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The retreat didn't actually have a name. I call it the Yuhang retreat simply because it was organised by Yuhang. This was a private event of a group of boardgamers in Kuala Lumpur coming together for 3 days of gaming, staying at an Airbnb at Taman OUG. I didn't know Yuhang well before this. It was Jon who asked me whet
The Tokyo Game Market has long been a hotbed of innovation, especially where trick-takers are concerned. Sometimes the games don’t work entirely as intended, but, hey, that’s what it takes to transform the world one small iteration at a time. The bricks of the forum weren’t laid in a day. Case in poin
The Jay Bell is back in the Gumbo Pot, and we are playing some of BJ's favorite two player games. In this video, we play THE YELLOW HOUSE published by 25th Century Games and designed by GEONIL.
If you’re not interested in buying games on sale, then please ignore this… But it’s time for the annual Amazon Prime day (well 4 day) sale, and lots of bargains to be had on games. Below is a list of … Continue reading →
Sometimes life just hands you an impossible task and you have to do your best at it, even knowing that you’re probably screwed. Sometimes wargames are like that! Welcome to another tale from the Combat Commander ladder, that monthly tournament of one of the...
by Kristian Karlberg The Birth of JackpotVersion 0 - 2020 The earliest version of Jackpot: Set the Reel was born at KalCon, a small Swedish board game convention where Kristian was demoing and recruiting backers for Goetia: Nine Kings of Solomon. During the event, inspiration struck and this childhood memory of us play
Red Castle Games owner Matthew Mičetić told BoardGameWire expanding scope to welcome young people, families and casual gamers was one of the biggest opportunities for game stores today. The post “The future isn’t just about selling products”: award-winning board game retailer on why creating community is key to success
I'm not a Bridge player, but I have been reading about the game. This part of the rule surprises me. After the contract is closed, Dummy lays down his/her hand and thereafter doesn't take part in the game anymore. From a game design perspective this looks silly. It excludes one of the players from the game. Dummy essen
Welcome to Isofar, a wild land severe in its beauty. As a member of the Isofarian guard, life is never dull. You try to keep the peace among your fellow Isofarians (a never-ending job), as well as deal with constant threats from the aggressive Falmund Empire to the south. That’s the phrase that first caught [R
Ever since I slept on Bestiary of Sigillum: Collector’s Edition a couple years ago, I decided that CrowD Games should be closer to the top of my list of favorite publishers. As a result, I’ve spent a lot of time with their catalog over the last two years, playing through every single game the team at CrowD would send m
Nippon: Zaibatsu—2026’s updated version of the 2015 original, Nippon—is so hot in my gaming circles that I had the chance to play the base game three times over the course of a week, and it seemed like the game was popping up at game nights all over Chicago for the first couple months after it hit the market. After dra
With this My Favorite Wargame Cards Series, I hope to take a look at a specific card from the various wargames that I have played and share how it is used in the game. I am not a strategist and frankly I am not that good at games but I do understand how things should […]
Read our Leopards Eat Your Face review covering gameplay, rules, pros and cons, player count, story mechanics, pricing, and whether this political satire tabletop RPG is worth playing today.
Asmodee expects a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for social games of between 4% and 8% between 2025 and 2030, compared to about 4% for the wider board games market. The post Asmodee unveils debut titles from recently-launched party game studio Moodbox first appeared on .
For many people, Spiel des Jahres is something they encounter only once a year. A list of nominees appears, winners are announced, and the familiar Red Pawn finds its way onto board game boxes that in turn appear on shop shelves. Yet, the award itself is only the most visible part of the organisation's work. Behind the
The digital world has completely transformed the way we connect, work, and have fun. As technology continues to evolve,...
Photon, Living Light from MSH has hexproof. Which spells in the set could remove the creature without having enough power to block and destroy it?
I'm trying to get my partner into playing Magic with me, and she is not very competitive. She likes boardgames, but not strategy games. What are some creative ways to introduce her to the game and help her build confidence to enjoy it?
The voting for the 2025 Meeples Choice Awards is complete and, due to ties, there are more winning games than usual. Instead of the usual three winning games, this time there are five. The winners are: LORD OF THE RINGS: … Continue reading →
Ready for a confession? I didn’t love Balatro, the roguelike poker deck-building game from a couple years back. Don’t get me wrong, the number-go-up part of my brain adored Balatro. But the rest, the foam of consciousness so certain it’s in control of the mammalian beast, the me suspicious of anything
One player is Sauron. The rest are heroes trying to stop him. Someone is going to be here for a while. The post Middle-Earth Quest First Impressions appeared first on Jesta ThaRogue.
The award aims to celebrates "everything that’s the best about gaming", with previous winners across the award’s 26-year run having included Blood Rage designer Eric Lang, Nigerian games industry publisher and evangelist NIBCARD, and the entire ‘actual play’ movement of people livestreaming and podcasting roleplaying g
Back in the early 2020s, Dire Wolf Digital had a huge hit with Paul Dennen’s Dune Imperium, a classic blending of deckbuilding mechanics and worker placement that quickly rose into the Boardgame Geek Top 100 and currently sits in the Top 10. They came...
Deep Regrets Board Game Review covers gameplay, components, mechanics, pros and cons, player experience, and whether this 2025 horror fishing board game delivers engaging thematic push-your-luck fun overall verdict included
The biggest reason Stonemaier Games hasn’t returned to crowdfunding is the gap between asking customers for payment and actually delivering the product to those customers. Even if a game is 99% production ready leading into the campaign, roughly 6 months are needed for pre-production, production, and freight ship
New on Store Shelves: 17 Board Game Releases & Restocks - Monthly Board Game Buyer's GuideNew on Store Shelves: 17 Board Game Releases & Restocks - Monthly Board Game Buyer's Guide
Opposite a 1NT bid, I need at least 8 high card points to bid Stayman (except for transfer or "garbage" Stayman). If we find our eight card fit and partner has 16, we are barely even money to make four of major with 24 high card points. How much does one need to bid Stayman opposite a 2NT opener? I'd want abo
Welcome to this week’s batch of crowdfunding campaigns. We have a variety of offerings here, so we hope you will find something that catches your eye. Also, if you want to chat with the BGQ team, join our Discord Server where we talk about games, movies, sports, and other fun stuff. Check it out and […] Sou
From the rulesheet: “A curse has cast a shadow over the valley, causing the inhabitants to run from the villages and the animals to flee their nests. From the top of a ridge, a mysterious creature named Buh has noticed the desolation and decided to bring the light back. As they stroll through the valley, Buh uses their
Pick up any of these party games and make your next party or get-together a little more rowdy and a lot more fun. Really Loud Librarians Really Loud Librarians is all about knowing words and shouting them as quickly as you can. Teams of players draw a category like sports teams or landmarks, move their […] Board
We have interviewed the venerable designer Ty Bomba on numerous occasions over the 10-year life of the blog. In fact, I counted up the interviews and to date we have done 18 total! Wow but the last one we did was in January 2023 and we have just not had him on since. No reason […]
If I have a Shantotto, Tactician Magician in play and I cast a kicked Rite of Replication does Shintotto get +4 or +9 power?
Roux Dat: catching up on recent plays of RECALL, LUZ and revisiting DUCK & COVER
by Justin Bell Ray Charles and I agree: night time really IS the right time, particularly when it comes to my energy level.Some of that is tied to the fact that I have children (ages 12 and 9) and I have a wife, all of whom typically go to bed by 9 or 10 PM every night. That means Dedicated Justin Time starts around 10
Granted, Swords and Spells might be official, but that does not necessarily mean that it’s all that good. When Dungeons & Dragons was just starting out, way back in the 70s, there weren’t any rules for two battling armies. So good ol’ Gary decided to remedy that. While thinking about it, he realiz
Randomness is the single most polarizing design tool in modern video games. Players who love it call it the...
Buy Trinket Trove from Amazon.com When compared to big box games, it can be easy for avid gamers to overlook games that come in a small box. Fewer components, a thinner rulebook, and smaller table presence often leads to a lighter game, which can be seen as a negative by gamers who have large collections consisting of
Silver Bayonet recreates the pivotal November 1965 clashes between the US 1st Air Cavalry Division and a full North Vietnamese Army division in the Ia Drang Valley. Originally published in 1990 as GMT Games first ever release and a CSR Award winner, this 25th Anniversary Edition refreshes and streamlines the original o
It’s been almost a year since my last Friday Night Shots post (though yes, it is Saturday), but last weekend’s convention gave me a couple of ideas to explore. Though sadly the bar is closed, the whiskey does keep flowing! And producing boardgame thoughts...
What the magazines said in 1972, what Joe said in 2010, and what the whole record can — and can’t — tell us 2026-06-19 The Year of the Rat: A Game 304 People Rated and Almost No One Replayed In December 1971 a reader picked up Strategy & Tactics #35, punched the counters out of […]
Hardback is a deck-building word game designed by Jeff Beck and Tim Fowers, and was published by Fowers Games in 2018. Perhaps it's considered to be a spiritual successor to Paperback, Hardback uses the same deck-building word game core, but the mechanical changes to the way you acquire cards and how those cards work t
by Danielle Reynolds “Love” for many can be a roller coaster of ups and downs. I had a six-year relationship with a woman I almost married and after that break up my friends were pushing me to go on apps because they wanted to play “swipe” (and probably have me find love). Most of them were in monogamous relationships
As someone who frequently goes to thrift stores, I’ve seen some games so many times they barely register in my mind. I’m referring to games like, The Game of Life, Battleship, and multiple editions of Trivial Pursuit. Occasionally, this board game treasure hunting uncovers a game I’ve never heard of that is both comple
The saloon doors suddenly burst open behind you as your boots skid across the dusty wooden boards of the sidewalk. A split-second later, gunfire cracks through the afternoon air, the bullet ricocheting off a pail of water, sending startled townsfolk diving for cover. Diving behind an old barrel offers you a moment of s
During the lifetime of a game taster, once in a while we stumble upon unheard of games which take us by surprise. This Game is Killer: Frozen Horror is one such game for me. It is not a ground-breaking genre nor is it a highly unusual setting. It is just how well the game is put together in a concise way, plus som
By Mark McLaughlin & Fred Schachter Hopefully, this series is engendering your interest and enthusiasm regarding this third offering of the “Ancient Civs” Series: Ancient Civilizations of East Asia. Here’s another glimpse into one of the game’s nineteen Civilizations: The Northern Wei. The Northern Wei (often refer
Zenith isn’t an easy game to classify. Part set collection, part lane-battler, even part paxgame, it’s full of tight contests and nasty tug-of-wars. (Tugs-of-war?) Really, though, it’s more than the sum of its parts, a strange but wonderful artifact by Grégory Grard and Mathieu Roussel that doesn̵
Arrange tiles to create homes for animals and work on completing challenges in Cascadia. The post Bears, Elk, and Cascadia: A Farewell to a Great Game appeared first on Gameward Bound.
One of these days, I’m going to learn that doing these Boardgame Geek century posts too early is possibly going to cause a rip in the space-time continuum, like what’s happening right about now. What, you didn’t feel that? We’ve all traded places with...
Tom Franklin Over the June 5-6 weekend, QuestCon 2026 took place just outside of Raleigh, NC, about four miles from my house. Honestly, I didn’t realize there were that many board gamers in my area. I knew statistically there must be some, but enough to put on a game-playing convention? Nah. [caption id="attachment_331
It has become a small tradition of mine – once a year I step away from the regular monthly Cube4Me storage and sorting updates to mark something special. This time it is the fourth anniversary of the cooperation between Cube4Me and The Boardgames Chronicle! If you would like to see where we stood twelve months [&
Well, it’s that time of year again!   So, it’s been a few years since I came up to Columbus for the origins game show. Honestly, it is probably been since covid. However this year, the stars have aligned, and … Continue reading →
 In Origin Story, you’re not an established superhero. Instead, you’re building your hero piece by piece and taking your first super-steps. Origin Story is a superhero game. But unlike other superhero games, we’re not focusing as strongly on the powers and battles. Instead, Origin Story asks you
Whether you’re an avid rugby watcher, a passionate tabletop games player, or a voracious knitter, hobbies ground us. They keep us mentally healthy and active, and most people build their communities around their hobbies. According to Market Reports World, almost 1.4 billion people worldwide engage in some type of craft
After years of screens filling every spare minute, people are gathering around tables again. Board games now offer something...
Board game budget problems almost never feel like budget problems in the moment. They feel like a reasonable snack...
This is happening 20-21 Jun 2026 at the Sabah Art Gallery. I will be there together with many other Malaysian game designers, and also many from overseas. Early copies of my latest game, Malaysian Holidays, published by Specky Studio, will be available! If you are in KK, come visit me!
I just want something cleared because I am not a professional. Would I keep the creatures stolen with Loki by activating the Sundial before my end step?
At this point, the civilization genre needs an intervention. We could all sit in a circle on folding chairs we borrowed from the local church. Set out a little tray of cheeses and olives. Have plenty of tissues on hand for everyone. Speak in that voice we reserve for serious moments. “Hey,” someone would sa
Read our Fromage board game review covering gameplay, rotating board mechanics, components, pros and cons, player counts, replayability, and whether this clever cheese-themed strategy game is worth buying today now.