💙 Blue 💙 I have chosen the Humphead Wrasse from Finspan 🐟 Like all Wrasses, the Humphead Wrasse can change sex over its lifespan, transitioning from female to male. 🐟 The Humphead Wrasse is currently listed as endangered.

🍕 Fort is a deck builder with fantastic graphic design and a fun theme. It reminds me of the endless days of summer break as a child of the 80s! In Fort you collect stuff (toys and pizza!) and upgrade your fort while you gather friends, sometimes stealing them from someone else’s yard!

💚 Green 💚 I have chosen the Praying Mantis from the delightful game, Meadow from @rebelstudio.eu . The praying mantis looks so sweet and innocent on this card, but they are deadly hunters! 💚 Some mantises have been known to prey on small vertebrates like hummingbirds and lizards!

🌍 Earth is the perfect blend of beautiful and thinky! I thought it was perfect, but then I figured that an expansion might make it even better, and it did! The Abundance expansion adds just enough that it improves the game, but not so much that it lengthens play time or makes things convoluted.

🍺 Other than chess, I didn’t have a lot in my collection with a checkerboard pattern. I decided to go with Taverns of Tiefenthal as the customers have checkered tablecloths!

🍣 Let’s Go! To Japan is just SO lovely. It looks beautiful on the table and it’s fun to play! But the best part is imagining each day of your week long trip in Kyoto and Tokyo! 🏖️This is my enjoy for Take a game vacation for #BGSummerBucketList started by @moments.gaming.together

It’s Monday and that means it’s time to play #MysteryMonday🎲 Today’s theme is 💎 TRINKETS & BAUBLES 💎 🤔 Do you know which game this ring is from? Last week’s theme was 🌳NATURE🌳 and I chose Redwood! Quite a few of you knew this one!

🦒 Giraffes are my favourite animal so I was so excited to get Kavango to the table and realize that I could both play as a giraffe AND put a giraffe in my tableau! ❤️ 🦒 Giraffe’s spots are like fingerprints. Each giraffe has a unique pattern. 🦒 Their hair covered horns are called ossicones.

It’s Thursday and this week’s theme is Camper/RV This one was HARD! I was sure there would be a camper on one of the cards in Photo Tour by but the only one I could find was on one of the player boards!

🌳 What’s a good game to play outside? 🦀 Seaside is made to play outside! It comes in this adorable beach-ready bag. The pieces are made from lightweight wood that can be wiped clean if necessary. No cards to blow away or small pieces to lose! 🏖️ BG Summer Bucket List: Play a game Outside

💜 PURPLE 💜 I had quite a few purple games in the collection!

It’s Mystery Monday! Today’s theme is 🐿️🌳 NATURE 🌳🐿️ 🤔 Do you know which game these flora and fauna components are from? Last week’s theme was 🔥FIRE🔥 and I chose the campfire card from the game Tranquility: The Ascent.

🪶Wingspan is a modern classic! I still love the elegant gameplay but, most of all, I love reading about the birds! Northern Cardinals are common in the area where I live in the winter time, so I thought this handsome fellow would be the perfect little guy to represent the colour red.

July was a fantastic month! I figured that we would have to give up on our game a day streak but we managed to play a game every day on our travels! Now that we are past the halfway point, I’m pretty determined to play a game every day in 2025!

🪷 Gentle Rain is a solo game where you lay tiles trying to match flowers. When you complete a circle, you place one of the special flower tokens. The goal is to get all of the flower tokens on the board, hopefully with tiles to spare. It plays beautifully solo but also as a chill co-op game.

🌶️ Chipotle is, of course, a fast food chain, but it’s also the name for a smoke-dried ripe jalapeño, and of this character from the 2022 game, Chili Mafia. Chili Mafia is a take-that filled set collection game.

🎲 A board game about making board games? I’m here for it! Tabletop Inc. is a worker placement game where the goal is to develop and produce board games and, hopefully, win awards for them! You even have little game boxes and the punny titles take it over the top (my favourite is Beak Size! 🤣)

Which mechanism instantly makes you suspicious of a game? 🫱🏻Dexterity games. Terrible. Thankfully, there is one exception that we really enjoy, and that’s Kluster! 🧲 Place your magnets into a ring without causing any to stick together.

It’s Monday and that means it’s time for another #MysteryMonday🎲 and this week’s theme is 🔥 FIRE 🔥 🤔 Can you guess which game this card featuring a camp fire is from? 😈 Last week the theme was ABSURD and not a single person knew the game Burn in Hell (2004). Not a great game, but fun cards!

One new to us play this week: 👂🏻Exquisite Corpse is a puzzle game where you are trying to create a closed route using body parts. If you like Bandido/Bandida, and enjoy art, this game may be for you! Our game of the week this week is 🎢 Unfair 🎢. This is our absolute favourite game!

🪴Planted is the ultimate in cozy vibes. It brings me back to the early days of the pandemic, hanging out at home discovering new hobbies. While I certainly wouldn’t want to go back to those times, there is something to be said for the way it forced us all to slow down and enjoy being at home!

⛳️ More river cruise games! On the top deck they have putting greens and shuffleboard. I am terrible at both. But they are perfect entries for “Play a non-board game”.

🛥️ We are on a river cruise from Bucharest to Budapest. Today we are docked in Nikopol, Bulgaria, and had a free afternoon after a morning excursion so we hung out in the lounge and got some games in. I think this counts for the “Play a Waterside Game” prompt!

🚊 We are travelling in Romania right now and yesterday had the chance to visit the Red Goblin in Bucharest! What a fantastic store! They had a great game collection as well as lots of other geek culture stuff. The staff were absolutely lovely as well. We, of course, couldn’t leave empty handed!

We reached the end of June, and the halfway point of 2025, and we have played a game every day this year! 🙋🏻Any questions about June’s plays?

🦜 Life of Amazonia is definitely our Game of the Week! We got our first play in last weekend and have now played five times! We love that there are four scoring sets for the animals to add some variety. And those animeeples are the most adorable! 🥰 🦥 Have you played Life of the Amazonia?

No new games this week but we did get Anthelion: Conclave of Power from @buttonshy back to the table after quite a long time! It was the last week of school and teacher tired is real, but I made and AND we still played a game every day! 🤔 Any questions about this week’s plays?

Hive I don’t play Hive often because I don’t have a good mind for it but those chunky tiles are amazing! 🕷️ All spiders produce silk but not all spiders spin webs 🕷️ Spider silk is stronger than steel of the same thickness 🕷️ Some spiders can regenerate lost legs during molting

✈️ Back in 2015 we took a trip to Prague. On that trip we took a day trip to visit Kutná Hora and the Sedlec Ossuary. In 2021 I won a contest and chose Skulls of Sedlec, in which you play a Bone Collector trying to create the best arrangement of skulls. It’s still our favourite Buttonshy game! 💀

It’s Monday and this week’s theme is 🌁 BRIDGE 🌁 suggested by me! 💁🏻 🤔 Do you know which game this bridge is from? ⏳I missed last week but the previous week’s theme was ⚫️ MONOCHROME ⚫️ and I chose the gorgeous Saashi & Saashi game Photograph

🏖️ Today we played King of Tokyo Duel twice in a row! I won the first time but lost the second game! It’s my entry for Play a Double Header in the BG Summer Bucket List. #BGSummerBucketList was started by @moments.gaming.together

Two new to us games this week! 🐸 Life Of The Amazonia: We really loved our first two plays and left it set up to play again today! 🪷 Gentle Rain: This one has all the gentle, relaxing vibes it claims to have! 🤔 Any questions about this week’s plays?

Thanks to everyone who recommended animal games for my birthday! We went with Life of the Amazonia and played it twice today! It’s fantastic! 🐸

🧵 Rococo: Make beautiful ball gowns and frock coats, purchase decorations, and finally attend the final Grand Ball of the season! This game is especially fitting today as it’s my birthday, and my hubby got me Rococo several years ago as a birthday present!

One new to us game this week! 🐚 Seaside: a perfect-for-the-beach press-your-luck game! There is definitely a lot of luck in this one but it’s a quick, light game you can take anywhere and the components are perfect! 🤔 Any questions about this week’s plays?

☠️ Poisonous & Venomous ☠️ Kelp: Shark vs Octopus 🐙 All octopuses are venomous, but the blue-ringed octopus of Australia is the most venomous (and dangerous to humans)

🐙 Cosmoctopus I love, love, love the graphic design in this game! The typography really stands out. It has a consistent font, but many of the cards add effects to the font to match the card title. It’s tongue-in-cheek-thematic, in perfect keeping with the Great Inky One!

🎣 Deep Regrets I was enamoured with the art in this game before the Kickstarter even launched, and that’s a big reason I backed it. Every card is a (sometimes gruesome) delight! There is so much detail in every illustration, including inside the box lid.

📻 If your games were a radio station, what would the genre be? 🎧 Our collection would be that college radio station DJ that is on in the middle of the night. The one that plays a mix of popular songs from ten years ago, current indy hits, and obscure things that no one else remembers.

It’s Monday and this week’s theme is ⚫️ MONOCHROME ⚫️ 🤔 Do you know which game this card is from? ⏳Last week’s theme was 🧩 PUZZLE 🧩 and I chose Classified Information.

This week we played one new to us game this week plus a new expansion! 7️⃣ Flip 7 is a push your luck game that would be super fun with large groups! 🌍 Earth: Abundance adds just enough to be interesting without ruining the elegance of Earth! 🤔 Any questions about this week’s plays?

Takenoko 🐼 Giant pandas need two different species of bamboo to avoid starvation! 🎋 🐼 Even though pandas eat mostly bamboo their digestive systems are typical of a carnivore, so 1% of their diet can include eggs and small animals! 🥚 🐼 Pandas have vertical slits for pupils, like a cat! 🐱

🐻 Katmai: The Bears of Brooks River features the stars of the Fat Bear Contest! If you don’t know about the Fat Bear Contest I am sad for you. You should google it. I’ll wait. The art is lovely and the game play is wonderful as well. It is similar to Hanamikoji and Air, Land. and Sea.

💪 Small But Mighty 💪 I am such a huge fan of Buttonshy’s wallet sized games! So much game packed into 18 cards. They are brilliant for travel but we will sometimes get them out on the gaming table at home, too! Skulls of Sedlec is our favourite, but we haven’t played a bad one yet!

🧩 PUZZLE 🧩 This game isn’t a puzzle in the traditional sense, but you are definitely solving a puzzle to be successful! 🔍 Do you know which game these components are from? ⏳Last week’s theme was ORANGE and I chose Mechanica, which would have been perfect for this week!

It’s June!!! 🎉 We had an awesome month for gaming in May! We played every day and got five new games in! 🤔 Any questions about this month’s plays?

June is here! 🎉 We have kept up our game a day streak and I can’t believe it’s gone with this long! No new games this week but we got some old favourites to the table! 🙋🏻 Any questions about this weeks plays?

NYET! 🐻‍❄️ Polar bears actually have black skin and their fur is translucent! The reason they appear white is because of reflected light. 🐻‍❄️ Polar bears can swim 6 mph! 🐻‍❄️ Polar bears can smell their prey from up to 32km away!

🟢 Green Flags 🟢 🏰 Kingdomino The green castle in Kingdomino literally has a green flag (banner?), which is what made me think of it. It’s pretty quick to set up and play. It’s super easy to learn. There is enough strategy to be interesting but it’s light enough to be perfect for a weeknight.

🟠 Do you know which game these orange pieces are from? ⏳Last week’s theme was PROGRESS and I chose Daybreak.