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My Connections Streak Ends at 117. Damn!

August 30, 2025August 31, 2025 Allen

Connections is a game you can play on the New York Times website which involves taking a matrix of 16 words and arranging them into

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Board Game Report: Red Dust Rebellion

July 24, 2025July 24, 2025 Allen

Red Dust Rebellion (RDR) was recently released by GMT games. The game focuses on social, economic, and political control of Mars in the future, around

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The Joy and Heartbreak of Playing Combat Commander

May 24, 2025May 24, 2025 Allen

Fellow gamer and blog buddy Chris and I have recently played a couple of games of Combat Commander-Europe, using the Random Scenario Generator to pick

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Board games are for wranglin’, rustling’ robbin’, and arrestin’,

January 6, 2025January 6, 2025 Allen

Western Legends is a board game for 1-6 players set in a mythical part of the Old West. Each player is randomly assigned 2 historical

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Plum Island? Oh, the horror! What it is, and a report of our game.

March 31, 2024March 31, 2024 Allen

Game Play Overview The Plum Island Horror is a boardgame by GMT games that is cooperative and features a race against the clock in order

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A 3D Printed Insert for Plum Island Horror

February 26, 2024February 26, 2024 Allen
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Revisiting 7 Wonders and Thunder Alley

January 21, 2024February 6, 2024 Allen

These board games have been around for quite a while. A bit of research shows that 7 Wonders first arrived on the scene in 2010

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Update on Learning Chess Tactics

May 28, 2022January 12, 2024 moduspocus1

I recently had a blog entry on my journey in relearning chess. These past few weeks have had lots of learning and self discovery along

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Relearning Chess

May 10, 2022January 12, 2024 moduspocus1

Something clicked in my mind a few weeks ago that said “you should be playing chess”. I used to play quite a bit, so here’s

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Cuba Libre

July 10, 2020January 15, 2024 moduspocus1

One of my most played games is Cuba Libre. 4 players. Asymmetric. Mostly simulates political control during the late 50s Cuban Rebellion. It plays in

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