Sagrada Always good to start a post-Halloween Saturday with a gem of a game. #Runions2025 #gamenight #gamemorning #boardgames #familygameday #sagrada

@boardgamehottakes.bsky.social @2muchenthusiasm.bsky.social @adambght.bsky.social Hey all, just wanted to say that I just finished listening to today’s episode (273 - Healthy Competition) and I thought it was one of the most thoughtful and insightful episodes to date. Love the podcast, keep it up!

Date night with my favorite! #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #datenightgamenight #seasaltandpaper #kingdominio

Please recommend small box - likely card - games that you can play easily at bars or restaurants. My wife and I enjoy going for coffee or a wine bar and playing Sea Salt and Paper. I would love to expand our choices. Any recommendations? #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #datenightgamenight

My good friend (and pastor) @bryanschackmann just killed it with his stand up set at @adplayers tonight. What an incredible night. #comedy #standup #runions2025 #funny #laughs

Segrada Game night with friends. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #segrada

August @bgstatsapp.bsky.social #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight

Terraforming Mars Been a while since we got this out, but it was my birthday… What a game. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #terraformingmars

I cannot even believe today. KKR is a Senior! It feels like just last month when we were taking some of these pictures - where have the 12 years gone? Only one more left - let’s make it great!!! #runions2025 #senior #grhs

What is going on tonight… #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #heatpedaltothemetal #rebirth

July #bgstats #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight

Fortunate to have some good friends want to play some classic games tonight. Catan and New York Zoo. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #catan #newyorkzoo #uwerosenberg

Heat - Pedal to the Metal I messed up the rules a bit to start, but we got to the finish line. @daysofwonder #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #heatpedaltothemetal

Rebirth Tile laying game from Dr. Reiner Knizia and @mightyboards games. We played this for the first time this weekend and really enjoyed this a lot. Very easy to learn, but a lot decisions to make. And awesome production. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #rebirth #kniziagame

Tycoon: India 1881 A deep economic game. I enjoyed playing. I question if the juice is with the squeeze. It took 30+ min to set up. Play time was 2 hr. An hour of putting the bits back in the box. I question how much I can get it to the table. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight

It’s tight, but I was able to sleeve and still fit the @earthbornegames.bsky.social base game, Stewards of the Valley, and the ranger card doubler in the base box. I also sleeved Legacy, but it did not fit it all together. Excited to campaign. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #earthbornerangers

Outlaw Music Festival. The Avett Brothers, Bob Dylan, and Willie Nelson. Willie’s set opened with: “Give us your tired and weak And we will make them strong Bring us your foreign songs And we will sing along … There’s still a lot of love Living in the Promiseland.” #Runions2025

Visited my parents this weekend and against all odds I got them to play a couple games. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #tsuro #azul

June #bgstats

The Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring - the trick taking game. We had so much fun visiting @coralsword.bsky.social This was a first play, but an instant hit. Great trick taker. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #lordoftherrings #tricktaker #coralsword

My family treated me to an awesome afternoon of games for Father’s Day. Doesn’t get much better than this. Thank you fam!! #tickettoride #sushigo #clank #wingspan #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight

7 Wonders Duel #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #7wondersduel

Finspan The next game in the Wingspan universe. I’m guessing if you like Wingspan, you’ll love Finspan. Lighter than Wyrmspan, quicker turns than both of the previous games, this engine builder is beautiful, fast, and easy to learn. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #finspan

Without revealing any confidential details from our therapy sessions, this is pretty accurate. #Runions2025

Guess the game! Fantastic production - this is just beautiful - and… [spoiler alert] These are just the backs of the player boards pushed together! 👌🏽 #guessthegame #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle This deck builder is easy to learn but very challenging after Years 1 & 2. By Year 3, we walk a tightrope between winning and losing. Cooperative but each player’s skills are very different and must combine to move on. Love it. #Runions2025 #boardgamenight #gamenight

@pontifactspod.bsky.social Awesome to see Bry quoted in this USA Today article about pre-Conclave workings. Great stuff and better podcast. apple.news/Arov3LmnQSKu...

Games played in April. #bgstats #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight

Century: Golem We first learned this game at Board to Beers game cafe during a trip to Memphis, TN. Such a great game for five players, and good at lower player counts also. Not a ‘Splendor killer’ (for us), but a really good game and we were happy to put it in our collection after that trip.

Daybreak Family played an Easter Day game and went with a favorite. This is cooperative, but everyone has their own variable strengths and weaknesses and plays their own unique game. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #daybreak #happyeaster #easter

The Rule of Law must be retained. “We yet cling to the hope that it is not to naive that our good bretheren in the Executive branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos.” 4th Circuit Cout of Appeals.

We experienced a special Seder and Maundy Thursday dinner at the invitation and church of good friends. Gut Yontif

7 Wonders Duel H and I played tonight and she destroyed me. My kids are too smart for me, but I love this…

Tiny Towns Over the weekend we visited some long time friends and met up at Emerald Tavern in Austin, Texas for some games. And the best among us also ran the Austin 10k, while others hiked a bit. What a special weekend! #Runions2025 #gameday #boardgames #tinytowns #hike #balconesescarspment

Trumpists want to argue for a future-world that doesn't yet exist, in which the tariffs create a perfect equilibrium for US growth. But the tariff plan announced yesterday does exist. We can read it. It does not make sense and is not defensible on its own terms. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I spoke with nearly two dozen creatives and publishers in the tabletop industry today. It's bad. It's real bad.

Votes for Women Played solo as a learning game. Very difficult, but the cards are spectacular, with the flavor text - you really feel like you are losing something important, until you can turn it around. Really fun. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #votesforwomen #suffrage

Games played in March. #bgstats #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight

It’s here! Excited to dig into Abundance by @dkthomp.bsky.social and @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. If we want to move the U.S., the world, and my kids’ tomorrow forward we must build it and we must create the policy to allow us to build it. I think the ideas here can be that roadmap. Let’s begin.

Hive A friend let us borrow this one. It is tile laying plus movement, but gives a bit of a chess feel. First play, but a fun two player battle. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #hive #tabletopgames

Carcassonne - An all time classic. We don’t get back to this game as much as we should - but it absolutely hits every time played. There are so many good new games, but there are really great games that should keep getting played. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #carcassonne

Heat - Pedal to the Metal Let’s go - learning this awesome racing game for the first time tonight. Even solo, so fun. Can’t wait to play with a group. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #tabletopgames #letsrace

Wyrmspan We are loving this game. Builds off of Wingspan, but much more going on. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #tabletopgames #wyrmspan

February games played. ‘Not many, not many…’

Proving Grounds Picked up this solo only game for next to nothing at 1/2 Price Books. Never heard of it prior. Not a huge fan of dice rolling, but this has an interesting time clock element. Just trying to learn at this point. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #tabletopgames

7 Wonders Duel - Cruel military victory by me tonight. I don’t like going military in this game, but have lost many times this way, so decided to try that tactic and - for good or bad - it worked.

Long Shot: The Dice Game This is a fun push your luck and betting horse racing game. Super quick and fast turns, and everyone plays at each dice roll, so easy to stay engaged. #Runions2025 #gamenight #boardgames #familygamenight #longshot

I am more blessed than I deserve - my wife gifted me Ark Nova for Valentine’s Day. I cannot wait to learn this beast of a game. #arknova #gamenight #boardgamenight #tabletopgame #letsplay #Runions2025

Wow - good info and these recipes look great. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/w... #cooking #Runions2025

Although I don’t have a dog in this fight, let’s go three-peat. (This is the only red shirt I own.) #Runions2025