My favorite new to me games of 2025: 10: Hallertau 9: Marrakesh 8: Rebirth 7: SILOS 6: Dune Imperium: Uprising 5: Zoo Vadis 4: Alhambra 3: ARCS 2: March of the Ants 1: Manhattan Project: Energy Empire

The totals for 2025 ended a bit higher than I’d like. Additions: 62 Removals: 41 Net increase: 21 games. Collection hovering around 200 including expansions (and preorders not here yet), which is probably too much for me. 2026 goals: limit purchases. Play owned games. Consider further culls.

And some War of the Ring. So good. Middle-earth was saved.

Some solo Le Havre to ignore the hellhole we live in.

As 2025 comes to an end. My year in board games. Happy New Year.

Went through my owned games. Have some I’ve never played even though I owned for, in one case, 2.5 years. Also others that haven’t been played since 2018. 2026 goal: play my games.

Devlin house tradition. Missing the strawberry nose / bows because elder gremlin ate them all.

Running through the Boardgame numbers and it looks like 35 games sold/given away vs 52 games added (assuming no further adds - not expecting any). Oof. Too big a swing up. Gotta be pickier next year.

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! What's YOUR #LastFourWatched? A bit all over the place this week.

November board game plays. Chart by: @bgstatsapp.bsky.social The gremlins LOVE The Hobbit, There & Back Again.

You just died, the sixth picture in your camera roll is what killed you.

Too annoyed to talk about boardgames today.

Live look at senate democrats considering opening the government for the “promise” of a vote on the ACA in December.

First game of Tak on the board I made. Squares a little small, but it works.

Getting to end of the year. Before we visit my revised Top 50 boardgames, let’s talk about the ones that fell off the list. Bohnanza (was 50) There’s not a whole lot to say. I still love this game, and a lot of the top 100 are based on my whims at the time. This is still a top tier trading game.

October plays. Another light month.

Probably needs some touch up still, but, Tak board.

Bought a cheap box to turn into a Tak board. It’s designed. Need to see how the paint pens come out before deciding how minimal the line work will be.

“This is the year someone announces a Tigris & Euphrates reprint.” - me, every year.

A few games with younger gremlin. She won at The Rose King. Jerk. I mean, yay!

“We took it to Bob Iger and Alan Bergman and they said no. They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that.”

September was busy. So few boardgame plays.

2 projects backed this week. If everyone can stop making new games for a few months that’d be great. www.kickstarter.com/projects/boa...

That was an easy back. Such a good game. gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Saw someone post some gameplay of Toy Battle (I don’t remember who, sorry). Looked neat, so I tried it on BGA. Definitely a fun little game. Of course it’s sold out everywhere.

August boardgame stats.

Been noodling on a trick taking game design on and off for like 2 years. I think I just figured out how to make it work. Bought some reusable blank cards to begin testing. Woo, progress.

Backed Hanami #boardgame on Kickstarter. I liked the old Bakelite bits Samurai, but since we’re not getting that, I guess picnicking it is. www.kickstarter.com/projects/key...

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🌎 Whole lotta rewatches because the brain space has been blah.

Slightly diminish a board game: Four Tribes

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! What's YOUR #LastFourWatched?

Name a zero skips album Suspect this isn’t everyone’s taste. If you need me to go more mainstream, NIN - Pretty Hate Machine.

Why say favorite Nicholas Cage movie when that’s clearly a picture of John Travolta? 😉

Played some bangers in July. Board games played:

I wanted to share a few thoughts recent discussions around CGE’s decision to partner with JKR for their upcoming @codenamesgame.bsky.social game have prompted. Thankful to those who spoke early to this issue (Marceline, Tiffany, @nopunincluded.com et al) for helping this get the needed attention.

Closer isn’t even top 10. Today we’ll go with Gave Up.

No cheating post the last pic of your pet

Songs That Could Be Board Games Elevator Operator m.youtube.com/watch?v=BiP0...

My little Alhambra. I am remarkably bad at this game.

Forgot pics, but a co-op game of Nemesis with the gremlins. They continue to impress me with their gaming. We lost horribly, but not because they didn’t get it. Then elder gremlin kicked butt in an all-in Abyss game. Good weekend so far.

Things have been so heated in this country. Now that it’s July 4th we should all take a step back, take a deep breath, and say: Fuck this administration Fuck ICE Fuck everyone who enables this bullshit.

June game plays ranked: 20 Sovereign Skies 19 Scholars of South Tigris 18 The Game 17 DVONN 16 Potato Man 15 Pagan 14 Up or Down? 13 Paleo 12 Azul Duel 11 Welcome to the Moon 10 Tiny Towns 9 Clank! 8 Rumble Nation 7 Five Tribes 6 Harmonies 5 Alhambra 4 Agricola 3 Bus 2 Ra 1 Castles of Burgundy

In case you missed it this morning, 5 new games are up for preorder on www.newmillindustries.com! Worst In Show - a new edition of Iyados by Mashikamaru with good good dog art by @bethsobel.bsky.social Tezuma Trick - a new edition of Tezuma Master by Hinata Origuchi with updated scoring rules

A new month. Here’s the #boardgames played in June.

All in Five Tribes with the gremlins. Elder gremlin won handily. Good teacher. :P

One of these days I’m going to remember to take pictures. Played a game of Ra with the gremlins today. Top 10 game. So good.

I have a joke about Prometheus, well, it’s more like a sick burn.

Elder gremlin has been playing chess. I bought DVONN thinking she might like more abstracts. Didn’t go great. I thought it was fun and smart. We’ll try again in a few days.

Broke out Bus to play with the gremlins. I love that game, but am reaffirmed that I love it less at 3 players.