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Pile of gold and silver colored coins with two different images of Queen Victoria on the front side. Backside had various symbols from the game and coin values (though it seems fairly obvious that larger golden coins would be a higher value than smaller silver colored ones). There's only 2 coin values in the game: 100 & 500. The coins are thick and hefty.

Final layout for me. I went nuts with blue service tiles (2 of the courtship phases scored blue), and I bought and used/flipped 2 purple tiles to the monument side (Hermitage & Lionheart Suite). At the very bottom there's a glimpse of my objective and VP cards. Did pretty well on them too!

Got the metal coin upgrade for Obsession, because I love metal coins in games...& I've got everything else🤣 Had a pretty good game today! #boardgames

Woah, they look amazing! Metal coins are so satisfying aren't they? It's one thing we're planning to upgrade when we're able to - METAL COIN ALL THE THINGS 🤣

AEG would not exist without the creativity and hard work of designers.

Forbidden Legacy to Debut at Gen Con 2026 Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau join forces once again

Grab your jetpack, Forbidden Legacy will premiere at Gen Con this year!

Designed with Rob Daviau. This one unfolds over seven chapters.

www.wericmartin.com/forbidden-le...

Nice - yeah it's proper good :) Need to get that back to the table soon, and hopefully we'll get the expansion one day too.

🚨 New Video!

For those who are interested to see how we organise our collection 😊

youtu.be/UJsKq3y0Bsg

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Whoops 😬 saw this yesterday in the “For You” feed and assumed it was recent or same day.

Didn’t expect to be served something from 3 months ago.

Sorry! hope you enjoyed the games though 😅

Nice! please update us how you feel about Compile, especially in relation to Air, Land, & Sea.

We only have the latter but have often seen them compared? It's been on our wishlist, though maybe we should spend more time with what we've got first 😅

This is too accurate 😅

Ohhh! Super cool, I've not delved too much into the app beyond just logging our game scores :) thanks for the info!

Still need to get around to this game, I played the alpha back from 2013, and while I don't remember specifics, it was for sure a positive experience.

Oh nice, maybe I've been using the location entry wrong? We use that to mark where we physically played a game 😅(Home, BGA, friends house, etc)

Nice that you can use the app for it. We do love BGStats 💜

Screenshot from Obsidian on maxOS, showing part of our board game collection for Location B (which is a box in our kallax), with an assortment of games within.

I'm not sure I understand the question, sorry.

We have 12 boxes for the kallax units (A to L), and each box has a different number of games (boxes) inside.

We can get quite a lot of games into one box if they're on the smaller side, 25 in box B for example 😊

Our system for storing board games is to chuck them (gently) into a box, which then goes into a Kallax. Paired with a "database" to help us find anything we need.

We'll be explaining it all a bit more in an upcoming video 😊

How do you like to organise/manage your collection?

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I want to thank people who took the time to read the document and watch the video I shared. It is also important to me that it is understood: I do not believe Matthew, Paula, Monique or Naveen (or anyone else) had involvement (or awareness) of the actions the owner of Game Night Picks took. 1/4

Upper body image of a bald man with a long grey beard sitting at a desk, wearing a green-grey t-shirt and counting off his fingers. He wears black-rimmed spectacles and has a black microphone attached to his front. Shelves full of board games are visible behind him, and a silver laptop with a Texas flag sticker is visible on the desk. Sam Healey from The Dice Tower, on his podcast Flipside Of Board Games.

Header image from the Dice Tower Gamefound Pledge Drive 2026. An illustration of many Dice Tower characters are visible in an undersea scene on the left of the screen, while the right shows how much the campaign has raised - $281,678, with 12 hours to go.

Veteran Dice Tower reviewer Sam Healey resigns in wake of saying Alex Pretti, Renee Good were to blame for ICE killing them, after comments began impacting review giant’s annual pledge drive:

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PNP Arcade is now closed.

I'll be posting all of my PNP games to itch for the time being. Today I've added Crownfell, Crownfell: Last Stand, and ExoShip there; I think those were the only ones missing:
weheartgames.itch.io

We've decided to move on from TikTok, and in 5 days we will delete our account from the platform.

If you've watched, interacted with, or shared our content from there, thank you 💜

We'll still be posting short form videos on YouTube, and hopefully @skylight.social once that is available in the EU.

Just a heads-up (because I saw this while looking for our own account), handles might not be parked forever.

"If an account remains inactive for 180 days or more, the username may be reset to a randomized numeric username."

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The BoardGameGeek Hall of Fame 2026 - Day 5 Inductee | BoardGameGeek News

@boardgamegeek.com For an award you say acknowledges artistry, why are you choosing to highlight a game:

- That uses AI art (which surely is anti-artistry if anything)
- Designed by a person whose transphobic views have no place in our industry (artist = artistry)

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Turns out PNPArcade is closing down, more information about that can be found on their homepage:

www.pnparcade.com

If you've purchased from them before, please make sure you've downloaded your games! as the last day to do so will be 29th January (5 days from writing this)

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#BoardGames #PnP

Thanks for sharing this. We'd had a whole bunch of his games in our basket for a while now. Going to go right ahead and delete that...

A green 3D printed box with contour details and the words ‘Waypoints’ ‘Matthew Dunstan’ ‘Rory Muldoon’ in White.

The inside of a 3D printed box with inserts for folded maps, pens and a dice.

A photograph of a game sheet showing a map with contours and gridlines.

We love this custom 3D printed Waypoints box by BGG user jschott!

#indiegame #printfun #printathome

We played 30+ different board games in the lead-up to Christmas, here's what we thought about them YouTube video by Board Game Beans

🚨 New Video

A wrap up video for our board game advent calendar, where we played 30+ different games through December. 🎲🗓️🎄

youtu.be/G2Sn8RD72ek

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We just played through the trial on PS5 - such a great experience! Well crafted game too, even the super small details like our characters in the loading screen animation 😅

Thanks again for the rec! We're going to get it 😊

All the slicing for our upcoming Advent Calendar wrap-up video!

It was meant to be shorter, but it ended up taking a while to talk about 24 days worth of board games 😅

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Cascadia: Rolling Rivers Flip-and-roll-and-write to create the riverine landscapes of Cascadia!

🎲: Cascadia: Rolling Rivers
📐: Randy Flynn
🎨: Beth Sobel
🏭: Flatout Games
👥: 1 - 4
🗓️: 2024

🔗: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40...

The board game Cascadia: Rolling Rivers, with the box standing on a grey table cloth, with the cards, dice, and player sheets on display. Beyond the table is a fireplace burning.

Tonight we sat by the fireplace and enjoyed Cascadia: Rolling Rivers for the first time!

We love flip and writes,
We love dice rolling

This was a winning combo, and made for a very pleasant game 😊

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So... I only saw half the image before and then went off to check the game pages. Only now did I see the text! That's hilarious 🤣

Terra Nil has been a breath of fresh air - highly recommend it :)