When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%. phys.org/news/2025-11...

Sold!

UK Age of Steam Con day 1: England, Powerhouses of the North (con map), Aiaia.

Never a frown with golden brown.

Step into the Nineties! Highest Klaxx score on this machine in the world ever.

I've heard so much hype for this from various social circles over the past 10 years, I'll finally give the new edition of this game a chance. (And probably sell it when it doesn't live up to expectations.)

And she was awarded 2nd place in the National Best Hat Awards.

Happy 38th birthday, KNIGHTMARE, the hardest game show on television! In 1987, Treguard the Dungeon Master welcomed the first team of adventurers to his blue screen labyrinth. Losers didn’t just fail, they 'died': blades, spikes, and bottomless pits abounded. "Ooh, nasty..."

Stopped this "classic" by "Martin Wallace" from being sold too cheaply on eBay by buying it myself. There's some logic to this, I'm sure. At least it encouraged a post-storm walk to the post office in the sunshine.

La politique des trains.

Lots of folding today.

Thanks.

Pink Digestive biscuits are disgusting.

Stink for Wax?

A solid argument for beige.

The eyes say it all.

The 'new' game from Francis Tresham. I'm hoping it's as ridiculous as it sounds. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26...

Instantly Forgettable Civilisations.

"I'm sorry, Charlie Brown, but I guess I'll quit, too. It's hard to play on a team that always loses. It's depressing. I'm the kind who needs to win now and then. With you, it's different. I think you get sort of a neurotic pleasure out of losing all of the time." Charlie Brown's All Stars! (1966)

Lots of people complain about the size of the Chicago Express box, but it has enough empty space to store a few extra cube rail games inside.

Objects in the mirror.

Summer's here and what better time to promote the PnP files for Santa Claus Takes the Intercity? It’s a fast, fun, and free card game the whole family can enjoy, using the board from Dutch InterCity—that cube rail game no one ever wants to play with you.

Once again I have ordered a bunch of cubes and can no longer remember what they were for.

The Lego Batman Movie is still the best Batman movie.

I pulled off 3rd place in Giro Galoppo. Look at my cheery face.

Made it to Origins and got in a game of Power Grid. It was close with a 4 way tie powering 14 cities, but Craig got the win with the most money.

But I'm not shutting down, I'm shutting up. So you won't hear me when I say, "Everything's okay, I'll see you around."

We took a scenic train ride in Leadville, Colorado today.

Programmes for Schools and Colleges brought the fear in the Scarred For Life era. BIOLOGY (1975) gave schoolkids the ominous intro from Pink Floyd's 'Time' before confronting them with their own mortality, all in 60 seconds flat.

All the Cool Kids are wearing an Arado 234 from the hot card game, Panzerzug. Are you?

Gulf Mobile & Ohio: Germany increases the value of Presidential Expansion by decreasing the distance between cities and increasing the number of non-charter locations. But when players cannot charter a new railway company without first performing a suboptimal build, who will construct the track?

I was swept away by The Code (2024); a chaotic, dark romantic comedy which, in every element of its production, reflects the cluster bomb personality of its central protagonist, Celine.

Qwixx on a Train

Pax Planting and Ave Horsey.

Another time, Another Place.

Mobsters on the Transsiberian Railway. Rackets, theft and duels in the corridor coaches. Businessmen becoming ex-businessmen. All that kind of thing.

And it's all over. The 3rd Annual Winsome convention wrapped up at midnight, with one final game of Riding Through England to take me home. Expect a convention report? Maybe at some point. Give me a year to recover. A little more detail found in the link below. boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/356...

I made some edits to my Aiaia map for Age of Steam. I'm hoping to get it played this weekend. It's super ugly, but I have zero art talent and getting it to this point was a challenge.

Anyone want to play "Spiel des Jahres Comment Bingo"? (I have to admit, I'm guilty of saying some of these😊to myself sometimes). Well played, Hilko. lidude.net/sdj-comment-...

Nice charity shop find, Grandma.

Someone built a website and hosted it on an old smartphone. Then they hooked it up to some solar panels and put it up in the attic. You can visit this absolutely #solarpunk project here: https://compost.party/

The new SNCF map is really good! I joined Joshua and Hiro (Neon Comet Games), Craig and Dale (from The Train Rush), and Jon (Heavy Cardboard) to fine tune the 6 player end game trigger. I had some reservations: it adds a whole layer of rules thus making it the most complex of the expansions, but...

All ready for a blind playtest of SNCF: Keystone Connection. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44...

Don't hold back, World (you're holding back) The time has come to World (you're holding back) The time has come to World (you're holding back) The time has come to Urbanise

What a joy of an episode, what an odyssey of listening. As usual, you guys prove to be masters of the podcast medium, thanks for the journey.

Railheads: The Midwest. Some sleepy mistakes made, accidentally giving actions away, while playtesting a cube rails prototype. Stand-out features include an unique action economy and the industrial investments which provide an additional layer of decisions that affect the network-building.

Here are images of 'Mainline' by Francis Tresham, adapted for and played by post in the For Whom The Die Rolls zine between 2002-2003. We speak briefly about the lost game in our latest podcast. thetrainrush.com/2025/05/06/t...

New Pope, New Islands. (And a deal with the Bottle Imp, unseen below.)

What gives a board game a soul? We answer this question absolutely and definitively in our latest board game podcast about all things 18xx.

If you're into #boardgames and/or #18xx games, you should be listening to The Train Rush. It's the most consistently creative board game podcast I've found. The three part "We are hungry men" is fantastic. You need it in your ears.