Top 5 Games from Essen 2018
With around 1400 games being released at Essen this year, I haven’t quite managed to play all of them yet! So I’m compiling my list from a rather narrow sample, but I’ve certainly played...
Rules Videos
I picked up a copy of The City of Kings recently. I tasked my son with punching out all of the components (fortunately, he’s still young enough to be enthusiastic about this!) and I...
The 10×10 Challenge – Part 1
At the start of the year, my friend Steve approached me and asked if I wanted to take part in the 10×10 challenge at The Dice Cup (my local boardgame café). “What’s that?” I...
The Year Ahead 2018
2017 has been a year of investing in projects behind the scenes. From the Boardgame Opinions channel to the development of new games, we have been working hard to improve the quality of what...
Classics: Twilight Struggle
I buy virtually all my games from my local boardgame café: The Dice Cup. Prior to it opening, I bought my games from one of the owners, David Smith, who ran a small boardgame...
Solo Games
Both my wife and son are away at the moment. Noah is spending a week with his cousins and my wife has gone ‘wild camping’ with a friend of hers. Apparently this means sleeping...
Why Are My Ratings So High?
I recently compiled my Top 30 Games of All Time. As part of this process, I went through all the games that I have ever rated on BoardGameGeek (BGG). I don’t always remember to...
Two-Player Games
Recently, my local boardgame café (The Dice Cup) started running a two-player games night. My initial reaction was, “Eh? Why would you want to get a bunch of people together only to play two-player...
Designing with Others
Most people who have had a go at designing a game jot down a few ideas, raid their games collection for components and then have a play… on their own. They don’t usually show...
What is a Game?
Last night at the Dice Cup, I was chatting to some people playing Concept. In Concept players take it in turns to try to communicate a concept (a word or a phrase) to everyone...
