A Gnome's Ponderings

I hadn’t planned on writing about Light Speed but it came up when I was talking about Cheapass Games. And I realized that I’ve been occasion...

As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been purging my game as part of a big move. This is far from the first time I’ve had big purges but this will end up...

I’ve been looking back at my past blogs about Cheap Ass games. And I am fascinated by how much my opinion of the work of James Ernst has shi...

Looking at James Ernst’s Spree (a game I have owned forever but never played), I found myself asking where Cheapass Games fall in the world ...

I finally read Cheapass Games in Black and White by James Ernest. It’s a retrospective on the history of Cheapass Games by the founder and g...

I have already written about a few games that, particularly if you are new to Print and Play, are worth making of you are under lockdown and...

September was a busy, busy month. If I hadn’t worked ahead early in the year, printing and cutting, I wouldn’t have gotten in Print and Play...

As comes as no surprise since I am interested in Print and Play and a fan of Cheapass Games, I’ve acquired a lot of files from them over the...

It will come as no surprise to anyone evenly vaguely aware of my strange and possibly unhealthy obsession with Cheapass Games that I’ve been...

Back when I was first starting my tottering steps into board gaming, Cheapass’s Hip Pocket line served as a starting point for me. Cheap and...

I’m sorely tempted to back the latest Kickstarter from Cheapass Games: Cheapass Games In Black and White. It’s a retrospective by James Erne...

While it’s been years since I’ve gotten it out, The Very Clever Pipe Game was a very big deal for me when I first started down my road to be...

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...

When I spend time ruminating on the start of me becoming a dedicated board gamer, two companies tend to feature heavily in my memories: Loon...

Bitin’ Off Hedz is definitely in the running  for the worst Cheapass Game I’ve experienced.  It came out in 1996 and I think that James ...

I probably still have two or three copies of Change, since it was so cheap and it is so small. One copy lived in my bag for a while, in larg...

It's fun reminiscing about older Cheapass Games. While a lot of them weren't particularly good, they were always interesting. Combin...

I had been planning on making this just a response to someone asking me about ranking the individual games in Cheapass's Hip Pocket Game...

Wandering down memory lane has brought me to the Hip Pocket line of games, a line of games that Cheapass produced that were smaller than the...

Since I subscribe to the Cheapass Games newsletter, I have been aware of Pairs pretty much since it was ever mentioned. However, it didn...