My 10 yo has been asking for me to teach her #Earth so we gave it a go today. She did really well for all that was going, especially since I threw in the two expansions (Abundance and Animal Kingdom) which I had only tried once.

The animals are interesting. We both used two that were each rated "easy." My Red Panda didn't do a ton but it did help me get more cards in the early game.

Her quokka was a little more interactive, having to move around her tableau, generating sprouts.

I am still not fully sold on the Seeds from Abundance. Granted, she did get to use one to germinate (digging for a card with a specific trait) that greatly helped her meet a Fauna goal.

Thoughts on either expansion?

#BoardGames #TableTopGaming #TableTopGames #BoardGame

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Red Panda from Earth expansion

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Quokka from Earth expansion

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2 player family game of Earth

If you want my #boardgames and #boardgaming content, please hop over to @jeffowski@dice.camp

"The wargames market was basically inaccessible to people that were part of the anti-war movement, unless it was couched in a way that wasn’t revisiting the atrocities that people were seeing on TV coming out of Vietnam." Jon Peterson with Angela Chen & Clara Collier for Asterisk https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/shall-we-play-a-game?src=longreads #war #games #boardgames #rpg #longreads #history #conflict

Taught my 10 yo #3RingCircus. It might have been a little tough for her as I had to help her a lot with the decisions when it came to playing cards or putting on shows. She just really only wanted to out shows on. Oh yeah I forgot, she won by 8 :/

Was going to work on next review and video set this week and was planning on doing Imperium Classics but might go for this first. Thought?

#BoardGames #TableTopGaming #TableTopGames #BoardGame

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Completed 2 player 3 Ring Circus

That's one way to get some playtests done...

https://mainichi.jp/articles/20260410/k00/00m/040/117000c

#BoardGames

Game devs, drop the keyboard and play this drinking game. Then continue coding to experience real vibe coding.

https://ludocity.org/wiki/Tablero_de_Yinzer

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Tablero de Yinzer is based on Tablero da Gucci, which in turn is based, allegedly, on a gambling game called Tablero de Jesus. Tablero de Yinzer is the version Tablero da Gucci played in Pittsburgh, as adapted by members of Obscure Games Pittsburgh.

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#Yinzer #Pittsburgh #Beer #Games #BoardGames

@ArchaeoIain Carolina to the far left has been one of the most frequent participants in my RPG sessions since they started in late 2020. But you are probably referring to my #boardgames nights, where the percentage of women is much lower.

#ttrpg

I am starting a digital #APA about #boardgames . Contributions are very welcome. Initial draft guidelines are at https://tekeli.li/of-dice-and-meeples/ .

I'm at the ASU maker space etching and cutting 10 Print boards. Cardboard now. Wood in the future.

I am trying to make the cardboard games for less than five dollars so I can afford to give them away.

#games #boardgames #10Print

10 Print Red Wins Purple Slides

The red won the combat. On the next turn purple slides into combat with the red. Vengeance is mine!

In this game you change the battle terrain.

#games #BoardGames #gaming #10Print

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10 Print red wins purple slides shows how the slide mechanism works. After losing a battle to red on purple's next turn he can slide into combat and attack red.

10 Print Starting Position

To play the tactical combat game the corner squares and the pieces are place on the three tiles in front of the player. 2-4 players can play.

#games #BoardGames #gaming #10Print

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10 Print starting position shows the corner squares removed and the pieces on opposite sides of the board. This is the setup for a two player game.

10 Print Maze Art

These 2 1/4" tiles were purchased and the laser etched the lines creating the maze art.

#games #boardgames #gaming

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10 Print preliminary game board showing 25 2 1/4" tiles laid out on the board creating a maze.

I did laser print a full set of 25 tiles for my 10 Print game. Next step is to lay a piece of Baltic Birch plywood into the laser printer and have it cut and decorate all the tiles and the surrounding border with one push of the button. Glue on the back and add the dice an pieces (meeples) and it's ready to play.

My son, Kier, aka @dadget , is going to help me with the SVG file to feed the laser printer.

So, that's my game news for this week.

#games #boardgames #gamedev

AI simulations reveal a Roman era board game in the Netherlands, pushing Europe’s blocking games back centuries

A limestone object recovered from the Roman settlement of Coriovallum, now Heerlen in the Netherlands, has provided rare evidence for how people played board games during the Roman period. The object, preserved in Het Romeins Museum, carries a pattern of incised lines on a flattened surface...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/roman-era-board-game-in-the-netherlands/

@archaeology

#archaeology #boardgames #romanempire

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AI simulations reveal a Roman era board game in the Netherlands, pushing Europe’s blocking games back centuries A limestone object recovered from the Roman settlement of Coriovallum, now Heerlen in the Netherlands, has provided rare evidence for how people played board games during the Roman period. The object, preserved in Het Romeins Museum, carries a pattern of incised lines on a flattened surface. Archaeologists long suspected a link to play, yet no known Roman or earlier European game matches the design.

@CurtAdams It turns out one of our friends got a special card, misunderstood how it scored, and spent an hour doing a stupid strategy. All it did was interfere with the rest of us without getting him meaningful points (he was last out of 5). As soon as we explained how he wasn’t earning any points doing this, he stopped. The game ended like 15 minutes later.
#gamenight #boardgames

It’s game night. We are playing Architects of the West Kingdom. It is really complicated. So many pieces. So many interactions. It’s not really obvious what a winning strategy is when you’re a noob. They say supposedly a 90 minute game. We are on minute 150 and we are about 2/3 to the end.

#boardgames #gamenight #games

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Photo of the game board with cards and pieces on a colourful green background.

What do centuries-old stones, a self-winding watch and child's sock have in common?

Such time capsules often hide in our cupboards: lost treasures, family heirlooms, old diaries or dry pressed flowers. It is not their monetary value that matters, but the stories they tell.

After reading similar posts from @AlexWolfe, @daj and @hryggrbyr, I started to think of my own list.

🌐 https://blog.gridranger.dev/my-oldest-things

#blog #post #indieweb #familyhistory #reading #bloggingchallenge #boardgames

https://youtu.be/bacV44nZDYk
This Board Game Teaching Method Changed Everything

#TabletopGames #Boardgames #gamer

But I also picked two more, because I was in a store and browsing is hazardous.

Thanks to @alicemcalicepants for the Things in Rings recommendation.

I picked up Loop because it looks like Mille Bourne on the L.

#BoardGames #BoardGame

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Picture of two games. One is the size of a deck of cards and has emblazoned on it "LOOP. THE ELEVATED CARD GAME" It is the "Renovated Edition" and boasts "All New Event Cards." The other is about twice the size of Loop, and is called Things In Rings. It has the basic three-ring representation of a Venn Diagram, colored red, green, blue, yellow, purple and orange. Outside the boundaries of the circles are things meant to represent types of things: ambulance, rocket, pretzel, yoyo, crab, all sorts of things.

Thank you to everyone who offered suggestions, or who seconded other posters suggestions. I've got games to check out still.

The game I landed on was...

#BoardGame #BoardGames

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Picture of the boardgame Dorf Romantik. Its cover has a stylized landscape separated into hex tiles. Prominently, a windmill occupies a hex that has nearly landed on the white hexagonal space in that landscape. Nearby is a winding river that runs by the tile edges. Looking at the windmill are a childlike figure and what may be a turkey.

@RogerBW

The games are all competitive types, but I'd say the majority of play in descending order is Ticket To Ride, Splendor, Azul, Mille Bourne, and Codenames.

I'm just trying not to exclude the ones who *don't* want to (depending on the game) compete against or backstab their friends.

#BoardGames

I'm thinking of bringing a #BoardGame with me to friends this Christmas. A cooperative game, because one of the people there isn't fond of competitive games.

Now I have the various Pandemic games, including the Cthulhu one, but I was looking for something different, given the holiday.

Does anyone have suggestions? It can be reasonably complex. I live nearby a games store, but even if they don't have it I'd be interested in reading your suggestions.

Thanks.

#BoardGames

please tell me your favourite board, card, roleplaying and dice games that involves or is build around cooperation between players!

plus points from themes like solar punk, nature, activism, sabotage, ecosystems, anarchism, mutual aid, anti capitalism, healing, building community, acab….

#boardgames

I always like to see games, especially zines and smaller games, I crowdfunded on the shelves of game stores!

#TTRPG #BoardGames #CrowdFunding

I love Roborally. My oldest son does too. We've got a first edition (with the metal robots) with a bunch of expansions (got it all second hand ages ago), and we've been playing it a lot lately. To my son's great frustration, I always win. I think we've played at least 8 games these past few weeks, and I've won all of them, but he's determined to beat me. He wants to play me at every possible opportunity until he finally beats me, and I love that tenacity. But so far, no luck. He claims I'm lucky, and I keep saying that a streak like that can't possibly be just luck. I also have my crappy hands, but somehow I manage to pick just slightly better routes, I guess. I manage the severe twists and turns of the more complex boards just slightly better than he does, I think.

And we play this game on hard mode: one complex board (Cannery Row is my favourite), 6 flags criss cross across the board so you meet each other a lot and have to navigate nearly impossible passages. And every death after the first, you lose the last flag you won.

Anyway, today he was having a great day: an important math test for his finals that he was dreading had gone surprisingly well. Lots of things went his way today. He cooked, and to everybody's surprise, even my very picky youngest son loved it. I was having a terrible day; didn't feel well, tired, work didn't go well. So he figured, if he was ever going to win, it was today. His lucky day, my off day.

And he did very well. Laser Maze was our board, his favourite. He took the lead, I died somewhere, I had one bad hand after another, I even made a bad mistake somewhere. Not only that, my wife threw him a popsicle for desert, and hit me in the head instead.

Eventually, he had flag 4 and was on his way to 5. I had flag 3, and realised I needed to take some chances if I still wanted to win, so I confronted him at the edge of the board, near several conveyors that would gladly throw one of us off the board. I gambled wrong and died again, and he was now certain of his victory. Fortunately, because my losing flag 3, I respawned at flag 2, which was close to flag 5, so I could interfere with him, try to push him off course. It didn't work, and he escaped. So I picked up flag 3 and a special (the tractor beam, deadly in some very specific circumstances), ignored the flags and just went hunting.

I caught him when he was a turn away from victory. Pulled him away with the tractor beam, but to a safe spot. He would have jumped off the board if I'd pulled him only once, but I pulled twice, and he was saved by a wall. He went power down (to repair). I drew a great hand, and pulled him onto a conveyor that dropped him in a pit. He lost flag 5 and had to start at flag 4 again. I was headed to flag 4. He got stuck in front of flag 5, and I got there a turn after him. Suddenly it was a race again. I thought I got a bad hand with no good turns and couldn't follow him, until I realized I could take a completely different route to another corner. It was trickier to get to flag 6 from there, but not impossible.

Then disaster struck. He'd accummulated too much damage, and was forced to power down in a laser, so he woke up with 5 damage. His 4 cards could only get him in the wrong direction into another laser, and while he went the wrong way, I passed him on the way to flag 6. By the time he had finally powered down in a safe place, I reached flag 6.

Still undefeated. My son massively frustrated because his certain victory was stolen from him by such a ridiculous twist.

He will beat me some day, but today was not that day.

#roborally #boardgames

Here's the selection I'm suggesting for #boardgames night.

Boardgames this afternoon. Time for an early night. STIR STIR STIR! This is one of my favourite games 😍 Quacks of Quedlingburg #weekend #BoardGames

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A table with a boardgame spread out. Players gave their own board that is a green spiral inside a cauldron. My colour is red, so I have a red centre piece, red mouse token and a red potion bottle.

@draft13
I have this constant game-theory problem that some people might find interesting. I'm not strong enough to play to win. I almost always play to be NOT-LAST.

This means that to me it's useless to squander my resources on attacking the leading player. It would just mean that B wins instead of A, and I'm still last. I need to attack my *weakest* opponent.

#boardgames

@draft13
Yeah, auctions and bidding are fun. I'll happily play anything where we're competing for something on a shared board. Here are some recent favourites of mine.

https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2024/09/09/favourite-boardgames-2014-24/

#boardgames

@draft13
I do not, no. Wingspan is a huge international hit. I absolutely detest Wingspan.

#boardgames

@draft13
No, I'm saying that a lot of games with personal boards or tableaux have low interaction.

#boardgames

@draft13
There are certainly some games with personal little player boards that have high interaction, such as Hansa Teutonica.

#boardgames

@lordsplodge
But we are in agreement that low-interaction #boardgames do exist and are very popular?

@lordsplodge
That was my exact reaction to Descent and Gloomhaven. "Yay. 1970s D&D except that here the only way to interact with the world is to hit things."

#boardgames #ttrpg