A Gnome's Ponderings

For the first couple years that I was really playing board games, I didn’t bother logging any of my place. After that, I started logging eve...

Despite being exactly what I thought it would be, The Architect managed to surprise me. The Architect is a free PnP game consisting of e...

Cheeky Monkey is not one of Reiner Knizia’s games. In fact, it wouldn’t make my top fifty Knizia games and might very well not make my top o...

While our son has been interested in board games for a long time (not surprising since he has grown up kind of surrounded by them) but watch...

I only heard the term Murder Hobo for the first time in the last year. However, when I looked it up, it looks like it has become ubiquitous,...

Our friend Nate was in town for a bit and he came over for board games a few times while he was here. This is really more of a journal entry...

I’m not a big fan of house rules. Monopoly gets some blame for that but you always have to question the game balance of house rules. And, if...