A Gnome's Ponderings

When contemplating modern abstracts, two games that were huge for me and games I’m no longer that interested in are Hive and Blokus. Both of...

When I read up about Catchup, I decided that I needed to try it out. As it turned out, my account at Little Golem is still active so I wen t...

Very, very early in my explorations of boardgames, I came across the L-Game. It was Edward de  Bono 's first exercise in minimalist game...

As I have slowly been letting go enough to let our toddler play with some of Daddy's games, Bruno Faidutti's Babylon has come out to...

When I look at the school of German Family Games, a word I see a lot is elegant. But elegance is a word that can mean a lot of things to dif...

Tak belongs to that curious family of games that were fictional and someone decided to make real. The game was mentioned in Patrick Rothfuss...

If there is a game that truly embraces the unique nature of the Looney Pyramids, it is Volcano. There are a lot of abstract strategy gam...