Great concert from Songs of the Folk, playing songs inspired by 2 years in England, including playing in prisons and jamming with refugees. They have also just founded a non-profit to support their continued work of playing in prisons in the U.S. called For the Folk.

Another review of Reef Gardens, with a score of 9/10! www.spieletest.at/gesellschaft...

Neuauflage des OOP Golden Game 'Citrus' im modischen Setting: #ReefGardens. Auch in dieser Fassung ein tolles Plättchenlegespiel! @jeffreydallers.bsky.social

A gamer friend and his 6-year old son set these up for my birthday: a word search with the names of 7 of my published games (they are not always in a straight line) and "Happy Birthday, Jeff" spelled out with tiles from Dorfromantik.

Finally played High Tide by @marcelineleiman.bsky.social with my son during Thanksgiving break. We enjoyed the simple rules of this fast 2-player abstract. Perfect for quick games on the coffee table between family events! He took it back to school to play with college friends during study breaks.

Taking a break for awhile. Boardgamegeek and yucata.de will be my social media for the next months.

Wholeheartedly agree.

Marshmallow Test on a pizza box while tailgating before a football game. My parents enjoyed this trick-taker by Reiner Knizia. When you win 4 tricks, you're out and score for OPPONENTS' tricks at that point. Go out later to score more, but failing to go out scores 0!

I went to my first Iowa State football game since 1999. Such a fun experience with my Mom and Dad. I grew up going to the games, and later went to college here. So fun to be back, even for a short time! And my team won 55-7 on a beautiful day.

My son in his happy place...🤘❤️

My wife isn’t really a gamer—at least, not as much as I am—but I was immediately attracted to her spontaneity and playful spirit. We found this arcade while waiting for our table at a restaurant.

Some of the art and components for my upcoming game with DLP Games, Reef Gardens!

Yay, Donut Shop!

Kareem, if you lived closer, I’d love to start a gaming group with you!

Sunset on Folly Beach was gorgeous.

Playing Link City with Suzanne at a farm house-turned-B&B in the Smokey Mountains. This communication game (in the Codenames genre), designed by Émilien Alquier, was a fun party game to play as we celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary.

You can now play my trick-taking card game, Pala, against AI opponents on the Trickster's Table app: boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/226...

A perfectly legal mini-golf putt.

Listening to my son play guitar with the ocean waves and wind through the palm branches is my favorite way to relax this week.

I’ve been updating Citrus for a new release: boardgamegeek.com/image/900001...

Drinking my morning coffee on a rocking chair on the front porch with a view. Summer in the Blue Ridge Mountains is beautiful.

Excited to announce that Donut Shop was awarded a 2025 Recommended for Play by Mensa. Congratulations @jeffreydallers.bsky.social. Such a fun and clever tile game. To celebrate we have all 5 of our Mensa recognized games on sale in our web store: www.25thcenturygames.com/store?catego...

Airport reading: Play Anything: The Pleasures of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games by Ian Bogost.

I tried face-painting today for the first time at our weeklong children's festival in an area of Germany with many immigrant and refugee families. I have done acrylic and water color before, but a moving child's face is a new challenge!

Several weeks ago at a gaming retreat, a friend and I watched a livestream of our sons doing their music recitals while playing 7 Wonders Architects (I had seen my son perform live already before I left for the retreat)

Finally got the unique 2-player card game, Tether, by Mark McGee, to the table. I really like the concept and the buildup, but the end was just drawing the right card. It was late at a weekend retreat, so I'd like to try it a few more times.

Can't Stop by Sid Sackson is a push-your-luck masterpiece. It's also fun to play with this vintage-looking mat and wooden pieces from an early Franjos publication.

Party Game evening with teenagers: Werewords by Ted Alspach, and Just One by Ludovic Roudy & Bruno Sautter.

I found a beat-up copy of this game on eBay for cheap, and got it to the table. Caesar!: Sieze Rome in 20 Minutes! by Paolo Mori is an excellent 2-player game with simple rules but lots to think about!

Las Vegas by Rüdiger Dorn is still a favorite dice-rolling "party" game for larger groups.

The Ukrainian kids enjoyed the cooperative game, Burg-Ritter by Christian Tiggemann, at the refugee home. I enjoyed playing it too!

This day was the beginning of the best 25 years of my life so far...

I had the chance to teach Pioneer Rails, a game I co-designed with the wonderful @matthewdunstan.bsky.social from @drandagames.bsky.social. Five of my friends had not played it yet (the 6th played the prototype once). I laminated the boards and the fine dry erase markers worked great!

Bunny Kingdom by Richard Garfield, or, as I like to call it, "Sequence on steriods." I will play it now and then, but I sold my copy, as it falls in that space of being too complicated for casual gamers and too random for gamers.

Baker's Dozen is a fun little game from Dr. Knizia that has some 6 Nimmt! vibes--especially with the standard rules. Playing with all cards dealt out, however, allows for more interesting strategic decisions. And it's fun to play with round cards--and donuts!

I picked up this beautiful version of Royal Turf/Winner's Circle by Reiner Knizia from Essen last year, and it's been a hit with everyone who's played. I love how each horse moves differently for each die roll, but the players determine which die roll to use for which horse.

Congratulations on the nomination for Kinderspiel des Jahres, @fertessa.bsky.social ‬and @rf-seattle.bsky.social‬! I'm convinced that children's games are more challenging to design that a "heavy Euro."

Anyone want to play "Spiel des Jahres Comment Bingo"? (I have to admit, I'm guilty of saying some of these😊to myself sometimes). Well played, Hilko. lidude.net/sdj-comment-...

Acquired Maharaja by the stellar Kramer & Kiesling many years ago. Finally got it to the table. Unfortunately, it fell short. I'm not a fan of programming games, and this one was much too chaotic for the game length. I'm surprised this got the deluxe KS treatment recently TBH.

Since Alex Randolph's Heisse Schlacht am kalten Buffet is a stacking game, and I have his Rüsselbande children's game with stacking pigs, I realized I could play the former with the latter's components (adding some DYI cards and 3 standard dice).

Trying a light two-player bluffing game about keeping a bubble in the air. Bubbly is designed by Swiss architect Tobia Botta.

I've enjoyed playing DroPolter by friend Paul Schulz with a number of different groups. Original, beautiful, and challening! New interview with Paul on BGG: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...

Happy Mothers' Day

Alex Randolph, an American who lived in Venice, Italy and helped pave the way for the modern independent boardgame designer, also created this hilarious push-your-luck party game, Heisse Schlacht am kalten Buffet.

Spring flowers in front of an abandoned hotel in a small German spa town. Something alive, something dead, and both are beautiful in their own way.

To the Des Moines, Iowa friends I grew up with, I just found the your "secret" beer...in France, brewed Belgien-style.

I like tile-laying and route-building games and was eager to try Aqua Romana by Martin Schlegel. The interesting part is the moving figures around the edge that determine which tile you place on a row or column.

“We built this city…we built this city on rock and wheat…” I couldn’t keep myself from singing during Catan. I still like playing this now and then.

Los Banditos is Reiner Knizia's "Schotten Totten/Battle Line: The Dice Game," but it's just not as compelling or as fun as the card game versions. Another one for the spring cleaning trade pile!

The chimney sweep is coming. Makes me want to try to dance with him on the rooftops and shout, "Step in line, step in line!"