to take a break between stints at the Six Moons Wood Bits factory, so let's play a solo game of my new release cross4. Game continues until I can't place valid words. +1 pt per word, -1 per blank, +1 for J, Q, W, X, Z appearing in 2 words. M/W and N/Z are the same face. Turn 1!

rulebook is now up on BGG for anyone who's been wondering, "how the hell did she make a Belinda Blinked game?" boardgamegeek.com/filepage/308...

New game day! cross4! Buy it or else. We have not determined what 'else' is yet, but you should buy it to be safe.

I haven't done a game design thread in a bit, and I just got the final proof cards for BELINDA'S BIG BONUS, so let's talk about the exclusives that come with the deluxe "Belinkers Edition". 🧵

The Aurora Plastics Corporation, later Aurora Products, was known for their slot cars and licensed model kits. But the publication of a board game would change everything. youtu.be/TH3QT05C25w

Cooling off.. 😅

now that we're clearing out the backlog, I've updated the schedule for the rest of the year, and am preparing for our first new release since May. Unfortunately Rayroads gets pushed to 2026 as a result but I promise it will be worth the wait.

Doubt is our Product changed the way I think about games forever. Nicaea is wild to bring out with people who have never played a Hollandspiele, and I'm sure the rest are awesome too. If you haven't tried one yet, now's a great time to jump in.

Nicaea is hilarious even if you never play it (guilty). Endurance is an amazing historical retelling. Doubt Is Our Product is not just a great commentary on the subject, but a really solid super-asymmetric.

Nine years of Hollandspiele! Thank you for supporting us. We're having a flash sale now through Sunday, offering a $9 discount on five of Amabel's games.

Hollandspiele is at this moment working on the backlog of orders for Amabel's City of Six Moons. Once we're caught up, we'll have a better idea of the exact release date for BELINDA'S BIG BONUS. But we expect it to be in September or October.

Our lids were sealed; but like the Duchess, we promised we'd come clean! Coming this fall;; BELINDA'S BIG BONUS - a BELINDA BLINKED game - is the first board game based on the books by @flintstonerocky.bsky.social enjoyed by "Belinkers" around the globe. 🧵for details 🧵

My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #41: Sarmatia from The Wars of Marcus Aurelius: Rome 170-180CE from @hollandspiele.bsky.social theplayersaid.com/2025/07/22/m...

Does your hat have a bit of an attitude? Does it think too highly of itself? Does your hat need to be taken down a peg or two? Just show it this photo, it will ruin your hat's self-worth. THIS is a hat. Jessie Matthews in the musical "Evergreen" (1930)

Czech poster for GODZILLA, 1956.

Our unboxing video for Comet: Allied Airman Rescue in World War II from @hollandspiele.bsky.social theplayersaid.com/2025/07/06/u...

Yesterday we had a fantastic game of Supply Lines of the American Revolution by @hollandspiele.bsky.social. In this game, as soon as the treaty of alliance is signed with France, the Patriot wins an immediate victory. #DidYouSayThankYouOnce?

Happy Independence Day! Gaming the American Revolution – Ranking the Games We Have Played – 2025 Edition with games from @gmtgames.bsky.social, @compassgamesllc, @Academy_Games, @worth2004, @hollandspiele.bsky.social RBM Studio and more. theplayersaid.com/2025/07/04/g...

Don’t know what to say about this review, other than I’m appreciative of people like Dan, who engage with games deeply. He words much about my game better than I ever could have. I especially love this line: “This one is angry, polemical, slapdash, and wholly on-point.”

Sykes-Picot is a trick-taker and area control game from @rollplusfun.bsky.social and @amabel.bsky.social. As a trick-taker, it has some stark limitations — but those limitations are also what makes it sing as a historical corrective. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/06/16/s...

City of Six Moons, a game whose explicit intention is for you to play it wrong many times before (maybe) playing it correctly, was made with me as its target audience. Thank you @hollandspiele.bsky.social

Our video review for Striking Flint: The 1937 UAW Sit-Down Strike in Flint, Michigan from @hollandspiele.bsky.social theplayersaid.com/2025/06/15/v...

By random chance I decided to put an order to Second Chance Games 2 days before the @shutupshow.bsky.social video dropped. I count myself lucky. Also I am really really excited for Eyelet, I think I was lucky to get the last copy. Great stuff from @hollandspiele.bsky.social and @amabel.bsky.social.