Gameritis

Over the past couple of years, a lot of things influenced my board game purchases. Video reviews, blogs, podcasts, price points, gameplay...

Being a huge fan of dice games, I'm largely aware of the amount of luck that can occur in each game. Whatever your best laid plans a...

Checking a board game to see if it has solo play has become second nature to me, and has been mostly the driving force behind my purchase...

Earlier this month, I sat myself and finally learned how to play La Granja solo. But instead of just playing it the one time for one nigh...

It's easy to claim that I just don't have the funds to put up front for Kickstarter projects, or even that a project doesn't ...

There are A LOT of board game reviewers out there, and a lot of them employ very similar review styles - a quick overview of rules, final...

Hello, folks! Just thought I'd try something new here for a change. You see, this blog's been running for some time now (jeez, ...

Everyone has a different opinion on whether or not to sleeve or not sleeve cards in board games. There are some valid points made for eit...

I don't believe in "best games of the year" lists. Mostly because of the abstract naming of the list itself. It's reall...

Earlier this year, in an effort to attain some realistic goals for myself in my board game acquisitions, I replace the "wishlist...

I side-glance at the digital clock on the stove. 10:13 PM. I have some time. Kids are in bed. Wife is asleep. I'm still wide awa...

Forget about "The Cult of the New." Forget about saving money. Forget about lack of time. Forget about #10x10in20-whatever. For...

I'm an indecisive mess when it comes to choosing what board games to play solo. Every night, when I have some free time to myself, I ...

I've come a long way from my first DIY dice tray, back in the day. Back then, the only thing that drove me was NOT paying a premium...

There's no doubt that accruing a board game collection is costly, with some board games almost as high as $100 for just the base set,...

There's a growing trend of official solo variants for board games, and as a person who often only has time to play by himself, I coul...

There's an old adage that I started, a method in which to get your games out of their shelf slumber - emptying the box . It's a r...

[Editor's Note: I realized too late that I DID do a rant before about solo gaming . To clarify, this is more a disdain to people tha...

The table.

Curious, because this flat, rigid envelope came from the Netherlands. I know no one from the Netherlands.