Category Archives: Best Of

Let’s say you’re a salesman.  Which would seem the fairer method of determining your annual salary increase:  the size of your single biggest sale or the total sales you generated over the course of the year?  I imagine everyone would … Continue reading →

The results of the International Gamers Awards (IGA) have been announced and Stefan Feld’s Trajan (published by Ammonit Spiele) is the winner of the multi-player game award, while Uwe Rosenberg’s Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small (from publishers Lookout Games and Z-Man Games) takes the … Continue reading →

Every year, the Spielfrieks user group assigns the Meeples Choice Awards to their three favorite games of the previous calendar year.  It’s a two-step process, and the first step, selecting the nominated games, was just completed.  The following 29 games … Continue reading →

“What’s your favorite game?”  This is the question that people invariably ask when you tell them that your hobby is board games, once it becomes apparent that you’re not talking about the standard fare with which they’re familiar.  More often … Continue reading →

OLDEST (pre-1990) Opinionated Gamers Collective Top 5: (1) Acquire (2) Crokinole tied with Die Macher (4) Bridge (5) Diplomacy tied with Survive! With this group, we’ve finally arrived at some truly old games, unlike the “old” games discussed on Monday … Continue reading →

OLDER (1990 – 1999) Opinionated Gamers Collective Top 5: (1) Euphrat & Tigris (2) El Grande tied with Tichu (4) Settlers of Catan (5) Showmanager With this group, we finally get to some games that are actually a bit old, … Continue reading →

We here at The Opinionated Gamers clearly love shiny, new games.  This fact is made abundantly clear by all the reviews of new releases that we do here and particularly by the recent roundtable discussion on the “cult of the … Continue reading →

It’s that time of the year again.  Yep, it is time to comb through those ole memory banks and dig up the most silky smooth of gaming experiences and avoid the tangled, knotted, bubble-gummed experiences that would be best cut … Continue reading →

The calendar may show that 2011 is history, but there’s plenty of last year’s games still to be played in 2012.  That’s the problem when there are tons of Essen games to go through and when a lot of English … Continue reading →

I really, really wanted to make this a top ten list… but then, thanks to the magic of Christmas, I had to add one more. So, I used my board game blogging superpowers to smoosh two of the games into … Continue reading →