Pick Up and Deliver

Brendan talks about what games Cancer gamers might like or be good at. Join us, won’t you?

• Sea and Shore
  • Le Havre (2008)
    A Feast for Odin (2016)
  • Nusfjord (2017)
  • Fleet: The Dice Game (Second Edition) (2020)
• Emotional and Material Realms
  • Unconscious Mind (2024)
  • Comanauts (2019)
  • Cerebria: The Inside World (2018)
• Psychic Abilities
  • Arkham Horror: The Card Game (2016)
  • Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.” (2021)
  • Mysterium (2015)
• Establish Trust
  • The Resistance (2009)
  • A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) (2011)
  • Diplomacy (1959)
  • Molly House (2025)
  • Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game (2014)
• Crabs
  • Crabs Adjust Humidity (2013)
  • Crabs in a Bucket (2023)
  • Oh Crab! (2025)

What games from each category did I miss? What other aspects of the Cancer sign should we take into account? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan shares his first impressions of three games he tried recently. Join us, won’t you?

• Project: ELITE (2020)
  • Escape: The Curse of the Temple (2012)
• Molly House (2025)
  • Pax Pamir: Second Edition (2019)
  • Root (2018)
• Hollywood 1947 (2023)
• Above and Below (2015) revisited

What games have you tried lately? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in our guild, #3269.

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Brendan looks back at the games that came out in 2007 and 2008 to see which games are the best games. Join us, won’t you?Top 5 from 2007-2008

1. A Touch of Evil: The Supernatural Game (2008)
2. Le Havre (2008)
3. Galaxy Trucker (2007)
4. Race for the Galaxy (2007)
5. Lost Cities: The Board Game (2008)

Honorable Mentions

• 1960: The Making of the President (2007)
• Dominion (2008)
• Pandemic (2008)
• Parade (2007)
• Biblios (2007)

Superlatives

• Best Memories: Whoowasit? (2007)
• Things to Come: League of Six (2007)
• Weirdest Game: Space Alert (2008)
• Game I Should Like But Don’t: Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game (2008)
• Game I Should Like But Don’t: Cosmic Encounter (2008)
  • Episode 670: Nah, I’m Good
• Surprise: Patrician (2007)

Excluded because of my Top 50

• Brass: Lancashire (2007)
• Agricola (2007)
• Ghost Stories (2008)
• Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game (2007)

What games do you like best from 2007 and 2008? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan talks about several underused mechanisms he loves. Join us, won’t you?

• Evenfall (2023)
• Upper Row / Bottom Row
  • Elysium (2015)
  • Valley of the Kings (2014)
• Action Towers
  • Elysium (2015)
• One player has all the points
  • Android: Netrunner (2012)
• Follow and copy
  • Glory to Rome (2005)
  • Puerto Rico (2002)
  • Broom Service (2015)
  • Arcs (2024)
• Auctions You Don’t Mind Losing
  • Furnace (2020)
  • Brian Boru: High King of Ireland (2021)
• Action Cards that also Score
  • Concordia Venus (2018)

What mechanisms would you like to see in more games? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in Guild #3269.

Brendan shares his first impressions of three games he tried recently. Join us, won’t you?

• One Night Ultimate Alien (2017)
  Nefarious (2011)
  Trickdraw (2022)
  • Drones vs Seagulls⁠ (2022)
  • Flipology (2019)
• Crossfire (2017)
• Savernake Forest (2023)
  • Nimalia (2023)

What games have you tried lately? Share your plays over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan shares his thoughts about the films he watched in March and April of 2025. Join us, won’t you?

• The Devil Wears Prada
  • Prêt-à-Porter (2010)
    Fit to Print (2023)
• Doom
  • DOOM: The Board Game (2016)
• Philomena
  • Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases (1981)
• The Post
  • Fit to Print (2023)
  • Watergate (2019)
• Thelma
  • Holding On: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr (2018)
• Apollo 13
  • High Frontier (2010)
  • Apollo: A Game Inspired by NASA Moon Missions (2020)
  • Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon (2024)
• Trumbo
  • Hollywood 1947 (2023)
• The Man from Earth
• Cosmos
  • SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2024)
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• Heart Eyes

What films did you watch in March and April of 2025? Share your viewing over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan shares his first impressions of three games he tried out recently. Join us, won’t you?

• Whitehall Mystery (2017)
  • Scotland Yard (1983)
• Time Bomb Evolution (2016)
• Madame Medora’s House of Curiosities (2024)
• Cockroach Poker (2004) (revisited)

Have you played any of these games? If so, what do you think of them? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan shares his thoughts about games with scripted openings and their effect on gameplay. Join us, won’t you?

• Concordia (2013)
• Which games have the most heavily-scripted openings?
• Chess (1475)
• Puerto Rico 1897 (2022)
• Barrage (2019)
• Food Chain Magnate (2015)
• Brass: Birmingham (2018)
• 7 Wonders (2010)

What experience have you had with scripted openings? Share your thoughts over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan talks about the books he read in Jan, Feb, and March of 2025. Join us, won’t you?

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
• The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
• The Labyrinth Index
• Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
• Prisoner’s Base
• Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
• The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
• King of the Vagabonds
• Horror Movie
• Song of Susannah
• The Searcher
• Twelve Owls
• The Hunter
• Youth Group
• Tourist Season
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
• The Eyes Are the Best Part

What did you read in the first part of this year? Share your reads over on boardgamegeek in guild #3269.

Brendan shares his gameplay stats from May. Join us, won’t you?

• May 2025 Top of the Stack
  • NEW GAME – Sorcerer City X
  • SHELF CLEARER – Badass Zombie Killers X
  • NEW GAME 2 – Fallen Angel X
  • Top 50 Choice – Pulsar 2849 ✓
• Shelf of Opportunity
• My Top 50
• Expand yourShelf
• June 2025 Top of the Stack
  • NEW GAME – Aeroplanes
  • SHELF CLEARER – In The Year of the Dragon
  • NEW GAME 2 – Xenoshyft: Dreadmire
  • Top 50 Choice – Ghost Stories

What did you play in May? Share your plays over on boardgamegeek in Guild #3269.