For more than a decade now, I’ve made a tradition of ordering my favorite games – all games I rate an 8 or higher. In spite of playing an ever increasing number of games – as I write this, I’ve … Continue reading
Top ten lists are difficult – especially when I don’t get to play some of the “big new games” for 6 months to a year after they’re released… so a few years back, I listed my Best New (to me!) Games … Continue reading
On Sunday 17th September the jury of the Gioco dell’Anno (Game of the Year) chose Potions Explosions as game of the year 2016. The game was devised by Stefano Castelli, Andrea Crespi and Lorenzo Silva and published by Horrible Games. … Continue reading
This is our third entry in an eleven-part series featuring trick taking games. This entry will focus on trick taking games from the early 1990s to 1995. During this era, German game designers started to put their own creative twists … Continue reading
Tricks and Trumps #2: Variations on the Classics This is our second entry in an eleven-part series featuring trick taking games. This entry will focus on trick taking games from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, which tended to closely … Continue reading
This is the first entry in an eleven-part series featuring trick taking games. We put more than 150 such games into a ratings spreadsheet, giving each Opinionated Gamer the chance to offer their rating. We decided to write about any … Continue reading
With 2015 now over, your intrepid Opinionated Gamers are taking a look back to answer the question on everyone’s mind about this time of year – what was the best game of 2015? Of course, all being opinionated, we can’t … Continue reading
After the recent birth of Gioco dell’Anno, Lucca Comics & Games award for the best gateway/family game that substituted Best of Show and the passing of Ludoteca Ideale, we miss a real award for gamers in Italy. We have one … Continue reading
BoardGameGeek announced the winners of the Golden Geek awards last week, including the Game of the Year – Splendor. The Opinionated Gamers unsurprisingly have diverse opinions about Splendor. But we thought, why stop there? Let’s share our opinions about all … Continue reading
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Reflections on Playing 1,000 Games (And My Personal Top 50)
Reflections on Playing 1,000 Games (And My Personal Top 50) Article by Chris Wray I recently added it up, and I realized that I’ve played a thousand different games. To many of my fellow Opinionated Gamers, that is a milestone … Continue reading →