@adambght.bsky.social This morning I was catching up on BGHT & listening to Episode 277 - Our BGG Ratings. Your sole 1-Star rating caught my ear. On my way home from work I stopped by Half-priced Books and they have Sweet Mess: Pastry Competition for the insane price of $60.

Pretty good count of Nov plays, especially for new to us games. @kleary.bsky.social #Boardgames

My youngest turned 22 today. Time goes too slowly when we’re young and too quickly when we have young of our own.

@tabletopgamedeals.bsky.social AEG has two Black Friday deals - Edge of Darkness $49.99 60% off - 3 game bundle: Tiny Towns/Guild of Merchant Explorers/Dead Reckoning $49.99 ($160 MSRP) but note Dead Reckoning is Dint&Dent only listed in the tiny print in the Description section with NO refunds.

I took a flier on this, and it arrived today. I checked out the components and their quality is what I expect from 25th Century. Based on the cards and simple rules, gameplay should be fun. Definitely worth $10.

Not too many [recorded on BGG Stats] this month but still had a great time playing what did. Sanssouci & Steam Power were really fun and our first plays of each. #Boaedgames

@tabletopbellhop.com Thanks for the tips on Amazon’s SIPP/SIOC programs in yesterday’s newsletter. So far I’ve yet to have an order shipped to me that way, but I’ll be looking more closely at that going forward.

3-day road trip with @kleary.bsky.social starting from Denver, to the Black Hills, over to Yellowstone, and fly home from Salt Lake City.

@tabletopgamedeals.bsky.social unsure if you saw it, Miniature Market has a huge “Bigger Than Black Friday” sale (111 pages worth as of this morning) with good titles like Sleeping Gods Distant Skies for $60.

Our family enjoys these types of puzzle games so we will give it a try.

@tabletopgamedeals.bsky.social I see Planet Unknown for $55.30 (Amazon listed as seller) or $53.00 (Coolest Commodities as seller) www.amazon.com/Adams-Apple-...

Received the book and have to say its quality is really good. Thick spine, good weighted paper with a nice feel, crisp printing, layout is superb along with a quick section tab on the right pages. Bonus is the artwork!

I also currently see a 15% coupon which drops the price to $9.74, but insure how widely that coupon offer shows up. I paid just over $12 last week for my copy.

@tabletopbellhop.com At the end of Episode280 you asked which 2nd Edition of a game was a perfect upgrade for us. Mine is Trekking the World 2nd Ed. because it improved the core mechanics in ways I prefer a lot more. Kudos to @nickbentley.bsky.social Charlie Binks @marcelineleiman.bsky.social

@boardgamehottakes.bsky.social Tim made a great point in Episode265 this week about cash grabs. I really dislike how flippantly gamers say cash grab because a publisher uses a popular brand on a new product. A cash grab is putting out crap and knowing it’s crap, not savvy marketing.

I played this a few times and enjoyed it, and it has some interesting concepts going on.

My wife and I tried all three new @flatoutgames.bsky.social releases. Although we need to get more plays to form better opinions, my wife’s favorite was Knitting Circle and my favorite was Propolis. As usual, solid production quality and components. #Boardgames

Wow, Gaia Project or Terra Mystica for $50 each.

Texas GOP stealing Dem seats & pushing out flimsy excuses for why is making me excessively angry. I accept the lack of fair representation in my home city but scaling this to the state/US level is essentially creating a single party system (which was expected, unfortunately).

At this price it is worth getting for the updated cards and character boards (e.g., Prince John’s win condition is now better balanced).

@kleary.bsky.social and I had a great time at Emerald Tavern & Games in Austin. Very good food & cocktails/beer, plus solid selection in their games library. They also have a huge Mimic on the front patio. Wish we had a similar place near us in Houston. #boardgames

My wife won our first game of Big Sur 66-58. @25thcentury.games published another fun game with simple mechanisms paired with interesting choices (I’m a sucker for multi-use cards). #boardgames boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41...

@tabletopgamedeals.bsky.social unsure if you saw but Cytosis appears to have a Prime Day deal but I dont see the extra $10 off 3 deal flagged on the page www.amazon.com/Cytosis-Biol...

Good twist on a 2-player lane battler with artwork that brings back memories of games from the 60s/70s my parents owned. $20 is a steal given gameplay and component quality, and the insert is typical Keymaster top-notch stuff.

Top2 expansion set for me, with the other being Japan/Italy (I’m omitting “base games” like Europe/Nordic/Germany/R&S as not being expansions). Both maps implement interesting changes, and that UK map is extra tight.

Anyone who enjoys card games should own this.

Fantastic worker placement game, great components, and with the expansions included there is plenty of gameplay in this version (especially at this price).

When traveling I try to stop by an FLGS or two, and today I picked these while visiting the South Bay where I grew. First was The Game Hub in Manhattan Beach followed up by The Game Chest in Torrance. #Boardgames

Support the Bellhop team if you can. #Boardgames ko-fi.com/tabletopbell...

@tabletopgamedeals.bsky.social Miniature Market’s Summer Savings sale looks to have a few good ones, like Tesseract for 45% off www.miniaturemarket.com/sale

My wife won our first game of River of Gold 70-65. Designed by Keith Piggott and published by Office Dog. I can see it becoming one of our favorites. #boardgames

I very much appreciate the work and/or art of @bethsobel.bsky.social @ianotoole.bsky.social @mattriddlegames.bsky.social @elizhargrave.bsky.social @nickbentley.bsky.social

Introduced our 8-year old grandson to Flip7 and My Lil’ Everdell, and he seemed to really enjoy both. It was good watching him learn a few foundational game mechanisms.

Our official statement and a mini-rant by me on tariffs. TLDR: I'm not happy and you should probably get your orders in for our games soon before prices rise or we run out of stock.

It’s definitely more than just a kids game as our adult kids love to play it during family gatherings. I prefer the winter version but the standard is still a lot fun.

So depressing. The worst part was this is everything was clearly outlined beforehand and people still voted for the clown show.

My wife crushed me in Expeditions 79-35. I needed meteorite cards to synergize with my character and only a few came out the entire game, and the sweep action was on the opposite site of the map. #Boardgames

Throwing my support for Gnoming Around. I grew up in the 70s/80s playing “golf” with my grandmother and this brings back good memories in a more sophisticated gameplay. It’s a solid 2-player game.

@tabletopgamedeals.bsky.social I haven’t seen Detective City of Angels priced this low @ 30% off (showing as Van Ryder’s store so not 3rd party) www.amazon.com/Detective-Ci...

I prefer this to Point Salad because the decisions seem more interesting and the card types become more advanced as the game progresses through three eras. The variable bonus scoring tokens keep things interesting too. Also, <$20 is same as the Kickstarter price.

King Candy has a unique movement mechanic, which I have yet to play as myself but have played against him twice. Shere Khan is less interesting to me, somewhat of a hybrid of play-style to Gaston & Lotso. But for <$10 this is a good addition to the series.

$35 for the gameplay is a great value, but when factoring the amount of wooden components and cards it is an absolute steal at that price.

This is a really good and meaty episode. I relistened to it yesterday while doing yard work.

Played four new-to-me games: 1. Flip7 2. Green Team Wins 3. Riftforce 4. Seastead

In San Antonio for my wife’s work conference, and checking out Hugman’s Oasis which is a pretty solid tiki bar. Good light bites and well crafted drinks.

@tabletopgamedeals.bsky.social I didnt see you post this yesterday and still have 90 minutes to grab GameNerdz Deal of the Day new printing of Yokohama for 40% ($36USD). 83 copies remaining. www.gamenerdz.com/deal-of-the-...

First game of #Finspan with my wife and I won 102-93. Of the series, Wyrmspan is still my favorite but I look forward to trying Finspan again and trying different strategies.

@tabletopgamedeals.bsky.social Heads up that Genius Game’ US Amazon site has a 10% off deal when buying 3 select games. I also noticed their Ecosystem Coral Reef card game has a separate 5% coupon too. May have some other deals on their store site but I didn’t scrub for them.

My wife and I played #OneCardWonder and #Jaipur #boardgames last night, with her winning OCW while I took Jaipur (sure wish I had the sneaky panda bear version of Jaipur though). We really like how quickly both play.