A Gnome's Ponderings

  My son and I recently sat down and tried out Blokus Junior. His real love is video games but we do get in the odd board game now and then....

Some board games make good art activities for younger kids. And, at least for me, abstracts are the games that seem to do the best job at it...

Some board games make good art activities for younger kids. And, at least for me, abstracts are the games that seem to do the best job at it...

Okay. Since I am in an abstract set of mind, on to the next topic I’m musing. What actually is an abstract? When I first started being i...

I have been spending perhaps an unhealthy amount of time dwelling on abstracts and abstracts I that folks who get hives from abstracts will ...

I wanted to write about abstracts that I like since being an adult doesn’t give me the time to pursue Go. (To be fair, having hobbies other ...

Go was a huge milestone for me. Not only is it one of the most genuinely brilliant games ever created and incredible training for your brain...

My, what a difference seven years makes. Seven years ago, I first discovered and wrote about Mapple. And, at the time, I was fairly disp...

I hadn’t thought about Atlanteon for years until I was looking through my abstracts. And now I want to play it some more :D In Atlanteon...

I was actually introduced to Abalone  by a  D&D buddy before I got into designer board games. (He was the same guy who would later intro...

I was included in a request to suggest games for a smart teenager who likes chess and strategy games. While other folks handled the strateg...

Since I've already written about Martian Chess, I feel like I should also talk about Pikemen, the Looney Pyramid game that most closely ...

I really like Branches and Twigs and Thorns more than I should. It's one of the slightly obscure Looney Pyramid games. By slightly obs...

Martian Chess was the first game that really got me into the Looney Pyramid system. At the time, a lot of my experience with Looney Labs...

While I am sure that I am going to go back and take a look at all of these games more carefully, I did want to comment on the games that I...