i wrote mini-reviews of the fourteen books i read in june. a new bit for my blog! it's more than just board games now! 📚 #booksky manaworm.com/2026/07/01/j...

Sometimes I wanna do auctions without cruelly bankrupting other players. Sometimes I just wanna be a cool mouse with a tacklebox. I wrote about @gameheadgames.bsky.social's Trinket Trove, an accessible bidding game that works even at two. my review: manaworm.com/2026/06/20/t... #boardgames

my may plays. a good variety of big group games, a few game nights, and some sealed format mtg + (new to me) riftbound. #bgstats #boardgames

just finished legend of the river king by @aeneas-nin.bsky.social. every game out there deserves something this well-loved and well-written made about it. and it made me want more book-length game crit.

started @sunderfolk.com and im really impressed with it ~3 hrs in. gives me the same vibes as something like tidal blades 2 but i get to play it over discord.

Toy Battle is an addicting little tactical treat (far more "battle" than "toy") that's hard to play just once. My review: manaworm.com/2026/05/22/t... #boardgames

discovering @critdistance.bsky.social doubled the amount of good games writing i read on any given week. such a great resource.

man, just so terrible. my brother and i were just talking about how crazy it was that he's the longest tenured grizzly, despite being so young. special player.

the earlier amazon broadcasts had this "AI orb" that would come out and highlight when a player was being guarded by a smaller player... just something you might notice even if you had never seen basketball before

A truce has been called in the war on cozy. Cozy Stickerville has not fallen. I have my gripes with it, but it does its thing. Plus, my partner absolutely adored it. my review: manaworm.com/2026/05/08/c... #boardgames

heartbreaking: nintendo made falco into a bird. and fox a fox.

my april plays. played through all of cozy stickerville, half of the sherlock jack the ripper cases, and got the commander pod together a couple times for the first time in almost a year. #bgstats #boardgames

great post, i have had so much of the same thoughts. i've been enjoying tomodachi life. i'm not putting memes into it-- the miis and the topics they discuss are things me and my partner are interested in. i let the game handle the randomness and the weirdness by mashing it all together.

lol'ing at this section on the brotato wiki

52 Duels by @postmarkgames.bsky.social is like a TCG where you already know all the cards in your opponent's deck. Also, you attack by playing poker hands. It's great. My review: manaworm.com/2026/04/15/5... #boardgames

lamelo one million bricks, ian eagle casting, technical difficulties in overtime... and still a pretty fun game to watch

reading this, i realized i've also held a strange, unexamined bias against expansions for many of the same reasons. thanks for doing the work of dispelling that. good post.

mini game night of 52 duels, trinket trove, and finally a couple games of agent avenue (pictured) #boardgames

I wrote about Flamecraft Duals, easygoing games, and sharing a hex grid instead of ruthlessly fighting over one. manaworm.com/2026/04/07/f... #boardgames

played a couple games of two-headed giant commander tonight. i was surprised (and maybe shouldn't have been) how turning commander from a political free for all to a 2v2 makes the game much more competitive and cutthroat. #mtg

precariously stacking snails in sanibel #boardgames

I went to Erewhon, had the best smoothie of my life, and realized that it's a Baudrillardian interactive museum in the form of a grocery store: defector.com/erewhon-is-n...

(most of) my march plays #boardgames

learning sanibel by @elizhargrave.bsky.social tonight

The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish is now available on Steam :o) We hope you enjoy <3 store.steampowered.com/app/3172760/...

Perfect game design is drawing a little straight line and arguing over whose metro is most realistic. My review of my favorite game in @matthewdunstan.bsky.social's Next Station line, Next Station: Paris. #boardgames manaworm.com/2026/03/26/n...

such a great read top to bottom

is gitaroo man the greatest game of all time

Big Pasti's latest video, entitled "The 7 Deadly Sins of Board Game Design", had a real effect on me, and today's video is a response to his. I think there is a better way we can talk about game design. youtu.be/BY7TeikZcBw 🎲✂️

picked up Cat and the Tower on a whim, got it played same night. two things i love: the cards which ask you to "pet" every cat meeple on a floor, and the weird bendy different-sized walls which make every level a nightmare to build. #boardgames

tried a couple rounds of the flamecraft duals solo mode today. liked it a lot more than i thought i would, pretty fun stuff so far. #boardgames

im not a tv person but my partner and i successfully binged the first season of abbott elementary. pretty good stuff.

i see ppl posting their top 9 videogames so i made a list. don't hold me to any of this i'd probably make an entirely different list if you asked me tmrw

By my count, First Class Letters is about two things: words with lots of Js in them and knowing your alphabet. A fine game for the wordgame enjoyers among us. my review: manaworm.com/2026/03/05/f... #boardgames

i love reading and watching board game reviews. even a negative or mild review of something can be all it takes to break me out of my boardgame burnout. i just like people thinking about games. it gets me excited to play.

does the term "cycle" in the card game sense (cycling through your deck, cycling a card, etc.) come from the mtg keyword? or does it predate that mechanic, and the keyword is named after it?

Tag Team is a critical darling, but not one that I immediately clicked with. Strangely enough, it was a jaunt through SNES flop Shaq Fu that got me back on Tag Team's side. I get it now. my review: manaworm.com/2026/02/23/t... #boardgames

the internet is worth it for me because of ugly community-managed websites that are nearly 100% complete repositories of knowledge for their niche

been playing a lot of brotato, astral ascent, and gunfire reborn lately. my little brother is getting really into balatro. we are heading backwards to peak roguelike.

I make games because I love every step of the process—the initial idea, the scrappy first prototype, the first playtest filled with glee and failure and hope. Here’s my scrappy first prototype of Tiny Towns. [1/6]

this thread starts with "the AI sucks ass but I spend my day querying it riddles" and ends with "yeah it could replace all of my designers because their job is that easy."

my newest bga obsession is Carnuta. reminds me slightly of splendor with it's tight choices and trying to efficiently use a small handful of resources. also i think the art is sick.

halfway through c. thi nguyen's the score and i have to say: it's nice reading nonfiction that isn't informing me of the horrors of the world. i mean, there's a little bit of that, but there's also board games and the delight of play

mewgenics build diversity is crazy. day one run where one of my cats would teamkill my other cats and proceed to one shot every encounter

just lost my entire evening to mewgenics... they've done it again folks

i need mewgenics to be good

i remember when zubac was ascending and dropped like 30 and 30 on myles turner in 2023. that has to be his best game ever, right?

Outfox the Fox is a trivia game for people who aren't that good at trivia. It is also a deception/bluffing game for people who aren't very good liars. It worked really well for me. my review: manaworm.com/2026/02/03/o... #boardgames

played a lot of party and word games this january. outfox the fox by @jeffgrisenthwaite.bsky.social was a huge standout. not pictured: seven different unlock!: short adventures i played through #boardgames #bgstats

opening the bgg forums and seeing dice tower bootlicking and a guy asking if he should log a play he had in a dream