Clean your shit up—literally—in the board game Skara Brae Skara Brae is a pretty standard village-building, worker-placement board game, until you get to the part about cleaning up your shit.

Great review at The A.V. Club for boardgame Skara Brae, by Kāpiti coast meeple maestro Shem Phillips. Lots of Whitcoulls stores carry this one! @garphillgames.bsky.social

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We've just dropped the latest episode of The Lens and Veil podcast discussing the design challenges when making The Great Sea!

🎧 Listen now on your favourite platform!

Getting very close to our next Kickstarter launching on Tuesday 31 March! We thought we'd drop a 3-person playthrough of Towers of Sifnos, featuring Shem, Sam and Zach!

You can watch it now on our YouTube channel!

#garphillgames #garphill #boardgames #kickstarter #playthrough #ancientanthology

Second game is a bit heavier. Shipwrights of the North Sea Redux by @garphillgames.bsky.social one of my favorite publishers.
#boardgames

Back by popular demand! 🔥

We've received a lot of emails and messages from people disappointed that they missed out on the February Flash Sale... so we decided to bring it back for just one more bonus week!

Hi Scott,

I don't think there are currently any plans for a reprint by Renegade Game Studios, but you would need to ask them.

We still have copies available from our webstore and they ship from within the US.

The date is set! Join us on the 31st of March to bring these two new Ancient Anthology titles to your table! 🔥

Don't miss it! Click the "Notify me on launch" button at garphill.com/ancient

Yes!

DutchYoda's Twitch Stream Schedule Coffee & Crowdfunding Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026 10pm CET / 4pm EST / 1pm PST twitch.tv/DutchYoda youtube.com/@DutchYodaPlays Let's Play On Thursday : Assyria: 2nd edition solo Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026 10pm CET / 4pm EST / 1pm PST twitch.tv/DutchYoda youtube.com/@DutchYodaPlays Bordspel Uurtje Zondag, 1 mrt., 2026 9am CET / 3am EST / 12am PST twitch.tv/DutchYoda youtube.com/@DutchYodaPlays

My schedule for this week.
Tonight: Coffee & Crowdfunding as usual.
On Thursday: the technical issues are fixed, let's play Assyria 2nd edition, by @garphillgames.bsky.social , solo.
And this Sunday I will be back with the latest board game news for my Dutch followers.

BGG Top Games – 2001 Through 2100 We're into a new millennium! Not year-wise, of course. We are sadly still in 2026. But in looking at the Boardgame Geek game rankings, we are now over 2000. Some might say we're getting into the dregs, where I haven't played, or even thought about, most of the games. Surprisingly enough, there are still some decent options here! That's the thing about the BGG rankings.

BGG Top Games - 2001 Through 2100 @jessedperez.bsky.social @druidcitygames.bsky.social @garphillgames.bsky.social @beziergames.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social @luckduckgames.bsky.social

Shipwrights of the North Sea: Redux #boardgame designed by Shem Phillips, published by @garphillgames.bsky.social

More games and session reports here:
homeofmark.com/more-tableto...

More pictures of this session here:
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Skute by @garphillgames.bsky.social

📐: S J Macdonald, Shem Phillips, Zach Smith
🎨: Sam Phillips, Iva Trstenjak
🧍: 2-6 players
⏱️: 30-40 min

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#boardgames #geek #meeple #brettspiele #game #graplanszowa #jeuxdesociete #ボードゲーム #보드게임 #juegodemesa

Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#10-1) Now we've gone and done it. We've now reached the Top 10 games of all time, played by me at least. It's been an incredible 5 weeks (ok, 6, but last week's Friday post was important) of new games, oldies dropping in the rankings, a few bumping up as well. I've really enjoyed doing this, mainly because I love sharing a love of boardgames with all of my readers.

Top 50 #boardgames Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#10-1) @garphillgames.bsky.social @eaglegryphon.bsky.social @lookoutgames.bsky.social @czechgames.com @gmtgames.bsky.social @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social @vitallacerda.bsky.social @pegasusspiele.bsky.social @capstone-games.com

Here in New Zealand we are hitting the hot end of Summer! So to add to the heat we thought we’d have a flash sale on all West Kingdom products. Get in before February ends (NZT)!

🌎Worldwide shipping 🚚 Free shipping when you spend US$125+

Spirited is LIVE! 🔥⭐⚡

Come join us on this new adventure 👉🏽 garphill.com/spirited

Unfortunately Assyria Second Edition is only available directly from us at Garphill.com and we've only got 500 copies left.

Never ordered from us before?

✅ We have tax friendly shipping for USA, Europe, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and some products for Canada (reach out if unsure).

Our holiday sale will be closing in 36 hours!

Don't miss out!

Best Week 2025! Picture Perfect! What a year. Best of times, worst of times, that’s what we’re supposed to say. For board games, though, 2025 was a banner year, full of tremendous titles both big and small. As ever, Be…

It has begun. Best Week. The only year-end list that matters. And for the first day of Best Week 2025, we're celebrating the board games that transported us to new places, showed us wondrous sights, or used their visuals to illuminate a topic. Read here: spacebiff.com/2025/12/26/b...

Not long left on our unprecedented holiday sale! It'll be running until midnight on 31 December New Zealand Time. Don't miss out!

Shop now 👉🏽 garphill.com

Not long left on our unprecedented holiday sale! It'll be running until midnight on 31 December New Zealand Time. Don't miss out!

Shop now 👉🏽 garphill.com

The date is set! Join us on Jan 13th for the launch of Spirited on Kickstarter. Let's see how many free expansions we can unlock!

👉🏽 garphill.com/spirited

Time to start getting hyped for Spirited! 🔥🕺🏽

We absolutely love the character art by Patri Balanovsky! And there are a LOT more characters to unlock during the Kickstarter. Every 1000 backers will unlock a new 4 clan expansion that will be added FOR FREE to each pledge.

👉🏽 garphill.com/spirited 👈🏽

Looking forward to the Spirited Kickstarter campaign?! 🔥

We often provide metal coins as a deluxe add-on for our games, but this time you'll have the possibility to get deluxe Spirit and Medals, upgrading from cardboard to chunky plastic tokens.
👉 garphill.com/spirited

#boardgames #comingsoon

Want to know Shem, Sam and Zach’s top ten games? 😮

We have just released the first episode in a two part series counting down their favourites.

🎧 Listen now by searching for Lens and Veil on your preferred podcast platform.

Nice! Such a good time!

Can you believe we are already hitting 9 Ancient Anthology games?!

Which has been your favourite to delve into so far?

Towers of Sifnos by @garphillgames.bsky.social

📐: S J Macdonald, Shem Phillips
🎨: Sam Phillips
🧍: 1-4 players
⏱️: 60-90 min

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...

#boardgames #geek #meeple #brettspiele #game #graplanszowa #jeuxdesociete #ボードゲーム #보드게임 #juegodemesa

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📢 Big news landing tomorrow. Join us on YouTube as Shem announces what’s coming in the first half of 2026, including two exciting new game announcements.

Find our channel: youtube.com/@garphillgames

Shipwrights of the North Sea: Redux #boardgame designed by Shem Phillips, published by @garphillgames.bsky.social

More games and session reports here:
homeofmark.com/more-tableto...

More pictures of this session here:
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfcSTH3d/