20th Annual Golden Geek Awards - Nominations Open! | BGG I am excited to announce the 20th annual Golden Geek nominations for the Best Games of 2025 are now open! The [geekurl=/award/8314/golden-geek-awards]Golden Geek Award[/geekurl] is given annually to ...

Nominations for BGGs Golden Geek Awards end tomorrow! If you're a user over there, we'd sure appreciate any love for Molly House💃 boardgamegeek.com/thread/36898...

I don’t think I’ve thought about a game as much or often since my first play as Molly House. A sensational experience that communicated its themes (in the literary sense) with a deft hand. Also, one of the few games to deal with sex and desire in a way that is mature and isn’t leering or boorish.

Magical Athlete is an all-timer, especially if you have kids. Every kid I've shown it to, it captures their imagination almost instantly and they get obsessed. I'm also excited to play Molly House, I backed the recent reprint ^_^

As always, play great games! We'll see you around the table and we'll be back with more in 2027.

A picture of the box for Molly House with the American Tabletop Awards logo for Complex Games in front of it, on the bottom-right edge.

Last and certainly not least is our 2026 American Tabletop Award for Complex Games! This year's winner is Molly House, from @wehrlegig.games!

For more information, see americantabletopawards.com/molly-house

A hand reaches down to move one of four plahing pieces on a green board shaped like a running track. The four pieces represent people in mascot suits - a hot dog, a queen, a bear and a fish. Jon Perry's board game design Hot Streak from CMYK Games.

Six wooden playing pieces with images of various characters on, including a banana wearing a hat and an aardvark on a unicycle. They are on a track-style board composed of different coloured squares, some with numbers on. Takashi Ishida and Richard Garfield's board game design Magical Athlete from CMYK Games.

Characters from the Lord of the Rings novel on the front of a board game box, with a surprised-looking Frodo at the centre looking into a bowl supported by a white tree. Box cover for Matt Leacock's board game design Lord of the Rings Fate of the Fellowshop, from Z-Man Games / Asmodee.

A pink board game box with black line drawings of dozens of people in 18th century high society dress, with the words Molly House in the centre in a lighter pink. Board game box cover for Jo Kelly and Cole Wehrle's design Molly House

CMYK's Hot Streak and Magical Athlete race to wins in this year’s American Tabletop Awards, Fate of the Fellowship and Molly House also triumph:

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Huge congrats to @cmyk.games @perryjon.bsky.social @mattleacock.bsky.social @miasmacorp.bsky.social @alex.cmyk.games!

Thanks for playing! Always love seeing the stock broker card out and a massive court of directors pile

Friday night, John Company by @wehrlegig.games with the board game crew. This is my favorite game of all time. The design is pretty close to flawless, and it's a game that I love playing even if I'm getting crushed.

It was nice to get back to work properly on An Infamous Traffic at #CircleDC I had missed working on economic games!

BTW if *you* are a game designer or related nerd and would like to hang — or would like to have your 18th century inspired game playtested by some great subject matter experts — please let me know.

@asecsoffice.bsky.social heads next to:
- Portland, OR April 2026
- Richmond, VA in 2027

The first of many! Thanks for having us and what a joy to get a chance to bring our games here. LOTS OF IDEAS ABOUT NEXT TIME

Very tired Cole & Drew & Em

Games of Molly House and John Company with 18th century nerds

Molly House in play

In an alternate universe where I went to UT @colewehrle.bsky.social & I would have been PhD classmates.

But I’m so glad to know him & Drew as we are now, & to welcome them & @wehrlegig.games & @jdragsky.bsky.social to @asecsoffice.bsky.social — the first of many schemes to come, I hope. #asecs26

you are never writing a new thing on a blank sheet, you are always simply hammering a next tie in the labyrinthine rail system of culture

Small scene of kids playing a piggyback tug-o-war from the painting of Children's Game by Brugel (1560).

Cole's latest essay On Expansions is less about Arcs and more about the history of games, modern tabletop designers, Marxist theory, and the nature of collaboration. Read here: buriedgiant.com/blog/Arcs-be...

Really looking forward to coming out this year!

JUST LAUNCHED on Kickstarter! Arcs is back and weirder than ever! Featuring a suite of strange new expansions, screen printed pieces, and beautiful deluxe add-ons. Go Beyond the Reach!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

What will you do??? Betray!

A scene of destruction as a large rectangular space ship emerges from a rip in space. Smaller fighter ships are damaged in the top right and in the bottom right 2 muscular aliens prepare for war

Just a few days awaaaaaay

#arcsboardgame #boardgames #illustration
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Going Beyond the Reach - Arcs Beyond the Reach Diary #3 YouTube video by Buried Giant Studios

We're one week from launch! Here, in our last pre-Kickstarter video diary, you can find out about what's going to be in all three of the new Arcs expansions and hear a little about the early design process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HidN...

Coming soon: WENDYBUXXX A straight-to-VHS game of lifestyle influencers forced to shill a necrocurrency for followers, complete with a full album soundtrack!

My next game, WENDYBUXXX, is coming to Kickstarter on 28 April! Follow the link for the pre-launch page to sign up to be notified when it goes live.

WENDYBUXXX is:
- a necrocurrency
- a tie-in reality TV show
- a straight-to-VHS card game for 3 to 5 players
- an album soundtrack

More info soon!

Reading the rules for Molly House now and I want to plaaaaayyy it

Modern board game maestro Cole Wehrle on getting mad, metaphor in game design, and future projects that are "Big with a capital B" For Cole Wehrle, the designer behind Arcs, Root, and John Company, "games are not just their pieces" - they are an ongoing conversation.

"For a game to occur at all, players must agree to its social contract and see it through to the end. That also puts them in collaboration with the designer, who can impose limitations to create systems and ideas, but can't completely control their interpretation."

Those Final, Hectic Days - Arcs Beyond the Reach Diary #2 YouTube video by Buried Giant Studios

This week, I get into the weeds on the final stages of Arcs's development, crunch culture, and how our work on Arcs shaped the projects that followed. You can find the video version here: youtu.be/15LSvDt_DD8

I'm sure you'll see a lot of experimentation on our end over the next few months as we think about new ways of sharing how we approach projects like this. For my part, I'm just excited that we are finally ready to start talking about the next projects.

The Business of Buried Giant Arcs Beyond the Reach Diary #1 YouTube video by Buried Giant Studios

In a few weeks, we're going to be launching the next Arcs campaign. As usual, we'll be doing a series of design and development diaries as we get the campaign ready. However, this time we wanted to do something a little different. youtu.be/DU3kU7rQnNg

The Business of Buried Giant Arcs Beyond the Reach Diary #1 YouTube video by Buried Giant Studios

We're getting ready to launch the Arcs: Beyond the Reach crowdfunding campaign, which means it's time to start releasing Design Diaries! This first one sets the stage for some core principles at Buried Giant.
Watch here: youtu.be/DU3kU7rQnNg
Or Read here: buriedgiantstudios.com/blog/Arcs-be...

Molly House's Jo Kelly • Off Shelf We talked to Jo Kelly about Molly House - out now on Wehrlegig.

This interview was a real pleasure, especially as it gave me an avenue to talk about music as well as games.

offshelf.net/2026/03/10/m...

If you're heading to Gama next week, stop by the Buried Giant booth (#1049). And, if you're there early, you can come find me at a few events I'll be helping with during the education summit (little schedule 🧵) @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social

Historical Games and Pax Renaissance with Andy Nealen Podcast Episode · Decision Space · 02/18/2026 · 1h 58m

Big @decisionspace.bsky.social w/ @nealen.bsky.social from @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social in which we discuss what makes history games different from the rest of the hobby and go deep on Pax Ren, a favorite of both of us. We also talk a lot about @wehrlegig.games!
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An adorable valentine with a photo of Liz Davidson. Text reads: Would you be our creative director? To Liz, from Leder Games.

Y'all, SHE SAID YES!

Happy-almost-Valentine's-Day to our new Creative Director: Liz Davidson!