I was just about to put this skirt on.

Played Farkle today. Won for the first time ever thanks to a natural 6-6-6-6-6-6 roll! Craziness! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3181

Played Molly House on 2025-12-16 with exclusively trans women on BGA. One of the Houses got double-raided at the end of round 3 and we were all hanged. No informers among us. That's not how we roll! We live and love together, and we go to the gallows together! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34...

Played Crokinole on 2025-12-14. Tied with my teen son for the victory this week! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/521

Cretaceous Rails is appearing on a lot of Top 10 of 2025 lists from players, reviewers, critics, and influencers who have had a chance to play it! It's a huge honor for my design to be mentioned in the company of so many other excellent games from amazing designers!

Dinosaurs! Trains! Innovative mechanics! Late pledge is open for Cretaceous Rails reprint and the new Cretaceous Seas expansion! gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Played Gingerbread House on 2025-12-12. Another game I like to get to the table in December, though it's a clever 3d tile-laying game any time of year! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25...

Played Santa's Workshop on 2025-12-13. Taught this to two different groups over the last week. I find it a slick worker placement game with lots of thoughtful little details and it always goes over well this time of year! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/23... #bggplay

Oh my goodness, my BGG Secret Santa was incredibly generous! Speechless! (Blahaj and cat for scale)

Played Pergamon on 2025-11-29. Dusted this one off after having forgotten it pretty thoroughly. It eventually came back partway through. Planning on playing again soon because it's a clever game! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/90...

Got snowed in and played Luthier. Taught my wife and she smoked me! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37...

Played Ratzia on 2025-11-27. The rat mobster re-theme of Ra is great fun! We keep pet rats, so my whole family was really into this. So cute and the kids picked up on the subtle mechanics right away. My wife won this time! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12...

RIP Tom Stoppard. I took a Tom Stoppard class at UNO when I was getting my masters in English and it was an unforgettable class. We read most of his plays and watched Shakespeare in Love, which he wrote, and which instantly became one of my top five movies of all time!

New skirt!

Won my inaugural game of Speakeasy yesterday!

Played Steam Time on 2025-11-19. This obscure gem is one of my Top 20 of all time and my favorite Rudiger Dorn game. I got to teach a friend who hadn't played it before and it came down to the wire! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18...

Played Covenant 11-17-25. Learned this last night and enjoyed it a lot! Innovative worker placement system with lots of yummy point salad dishes! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42...

Played Vantage on 2025-11-16. We were just one tower away from triangulating our position for a rescue ship when our gallant Captain died. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42...

When deciding which games to get rid of from my collection, I used to ask myself “Am I going to play this again?” or “Was this a fun game?” Now I ask myself, “Would I flee the country with this one?”

Cretaceous Rails conquers another Harry Potter game on the overall BGG rankings!

Played Trias on 2025-11-15. One of my Top 20 - I adore this obscure gem! This Yucata win moves me into #4 in the world. It's the only game I'm ranked in the Top 10 on any platform. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4249

Played Pirates of Maracaibo today. Beat my friend Warren by a single point! Really loving this one since learning it a few weeks ago! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/39...

Played Letter GO! today. I playtested this a bunch when my friend Marcus was working on it years ago but I think today was the first time I won it! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24...

Played Bohnanza: 25th Anniversary Edition today. Enjoyed the win in a 6P game today! The secret to my success was avoiding the temptation to buy the third field. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35...

Played Mosaic: A Story of Civilization today. Mosaic is one of my Saturday group's go-to games for 5-6 players. I settled for third with The General as my leader this time. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/32...

I am absolutely delighted that Middle and Old English are preferred language options on this intake form. Time to bust out that Chaucer and Beowulf knowledge and give the English major translators some contract interpreter work!

Played The Gang 3 times. Looking for a new challenge, we tried "Silent Mode" where we couldn't audibly communicate unless required by an effect. We lost two games, then dropped the rule for a third game so we could end the evening on a win, lol. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41...

Played Hot Streak today. Hot Streak was the goofy fun I was led to believe. Had a great time! Almost had a dramatic comeback. The numbered paragraphs in the back of the rulebook are delightful. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44...

Less than two days left of the Cretaceous Rails reprint and new Cretaceous Seas expansion campaign! It would mean a lot to me if you check it out! gamefound.com/en/projects/...

I've been celebrating each time Cretaceous Rails passes a Harry Potter-themed game on the overall BGG rankings, but as a former member of the LDS church, I also want to celebrate having now passed all 104 Book of Mormon-themed games in the database, ha ha!

36 years ago on this date, friends of ours were there at the site when the Berlin Wall came down and sent my family this little artifact piece of it as a keepsake of Reunification. I've kept it all this time and thought I'd share it across my social media today just because it's interesting!

Taught my mom group Amerigo. It’s a magical day when people get to play a Stefan Feld game for the first time! We started with this one because one of the moms just picked it up at a garage sale for $15.

Played Roam on 2025-11-07. After having played this at various player counts now, I think it's a far superior game at 2P. 4P is too chaotic. 2P enables players to get more cards faster and actually use their artifacts in interesting tactical ways. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26... #bggplay

Played Aquatica on 2025-11-08. I rekindled my interest in this one with an online play a few weeks ago, but finally got my physical copy off my Unplayed Shelf yesterday. It's even better in physical plays - sliding those cards is so tactily satisfying! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28... #bggplay

Played The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship on 2025-11-08. Won 2P with my friend Chuck using Frodo/Sam, Gollum, Gandalf, and Legolas. Don't sleep on Gollum, people - rolling 3 less dice during searches is huge! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43...

Played Colosseum 2025-11-08. #OutOfTheDust play. It's been so long since my last play I don't have a logged play of it, so 2011 at the earliest. Let's call it 14 years then! I'd forgotten how fun this game is - will definitely be teaching this to my mom group soon. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27...

It took 25 months and two court cases, but today my petition for a court order gender change was finally granted and I am now legally recognized as female by the State of Utah!!!!!

Played Crokinole on 2025-11-02. My wife won Sunday family Crokinole, despite a strong final round from our teen. I was a very distant third this time. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/521

Played Pirates of Maracaibo on 2025-11-01. Finally got this off my Unplayed Shelf and wow, this might be better than the original Maracaibo. Super impressed and looking forward to another play soon! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/39...

Played 7 Wonders Dice 2 times on 11/1/25. Learned this slick little roll and write and added it to my wishlist. Enjoyed it a lot! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44...

Played Ghost Stories on 2025-10-31. One tough co-op was not enough for us! We survived until the Incarnation appeared, and then the third tile got haunted with not enough of us alive to be able to do anything about it. It was a gallant effort, though! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37...

Played Witch of Salem on 2025-10-31. One of the more obscure Cthulhu games out there, but also my favorite. Brutally difficult co-op and we enjoyed another loss this Halloween. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38...

Played Unspeakable Words. Game #5 of Family Spooky Game Marathon. Everyone else went insane leaving me the winner this time - I was down to my last Cthulhu too! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24...

Played Mysterium. Game #4 of Family Spooky Game Marathon. Won twice in a row! First time winning in I can't even remember how long! The kids have gotten better about giving clues, h ha! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18...

Played Mists over Carcassonne 3 times. Game #3 of Family Spooky Game Marathon. Racked up three more losses on the fourth scenario, lol. This is such a tough and challenging co-op, but so addicting. We only got past the first stack of tiles in the last attempt. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35...

Played MonsDRAWsity. Game #2 of Family Spooky Game Marathon. Recent acquisition that brings a lot of laughs to the table. I shared a victory this time thanks to describing my monsters much better than the first time around! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28...

Played Scooby-Doo! The Board Game. Game #1 of Family Spooky Game Marathon. This CMON cooperative game exceeded my expectations - it's a legit clever and satisfying co-op that looks great on the table and is tons of thematic fun. We won too! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31...

Celebrating my 3-year HRT-Anniversary today!

Played Nanty Narking today. Recent garage sale acquisition. Tried it out yesterday with my wife, who is a huge Discworld boad game fan, and we both agreed this literary re-theme is delightful. I'm glad I added it to the collection! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24...

Monthly Age of Steam game was the Spades map designed by my friend Clef Hayward, who has a new map coming out in the next Deluxe Expansion. Cool trick-taking mechanic on this one we were all into! My friend Jess won for the first time and was super stoked!