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Bez<p><a href="https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=363366" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">boardgamearena.com/tournament?</span><span class="invisible">id=363366</span></a></p><p>If you enjoy playing simple roll-and-write games on BGA, and would enjoy playing a few games of 'Splitter' in big groups to learn/explore together, join my tournament above. 🙂 </p><p><a href="https://tabletop.social/tags/BGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BGA</span></a> <a href="https://tabletop.social/tags/boardgamearena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgamearena</span></a> <a href="https://tabletop.social/tags/boardgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgames</span></a></p>
17M d20s in a Trenchcoat<p>Currently at 95.0/100 new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boardgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgames</span></a> for 2024. There's two more currently in progress on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boardgamearena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgamearena</span></a>, and I assume the other three will be similarly light, so I suspect I can call it for the year in terms of top X retrospectives.</p><p>(As usual, my sorting of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AeonsEnd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AeonsEnd</span></a> plays by nemesis is splitting the count over multiple items, but if they were all together they'd be most played at around 360.)</p>
Stacey<p>The last time I posted about this here, I met some great folks who became a regular little 4 person gaming group. Is there anyone who'd like to play games on Board Game Arena? It's free, and if you play with a Premium member, you can access all the games. The library is actually really big! HMU if you'd like a chill, async online board game friend.</p><p><a href="https://boardgamearena.com/?sp=1f31se" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">boardgamearena.com/?sp=1f31se</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (disclaimer: I get gift points if you join with this link)</p><p><a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a> <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/BoardGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGame</span></a></p>
Third spruce tree on the left<p>&lt;cracks knuckles&gt; Starting the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a> dev tutorials. Gonna port my new fav. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/boardgame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgame</span></a> to BGA.</p>
You Know What<p>Our Board Game themed Quiz is now live!<br><a href="https://youknowwhatblog.com/quizzes/board-game-trivia-challenge/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youknowwhatblog.com/quizzes/bo</span><span class="invisible">ard-game-trivia-challenge/</span></a><br>.<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/boardgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgames</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/boardgame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgame</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/boardgamegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgamegeek</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/boardgamer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgamer</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/board" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>board</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/boardgamearena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgamearena</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/boardgamenight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgamenight</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/quiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quiz</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/trivia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trivia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/trivianight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trivianight</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/trivialpursuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trivialpursuit</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/catan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catan</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/tickettoride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tickettoride</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/terraformingmars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terraformingmars</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/chess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chess</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/takenoko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>takenoko</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/jenga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jenga</span></a></p>
Board.Game.Breakdown<p>My September plays, thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://brettspiel.space/@BGStatsApp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BGStatsApp</span></a></span> </p><p>I played a lot of my new purchases quite a bit, both in person and on <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGame</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TableTop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TableTop</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TableTopGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TableTopGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Games</span></a></p>
Board.Game.Breakdown<p>July plays. A lot of new stuff as well as quite a few <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a> plays</p><p>Thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://brettspiel.space/@BGStatsApp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BGStatsApp</span></a></span> for the wonderful app!</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGame</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TableTop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TableTop</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TableTopGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TableTopGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Games</span></a></p>
Board.Game.Breakdown<p>Started playing a new game on <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a> called Draft and Write Records. </p><p>You draft cards in order to build out a "crew" (essentially a band) and go out on tour, cut singles, and other things to gain star power to win. </p><p>Anyone else tried it, or even the physical version?</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGame</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TableTop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TableTop</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TableTopGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TableTopGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Games</span></a></p>
17M d20s in a Trenchcoat<p>I got to 43/100 new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boardgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgames</span></a> for the year by the end of June. Looks like I can probably make it. (Thanks <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a>.)</p><p>Not much in the way of old-games-I've-been-reminded-I-liked this month, so:</p><p>Best new-to-me (gaming): ?????????<br>Best new-to-me (vibes): ??????? ???????</p><p><a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/162733/june-2024-in-review" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/162</span><span class="invisible">733/june-2024-in-review</span></a></p>
17M d20s in a Trenchcoat<p>Got in part of a game of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Altered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Altered</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TCG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TCG</span></a>, though the beta on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a> closed too quickly for the speed my opponent's playing at. (Also, not entirely clear that they know how to play???) Seems interesting. The art is nice, I don't find the QR code obstrusive at all (despite complaints), and the mechanics are fairly simple.</p><p>I have concerns about the release model, but then, so does everyone else. 🧵 </p><p>6.9/10 but I don't know if I can really count it off half a play.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boardgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgames</span></a></p>
Brandon M.<p>January was a busy month.</p><p>Every year I participate in the play 100 games challenge on BGG. So, as is tradition, I blasted through a bunch of solo games in January to run up my score early then coast for the rest of the year.</p><p>Not everything was solo and/or digital though.</p><p><a href="https://tabletop.vip/tags/bgstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bgstats</span></a> <a href="https://tabletop.vip/tags/boardgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgames</span></a> <a href="https://tabletop.vip/tags/boardgamearena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgamearena</span></a></p>
17M d20s in a Trenchcoat<p>I hit 100/100 new* <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boardgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgames</span></a> for 2023 on Crimmas morning, thanks to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boardgamearena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgamearena</span></a> (Spirits of the Forest, 5.4/10). Maybe it's cheating to spam fillers like this. A few of the last 10 also felt like they really wanted 3+ players but I played at 2 to check a box. Whatever. I skipped all the conventions this year for Reasons.</p><p>* Includes 10 expansions and 2 games that I'd played so long ago I'd forgotten everything about them, all counting as half a game each.</p>
Board.Game.Breakdown<p>Just finished my first game of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ForestShuffle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForestShuffle</span></a> on <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a> and I have no idea what was going on. Maybe because there was a lot of time between turns but it was hard to keep up with what I was trying to do in my Tableau. Also, I had like a million trees and very few animals. Not sure I will play on BGA again.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGame</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TableTop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TableTop</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TableTopGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TableTopGames</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a></p>
Acariâtre<p>La pratique du jeu de société en ligne (BoardGameArena et consorts) permet d'enchaîner les parties d'un même jeu, jusqu'à atteindre des nombres impossibles en physique.</p><p>[Comme mes 666 (!) parties de Res Arcana à ce jour 😈 ]</p><p>Elle multiplie aussi rapidement le nombre d'adversaires affrontés.</p><p><a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/j2s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>j2s</span></a> <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/boardgamearena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgamearena</span></a> <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/pratiquebga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pratiquebga</span></a></p>
Dr Alice Violett<p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a> has been soooooo flaky since the outage the other week 😕 <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a></p>
Dr Alice Violett<p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a> seems to be down 😬 <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a></p>
17M d20s in a Trenchcoat<p>Trying a few rounds of Forest Shuffle on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a>. It's a hand management tableau builder where you're trying to assemble a woodland community for points.</p><p>So far my wins have been backed by getting one of the ~10 engine cards (out of ~180?) in my opening hand. Not sure if this game needs a house rule like Wingspan, where those cards are distributed equitably instead of conferring a huge advantage to the first lucky player. 7.5/10 but that's probably being buoyed by my wins <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boardgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgames</span></a></p>
Board.Game.Breakdown<p>If you're a fan of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Canvas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canvas</span></a> it is now playable on <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a> </p><p>If you haven't seen Canvas, check out my written review and How To Play video at the links below. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoardGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGame</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TableTopGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TableTopGames</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/mc7WxWobVHI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/mc7WxWobVHI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://boardgamebreakdown.com/canvas-review/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">boardgamebreakdown.com/canvas-</span><span class="invisible">review/</span></a></p>
17M d20s in a Trenchcoat<p>Once again it looks like I'm going to be hitting my new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boardgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgames</span></a> goal for the month by spamming fillers on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a>. (They're running some kind of advent calendar with new content, so that certainly helps.)</p><p>I tried Dragon Bridge, a tug-of-war duel where you try to escape off one end of the titular bridge or shove your opponent of the other, depending on where the titular dragon is. Winning mostly revolves around the timing where the ends switch. Not bad but I prefer other 1v1s. 5.0/10</p>
Daniel Solis<p>I often make Seattle-Portland my first turn in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TicketToRide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TicketToRide</span></a>. I am a monster.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoardGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGame</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoardGameGeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameGeek</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoardGameArena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGameArena</span></a></p>