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 It’s the end of March and now the dust has settled enough to look back at my game-discoveries from 2022, and do a write up of my favourites…   Read more .

Back in 2020 I decided to do a top 25 games as a countdown to Jul over on Instagram . That was a fun experiment. This year I’ve decided to revisit it in a more… scientific manner. Part I: 25-50 Part II: 16-24 Part III: 7-15 Part IV: 4-6 Part V: 2-3 Part VI: 1

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2020 was an… interesting… year boardgamewise, and in this post I'll summarize some of my key findings, but first, some stats: I played 42 … things… for the first time according to BG Stats . 8 of them were expansions, so 34 new games, then. (Down from 97/88 last year.) Interestingly, 8 of my top 10 most played games of 2019 was new-to-me games, whereas in 2020 it was the opposite – only 2 of them were new-to-me.  Every year, since I started logging my board game plays semi-consistently back in 2013, more than half of all games played has been new-to-me. In 2020 it fell below one third. I seem to have been more keen to show my kids the classics than seeking out new games in these confined times… (Or, maybe even more importantly, I have hardly been to local board game cafés to test new games, I have hardly rented new games from our friendly board game rental store, I have hardly played games at friend’s ...

2019 was a good year boardgamewise. I played 97… things… for the first time according to BG Stats (some of them are not (even) on BoardGameGeek(!)). 9 of them are expansions, so 88 new games, then. It was difficult to cull this list down to a top 9, but here goes. (As usual this is not really my favourite nine games, but rather a kind of optimal games library of games I played in 2019. Horses for courses.) Filler games 9 of the 88 above-mentioned games were “roll and writes”/”flip and writes”/”random writes”, or what you might want to call them. Both of the games I ended up with as favourite filler games are. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Of Cardboard Sheep (@do_meeples_dream) on Feb 1, 2020 at 8:02am PST First one out is the great little Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale . This has you discovering lands for a particularly picky queen, or something. The theme is as good a fit as it gets ...