Galaxy Trucker – The Big ExpansionOverview:I’m going to make the assumption that if you’re reading this you have probably either played Galaxy Trucker, or at least know about the game and how it works, so I won’t go into detail about the idea of the game itself. The Big Expansion contains 6 ...

As a hardcore Race for the galaxy fan (I rank it third in my collection), I was eagerly awaiting the expansion, to see if it could improve an already great game.I must admit that my anticipation somewhat shrank when I heard that it would only contain a limited number of new cards and when I saw the ...

Hasbro has announced the following updates to the Game of Monopoly. General Rule Changes: Monopoly – Players may now buy properties without any paying any money up front, but will require balloon payments later in the game. Properties (and their mortgage values) will climb drastically as t...

How does one begin to write a strategy guide for one of the hottest and most popular games on the Geek? You start by asking a rhetorical question and then you answer that question anyway. This is going to be a fairly long strategy guide with a full card review of the E deck. I’m not putting i...

I ran across this today, and not only is it very educational, but it's gaming related too! [Here's just a sample, see the original for the full text.]Source: http://bygonebureau.com/2008/10/01/the-financial-crisis-as-e..."The Financial Crisis, as Explained to My Fourteen-Year-Old Sister"by Kevin Ng...

Just curious if it's too soon to start discussing and organizing this years Secret Santa. Is it going to happen this year?...

When I was youngI never needed anyoneAnd playing solitaire was funThose days are goneMonday aloneI call up all the friends I knowWhen I dial the telephoneNobody’s homeAll by myselfDon’t wanna gameAll by myselfAnymoreAs I recounted in this thread I was all alone Monday night, and I was interested...

The BGG faithful have a tendency to always focus on what is coming next, to be looking for the next great fix.On one hand, that is no surprise because most people here consume games faster than Jughead devours burgers... but it did make me stop and wonder whether older games get the appreciation the...

I've been a true "gamer" for most of my life, just like most on BGG. Although I've enjoyed casual games and the classics like Clue and Monopoly, I was always on the lookout for those games that were a bit different, a bit more complex or immersive. Role playing games filled that void for awhile, but...

My friend and I played 2P advanced TGS for the first time tonight. We have played the base game against one another well over 100 times. I need to caveat that we had printed out versions of the new home worlds months ago, and have been playing with them in the deck for the last 50 or so games (we ...

I'm a sucker for cool maps. I love opening up a new game, unfolding the board, and then gazing at a gorgeous map.When I see maps I start imagining little pieces on them.Here are some of the most interesting maps from the blog Strange Maps. Some of these maps are funny, some are weird and disturbin...

As there are so many folks out there who can't attend to Essen and don't know anybody who goes there and as I don't know how many people out there are ready to send some postcards away, I want to offer everybody who wants a postcard to send them one.Rules:- PLEASE send me a geekmail with your postal...

In Age of Conan, you will find 12 different sculptures - based on concept sketches by Matteo Macchi - depicting the armies, heroes and villains of the Hyborian Age. And here, you can preview them all!In Age of Conan, each player is in control of the fate of one of the 4 major kingdoms of Hyboria –...

So, I walk into one of my area game stores, which I really haven't in many months. And I see, on a nice little front facing shelf space, my latest game, Aapep.My son comes over and yells "Oh COOL!!!"This brings the owner by to see what excited him so much. I tell him its my game. I ask how much h...

My favourite geeklist used to be MontyCircus's Ultimate Optimum # of Players List. It was made mostly obsolete this past May, when BGG implemented official polls for optimum number of players for each game. Mostly... the thing that's missing from the official polls is a convenient summary of the res...

Here are the results of the poll I posted last week, "Which Are the Most Influential Games?"I left open to the voting participants to decide for themselves what they consider to be influential, and how. My thanks to the over 300 members who participated and voted....

Fill in the blank - a short review of RftG: TgS. Disclaimer: I´ve been prowling around on BGG for more than 3 years now, but except for a few unnotable posts I´ve contributed nothing of value (at least in a geekgold way). I couldn´t come up with a funny or witty geeklist or never had the patience...