Sunday, May 29, 2022

30 for 30 board games

I get the board game geek weekly emails, and I saw a post about 30 games for 30 years. I loved the idea (even though I had never played most of the games on his list), so I decided to make my own. These are in no particular order, just as I thought of them, or of the memories associated with them. Growing up, my dad and his good friend Paul loved playing games, and some of these are games I remember from playing as a child with them, or with my cousins. The first game (Biergarten) I’ve only played once, but it is high in my memory banks because I won it, playing against Dad, Paul and my sister Abigail. I rarely won, so this was extremely momentous - I even wrote a college essay about that particular game because of it. Other games on here are from playing with my good friends Andrew & Bethanie from college. Some are games I discovered at board game cafes (These include The Board and Brew and The Board Room in the MD/VA area, or Thirsty Dice and Queen & Rook in Philadelphia, where A&B live). Others are games I discovered due to Tabletop, Wil Wheaton’s amazing YouTube series. At least one is a game that my brother-in-law taught me to play (he’s also a big board gamer), and another is from my husband’s friend Matt. Some are from the board game club at work - we meet for quick games at lunch time (or we used to, before the pandemic). And the very last one (Murder of Crows) is a game that Ryan and I purchased at PAX Unplugged in 2019 which we went to at the recommendation of our next door neighbors, who also love board games. (photo below shows one of many Game of Thrones skins applied to games that year at PAX - we bought "Gloom of Thrones" which is an especially fun take on number 26 in my list below).



It would take a long time to put each memory that I associate with each game, so I have not done that in the list below - but I hope you get the sense that board games has been one of the fun constants in my 30 years of life, and are something I look forward to continuing to collect and play in the upcoming decades. And with that, here is my “30 for 30” games list:

  1. Biergarten https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/178335/biergarten

  2. Love Letter https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/129622/love-letter 

  3. Kingdomino https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/204583/kingdomino 

  4. Go Nuts for Donuts https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/184346/go-nuts-donuts 

  5. Sushi Go https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/133473/sushi-go 

  6. Mysterium https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/181304/mysterium 

  7. Kill Dr. Lucky https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257/kill-doctor-lucky 

  8. Dominion https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion 

  9. 7 Wonders https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68448/7-wonders 

  10. Citadels https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/478/citadels 

  11. Agricola https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31260/agricola 

  12. Forbidden Island https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65244/forbidden-island 

  13. Zombicide https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/113924/zombicide 

  14. Tsuro https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16992/tsuro 

  15. Ticket to Ride https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9209/ticket-ride 

  16. Pandemic https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic 

  17. Century Spice Road https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/209685/century-spice-road 

  18. Hanabi https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/98778/hanabi 

  19. Through the Desert https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/503/through-desert 

  20. Organ Attack https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/201406/organattack 

  21. Pack & Stack https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37120/pack-stack 

  22. Captain Sonar https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/171131/captain-sonar 

  23. Lovelace & Babbage https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257056/lovelace-babbage 

  24. Carcassone https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/822/carcassonne 

  25. Takenoko https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/70919/takenoko 

  26. Gloom https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12692/gloom 

  27. Elfenland https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10/elfenland 

  28. Chrononauts https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/815/chrononauts 

  29. Loonacy https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/154892/loonacy

  30. Murder Of Crows https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/128475/murder-crows   

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