Making Caramel is as close to playing chicken as I ever get. Cook it too far, burnt. Don't cook it enough, bland. You gotta get it juuuust right

Love a good audiobook and a drive

People ask me all the time, "How can I hide my latest board game from my wife? She says we need groceries, but I really want those sweet miniatures. I'll paint them someday, I swear." Well, I've got your back. Here's how to hide your board game purchases: spacebiff.com/2026/04/01/h...

Sometimes when my emotion tank is empty, I just drink and play Mega Man X

Walkable City has under 3 days remaining on Kickstarter! We've just about smashed our existing stretch goals to make the city more gorgeous and add some fancy destination meeples - Take a look at the campaign below! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...

My thoughts as I listen to this weeks Omnigamers Club Podcast. I literally have not played any games from either the Castlevania or Metroid franchise. It's a pretty big blind spot in my video game resume.

The teaser for that new Harry Potter series raises an intriguing question: can you still support a series if the creator is terrible, and the prequel movie series is terrible, and the sequel play is terrible, and the original movies are terrible, and the source material is terrible, and

Funding goals aren't real. They're purposefully listed low so they can advertise wild numbers like "funded in 10 minutes" and "5200% over the goal"

I was not prepared for the sheer number of cards in Vantage. Thanks to @stonemaiergames.com for sending me a copy!

I love introducing MicroMacro to new people. Seeing them excitedly pouring over the map and shouting "he's here! He's over here!!" just makes me smile. #boardgames

This is probably the closest I've ever gotten to a perfect Patchwork board #boardgames

Frosted Blooms uses foil on the tiles to accent the tulips. These are super attractive pieces! #boardgames

Fowers Games has made several of my favourite games, and their latest project (designed by Taylor Shuss @drawnonward.bsky.social) is on Kickstarter now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...

I haven't played The Castles of Burgundy in person in years! But tonight I get to introduce my mom to it! #boardgames

Playing Fiction with my mother. Isn't she a gem? #boardgames

Trio turns my brain into Swiss cheese. It should be a simple memory game, information is slowly revealed to everyone. But then that information can shift so you're stuck clutching your head trying to remember if you know what someone's lowest card is or not. It's pretty great #boardgames

For the Canadian board gamers, Shipping to B.C. was $9.00, which brings the total for both the game and meeple upgrade is $16.05 USD, which is about $22.17 CAD.

Jeepers, my library haul got a little out of hand

I've decided that bomb Busters is no longer a deduction game. it's a Vibes game We live or die by the based on The Vibes #boardgames

Mountain Goats by @allplay.bsky.social takes up a lot more table space than its small box would suggest #boardgames

Turing machine is a really interesting solo puzzle. But playing with other people is as interesting as two people solving separate Sudokus #boardgames

Playing Draft & Write Records from Inside Up Games! Probably one of my favourite "X and Write" games, because there's a few times throughout the game where you can hit the cascading bonuses, and that's the moment I love most about X and write games. #boardgames

It is perhaps fitting that the character I was the worst with in STS 1 is the first character I beat STS 2 with.

"We use a problematic plagiarism machine in every aspect of our creative work, but you can totally trust that we write the words. Definitely wouldn't use AI for that one aspect. We've already shown our integrity doesn't exist, but pinkie swear that the words we feed into the AI voiceover are real."

I literally went to Costco yesterday thinking of buying a switch 2, and when I saw the price tag was reminded why I hadn't already bought one.

Good bye, everyone. It's been nice knowing you.

In March I MUST play Board Games, as proclaimed by the King!

What a statement! This is what we like to see on a crowdfunding page @brotherminggames.bsky.social !! 💪 Fuck AI in boardgames and fuck those that use it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bro...

As much as I like the perks of emulation and playing with all kinds of different handhelds, nothing feels quite the same as playing a game in the hardware it was intended to be on.

Today's review is of Perch! The mean bird game! It's an area control game about total majorities and no mercy for ties, which created a fair amount of tension. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Check out my full thoughts here: meepleandthemoose.com/2026/02/28/p... #boardgames

I'm always happy when my monthly game count exceeds the 5x5 format #boardgames #bgstats

Today's review is of Perch! The mean bird game! It's an area control game about total majorities and no mercy for ties, which created a fair amount of tension. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Check out my full thoughts here: meepleandthemoose.com/2026/02/28/p... #boardgames

Pokemon Winds and Waves aren't coming until 2027, which is disappointing to me. But you know what's never disappointing? @boardgamefeast.bsky.social's birthday! Happy birthday Daniel, hope you have a good one!

I have an hour to kill, and I know I should be writing a board game review, or finishing up my FF9 playthrough. But all I want to do is play with trains! I have 350+ hours in Train Valley 2, and I still love the little puzzles to bits.

I want to enjoy Tainted Grail. I want to explore and adventure through The wyrdness of Kamelot. Instead we spent 3 hours grinding encounters to amass enough resources so we don't just die after lighting the next menhir. #boardgames

I quite enjoyed @brotherminggames.bsky.social's Re;Act. It had tight decision spaces and wild asymmetry, both great aspects for a 1v1 duelling game. Not to mention the production was slick as hell. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Re;Match does with the marble tower! #boardgames

I just realized that I replied to this post earlier instead of reposting it. I prefer most written reviews because they tend to provide more color and depth. Alex does such a great job here summarizing the rules and vibrantly conveying the experience of playing the game. Very much appreciated!

i think we all need to normalize just being comfortable with giving earnest compliments without weird caveats. if your friend does something cool, tell them it’s cool. i don’t necessarily thrive on compliments, but it does means a lot if a friend goes out of their way to say something kind to me.

Take Time has replaced The Crew as our end of game night play. We're silently sorting cards, but when the reveal happens and we've succeeded in making ascending piles of cards, it's euphoric. #boardgames

People tell me that using the phrase "Knife fight in a phone booth" is cliché. So, 3 Witches is more of a fist fight in a broom closet. Check out my full thoughts on 3 Witches, designed by @coreyyoung.com and published by @allplay.bsky.social meepleandthemoose.com/2026/02/21/3... #boardgames

For me - and I suspect most tabletop game designers 🎲✂️ - it's not about money or notoriety. It's about a making entertaining experiences for people who *really* get what you are doing. This review is just a delight. Punchy, quick, and insightful, not to mention flattering. Thank you so much Alex!

People tell me that using the phrase "Knife fight in a phone booth" is cliché. So, 3 Witches is more of a fist fight in a broom closet. Check out my full thoughts on 3 Witches, designed by @coreyyoung.com and published by @allplay.bsky.social meepleandthemoose.com/2026/02/21/3... #boardgames

Tearable Quest is a game about ripping your paper to shreds to complete recipes But you only have 2 minutes per round so be fast But you also have to be precise. Any icons not part of a recipe renders the piece ineligible for score And you only have 1 page for all 3 rounds Good luck! #boardgames

Illiterati feels a lot like cooperative Bananagrams. I know it's missing the crossword aspect, but that's the feeling Illiterati game me. And we love Bananagrams, so this was a huge hit for me and my group. #boardgames

I love Pokémon to no end, but $20 for a 22 year old GBA game seems insane.

It was delightful listening to Mark and Daniel adventure down memory lane with a bunch of the older Zelda games. Thanks for the episode, guys! I hope you give the DS games a shot at some point. I bounced off Phantom Hourglass the first time I tried, but on a subsequent play, I found an amazing game

Played Kronologic last night. I'm a big fan of the punch board deduction system, which reminds me that I've had Turing Machine sitting in my closet for 2 years and have yet to break it out. I should get around to that... #boardgames

AI can't replace game designers but it can replace Ryan Dancey 😂

The more I sit with this, the more it reeks of someone who sees games as products. They're just lines on a P&L. The type of person who looks at the royalties that go to the designer as a cost centre to be minimized, not realizing that designers are the ones who actually make games worth playing.

Dude is salivating at the chance to replace workers and incredibly disrespectful and dismissive to the designers who made his company successful. What utter bollocks to think they can or should be replaced by a machine.