“fucking apostolic succession my ass” *pulls girlfriend in for a romantic kiss*

If you’re looking for a limited communication co-op with one of the most unique communication methods out there, check out @boardofbailey.bsky.social review of AI Space Puzzle from Portal Games www.boardgamequest.com/ai-space-puz... #boardgames

If you are ok with going on a random adventure with some friends, yelling at the dice and draw deck, then there’s no finer adventure. @boardofbailey.bsky.social reviews Talisman: 5th Edition from Avalon Hill www.boardgamequest.com/talisman-5th... #boardgames

Everyone should play A Message From the Stars!!

A family-weight co-op game that brings delight through its unique spins on shared pawns and enticing events, but... @boardofbailey.bsky.social reviews the pick up and deliver game Express Route www.boardgamequest.com/express-rout... #boardgames

Maybe next we can get Awaken Realms AND Ravensburger to better credit Jason Perez for updating the entire game to 1897. I'm bothered by how little credit he is getting for the new edition. It was a Puerto Rican who took the slavery out of Puerto Rico!

A charming experience with tight drafting decisions and snappy playtime make it a go-to end of night or family experience. Bailey reviews Printing Press from Portal Games www.boardgamequest.com/printing-pre... #boardgames

New video AND a new series! Introducing "My Favourite Game," a series focusing exclusively on the best of the best of board games. In this inaugural episode we feature none other than El Grande. youtu.be/BGlXxhta6d0

Your reminder the organization behind those Christian "He Gets Us" ads you'll see during the Super Bowl also gives tens of millions of dollars to the Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right lawyers who overturned Roe and write most of the anti-trans laws in the country

Board games are art. But are they subject to art restoration? How does that look for our hobby over restoration of still art? Check out my ramblings here: theyrecalledvictorypoints.com/art-restorat...

Retro Month at Pixel Die has branched into Vintage Day! We played, and ranked, all of 3M's original abstract games. I guarantee I've disqualified at least one game someone thinks would fit that description. pixeldie.com/2024/01/17/r...

We're looking for a graphic designer to come join the team in Saint Paul. This isn't an entry-level position, but if you've got a few years of professional graphic design experience and are interested in working alongside a wonderful team, please apply! ledergames.com/pages/careers

The question everyone should be asking.

“The Universe Explained with a Cookie” is releasing in April and we’re putting together the publicity plan. Do you know a blog, channel, or show that we should reach out to? Please let me know! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Looking through Routledge's catalog, I believe I've found four solid board gaming textbooks. What are some of your favorite books, textbooks, or collections of writings about board gaming? This is an area I'm ignorant in.

Couldn't have happened to a better Organizer, player, and all around gent. Congratulations Matt!

We're moving to Minneapolis! Hope everyone is excited for a very busy 2024...

As we all continue to settle into They're Called Victory Points, follow me as I ramble through my board game collection. What will be learned from this? Who can say. youtu.be/L0IpyI4sops?...

What better way to start the new year than joining Mabel's Tabel, a discord server for trans board gamers age 30 and up? There's over seventy of us now - larger than I had ever hoped to imagine, but still a cozy little space. Want an invite? My discord handle is amabelinahat (feel free to reskeet)

Here's my new board game thing for this year: They're Called Victory Points! Same objective, same over-examination, all under a new roof. Spoiler Alert for later this year: I have my first podcast coming this summer too! youtu.be/tdHRemBLbHU?...

More than 80,000 readers have visited BoardGameWire since we launched in April, a frankly astonishing number - if you squeezed them into a convention hall, we'd be bigger than Gen Con. Please help support us to greater heights in 2024. Merry Christmas! boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Being profiled in The New Yorker is easily the most surreal and unexpected thing that's ever happened to me. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

End of Year time!! This week I discuss my Publisher of the Year!! I discuss Renegade and their preservation of Hasbro titles, and [REDACTED] for having a stacked year of eurogaming: dailyworkerplacement.com/2023/12/12/b...

Oh, and Daily Worker Placement will not exist soon. Most of the writing team and are jumping ship to a new project. If you are a board hobbyist that can ramble on about random topics of your choosing and want a home and a support system for your writing, hit me up! We can talk about adding ya!!

It has been such a busy week that I forgot to mention that my second End of Year article is up! This week I’m lamenting titles I find fascinating, but I could never actually enjoy. dailyworkerplacement.com/2023/12/05/b...

About twenty minutes in and very much enjoying this Zenobia II roundtable about ethics and social responsibility in historical game design. Very smart folks with very sound advice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVBI...

guy who wrote 12 days of christmas

Board game dweebs one and all! Follow me as I begin the fruitless endeavor of attempting to recap The Year That Was. But before we start handing out ribbons for the year, I wanted to start with this “simple” question: what is a “2023 board game” anyway? dailyworkerplacement.com/2023/11/28/b...

Time for this meme again.

I've designed nearly eighty published games - but none of them of the sort where there are six kinds of resources - wood, stone, grain, etc. How do other designers approach starting resources? Any rules of thumb to keep in mind? Discuss and reskeet.

I’m a bit confused by Ingenious. Knizia has released 472829474 titles, and not all are going to be S-tier, but why has it stayed in print all these years where others have struggled to do so? Is “family weight” abstract just that appealing?

The award winning drafting game has a new offshoot for your tasty game playing. @boardofbailey.bsky.social reviews Sushi Go!: Spin Some for Dim Sum from Gamewright www.boardgamequest.com/sushi-go-spi...

Come with me on this Halloween to explore exactly how board gaming can succeed at horror, even when others may say it falls flat. Oh, and some cheesy jokes and some recommendations are there too. But no candy. That’s for me. dailyworkerplacement.com/2023/10/31/i...

A simple card game that's a tight tug-of-war where each and every turn matters. @boardofbailey.bsky.social reviews Sunny Day Sardines from 25th Century Games www.boardgamequest.com/sunny-day-sa...

Good: Eagles Sunday Night game. Bad: these ugly throwback uniforms.

Join me as I try to figure out why it’s so hard to play the games I love in my new DWP article! dailyworkerplacement.com/2023/10/17/i...

As I start to draft out some government mandated “End of Year” board gaming lists, I’d like to know some titles that came out this year I shouldn’t sleep on. I have done a bad job in the past of having 20+ titles on the “haven’t played” list, and want that shrunk!

For my next Daily Worker Placement article, I set myself a challenge: can I reduce down from 16 Kallax Cubes (4x4) to 9 (3x3). I’m currently at 8. Very excited to unpack the thoughts and emotions surrounding the cull, but tl;Dr: I just wanna play these dusty games I love instead of “new flings”.

Fuck FryxGames. Support trans designers, publishers, artists, and developers. Wanna find some projects I’ve been following recently from some knockout trans designers? dailyworkerplacement.com/2023/10/03/t...