WHOZIT? is the Game of the Week! Is Godzilla more likely to go to the spa frequently than the youngest player in the room? Can Abraham Lincoln assemble IKEA furniture? Both very relevant and normal questions!

The Choice is the Game of the Week! Quite the name for a pretty unassuming roll 'n' write where you roll dice and use them as colors OR numbers. Such agonizing choices! My heart cannot handle it! AAAAAAAAAAAAA

Wallamoppi is the Game of the Week! Think Jenga isn't stressful enough? How about if you have a marble clanking down some ramps while you stack and you have to catch the marble before it falls into a pit? That's Wallamoppi, baby!

Polyominoes til I die. Probably from getting run over by a car getting this picture taken, but at least there's a crosswalk here now! Incredibly grateful for the Love Your Block program for helping us make this happen.

Painting something big tomorrow!

The soundtrack, the performances, the look. Love it.

Cascadito is the Game of the Week! I really enjoyed Cascadero, so seeing it reimplemented in a dice game is definitely right up my alley. But can it create enough contrast to stand out? I'm excited to find out!

Finally, long torso representation. I feel seen.

Fairy Trails is the Game of the Week! Two players carve secret paths through the forest, each trying to find homes for their gnome and fairy families. Uwe Rosenberg goes small!

Oh cool, that oughta solve it.

I'm late to the party, but boy, King of the Hill rules, I tell you what. youtu.be/fT4JWjrZo6w?...

Urbion is the Game of the Week! Balance the library-city of dreams, manage emerging chaos, and fight off the Emptiness that threatens to swallow everything in its path.

I get to paint a crosswalk I designed next month and I'm super excited and nervous about it. Wish me luck!

Sprint! is the Game of the Week! Can you pick up a specific number of cards in order to move a tortoise faster than a hare? Then Sprint! is for you! It's a game!

It's been so long since I've made a new prototype. And no polyominoes to be found!

boop. is the Game of the Week! Scare off kittens and cats for control of the quilt. That sunbeam shall be yours and yours alone!

Getting the design itch again and this No Shuffle Design Challenge from Button Shy is really interesting! Can you design an 18-card game with no system randomness? Every game I've had published came from a design contest, so let's see how this one goes! buttonshygames.com/blogs/news-1...

Machi Koro is the Game of the Week! Is this the granddaddy of the recent trend of board games with high output randomness? Games like Hot Streak, Quacks, Magical Athlete, Challengers, FlipToons, etc. What do you think of these? I kinda prefer when I know how my engine will run when I run it...

Having a normal one trying to cancel my Internet.

Pretty dry spell when it comes to movies, but Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie was really great. Cracked up yesterday just thinking about a joke from it. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

I can't sleep. I guess I'm just riding the adrenaline after making this.

Koala Rescue Club is the Game of the Week! Save trees and re-home koalas across Australia, all through polyominoes. You've got two layers to puzzle through, all while funding the local veterinary hospitals and earning merit badges.

I love my library. Everyone gets a 3 foot print on the big printer each month. Finally got around to printing this beauty by @helveticablanc.bsky.social

Jumped at the chance to teach and play Trade on the Tigris. My score was less than half of the winners, but I still had a blast.

O, to be a squirrel sunning themselves on top of a roof.

"You gonna open that mouse pad?" "You're supposed to open it?"

Came across this amazing post on BGG today.

Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon is the Game of the Week! The desert is coming alive as springs spread gardens across the landscape. Can you control the biggest and brightest flowerbeds while planting the tallest trees?

Easy Come Easy Go is the Game of the Week! With just 4 dice and 9 placards, it's one of the slimmest games in my collection. Do I like it more than Pickomino? Maybe? Do I even really like either of those games? Eh....

The Game of the Week is The GAME of Coda! The international code-breaking sensation that I had never heard of until finding it while thrifting. You're taking shots at opponents' codes, pushing your luck or playing cautiously to lengthen your own code.

The Game of the Week has turned 10 years old! I've been making little doodles and playing games at work for a decade. Over 400 games! A used copy of Railroad Ink was a little treat to myself for the occasion. Boy, these lava lakes and meteors are mean!

Rumis is the Game of the Week! Polyominoes are so yesterday, now I'm into polycubes! Rumis (aka Blokus 3D) has you placing your pieces so that more faces of your color are visible from the top at the end of the game.

I was thrilled when I misread it as a Godzilla short film, but my excitement remained at that high level when I realized it was Gorillaz.

Harmonies is the Game of the Week! An ecosystem is complex and interwoven, but you're up for the job of creating one for yourself! Grab landscapes and take care of animals in a hope to thread them all together in a beautiful web of life. Good luck!

Cursed Court is the Game of the Week! Everyone knows this council is corrupt but you just need to know what their plans are. Is a festival coming up? A secret wedding, perhaps? Will something happen at the opera? It could happen today!

If you aren't reading The Sasquatch Diaries, do yourself a favor and follow @planetsmudge.bsky.social to get caught up. There's gold every day.

**Minecraft: Builders & Biomes** is the Game of the Week! I initially picked this up from a thrift store as trade fodder, but I decided to play it just to handle these gigantic cubes. For every cool component, there is uncool piece to match. Very jumbled production.

It's 2026 and I saw Sam Raimi's Send Help. It's so nice to see him back in his element.

Rolled credits on Hollow Knight: Silksong. What a game! Hornet is great, the story was great, the world is great, just all wonderful!

Samarkand Bazaar is the Game of the Week! This is actually a trio of Sid Sackson games that have been reprinted in the same box. They each have a different way to interact with trading in cubes: pure exchanges, pick-up-and-delivery, and blind auctions. You even get to roll a cube! Cubes!

If Wishes Were Fishes is the Game of the Week! The fish market is abuzz, ready to purchase talking fishes by the boat. Who cares if they can speak, or even grant wishes? Gotta get that sweet, sweet cash!

Yes, I watched all of the Final Destination movies and then Serenity. No, I'm not doing great. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Wow, Windows Media Player doesn't pull up metadata from CDs anymore when you're playing or ripping. Just useless.

Burgle Bros 3: Future Flip is the Game of the Week! A TNT mishap has exploded the Burgle Bunch into the future. Yes, that's the setup. Chase down and destroy AI to rid the world of their evil. I like the sound of that!

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Dice Miner is the Game of the Week! Delve deep into the mountains, digging out treasure and tunnels, all the while dodging cave-ins and dragons. Want to roll 20 dice at a time? This is the game for you!

Just beat the Last Judge, very excited to never hear them chant ever again. My goodness, that took so long.

This lemon was already in rough shape with that giant scar on the back, but this pig is ready for 2026.

So delighted with all of the animation flourishes in Silksong. The little ants carrying away their dead, the way Hornet spins after jumping, the flying bugs after running through a field. And it feels so acrobatic! Each fight is a dance and you can attack from so many angles. Incredible work.

Say that again. I want to make sure I heard you correctly.