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What are the Chances?
A large part of the joy of playing designer or luxury games is found in their visceral qualities – the beauty of the pieces or the weight of a component in your hands – but when you play a game you...
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The Eclectic
I find it interesting that the word “hobby” is associated with a casual interest in something. If someone admires a painting you did you might respond “Oh, it’s just a hobby,” which seems to suggest...
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The Epicurean
In another blog post I discussed the characteristics of “The Eclectic.” In the world of board game collecting, the Eclectic would be someone who focuses their collecting by not focusing much at all....
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The Expert
In earlier blog posts I discussed two types of collectors – The Eclectic and The Epicurean. The Eclectic bases his collecting on variety and rarity. The more unusual a game or a version of a game is,...
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Leisure Time?
There’s an old saying that if you make your hobby your job you’ll never work a day in your life. On the other hand, the quickest way to ruin a hobby is to make it feel like work. What I find...
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Being Resourceful – Part I
One thing I really enjoy is playing a game for the first time. There’s a mystery to be solved as the rules are first explained to you and your first game plays out. You see how all the different parts...
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Being Resourceful, Part II
In a previous blog post I discussed the idea that one way of learning a new game or improving your understanding of a game’s strategy is to figure out what resources are at work in the game and how...
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Being Resourceful, Part III
In previous blog posts I discussed how every game has its own resource that the crafty player must learn to control. In some games the resource is obvious since it is the same resource we use in real...
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Some Thoughts on Thinking, Part I
I have played many, many different games in the past few years, and even though I generally do fairly well when I play, I find that certain games are just more difficult for me than others. The ones I...
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Some Thoughts on Thinking, Part II
Previously I discussed the role of memorization in board games. In some games you are explicitly rewarded for being able to memorize pieces of information, whereas in other games memorization is...
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