A Splendor game box with a SpielMas display sitting on top with six meeples.

Day 6 of #spielmas found us hosting a New Year’s Eve party, but we managed to play a couple of games of Splendor before things got super busy. Thanks to @haoleboygames.com for hosting another great year of @spielmas.com and thanks to everyone who participated and shared your fun photos!
#boardgames

Game boxes for Calico and Planet sit on a table next to a SpielMas display with 5 meeples.

I was surprised for day 5 of #spielmas when my daughter, unprompted, grabbed Planet and Calico from my shelf and asked to play them. Planet has been sitting unplayed for a while, and I’d been wanting to teach my girls to play Calico, so we dove right in.
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A Final Girl series 1 box, a Flip 7 box, and a SpielMas display with 4 meeples.

Day 4 of #spielmas found me home alone for most of the day but I didn’t let that stop me from celebrating. I played an epic game of Final Girl that came down to the final health tokens. After dinner, everybody was pretty tired but we managed to play a quick game of Flip 7.
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A copy of the Carcassonne Big Box with a SpielMas display holding 3 meeples.

We broke out a classic for #spielmas day 3. I haven’t played Carcassonne in 5 years so I sat down with my wife and kids and played a couple games. My youngest daughter won the first game and my eldest daughter won the second.
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The Gallerist game box with a SpielMas display with two meeples.

Day 2 of #spielmas was celebrated with family over a game of The Gallerist. Quite a bit heavier than the games we played yesterday, but I’ve been wanting to get this to the table again for some time.
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Cascadia and MLEM Space Agency boxes sitting on a table with a SpielMas display with one meeple.

Kicking off #spielmas 2025 with a couple of my favorites. We had some close friends over for MLEM and Cascadia and had a great time. #boardgames @spielmas.com

When you absolutely, positively, have to get your holiday party guests the HELL out of your house

Any info on the PSVR2 release date?

Reddit post: “Does the community have a term for when you have a game night and no one except the host is focused on the game?”

We do! The term is "game night."

netflix should go back to having three shows that everyone watches instead of a million shows that nobody watches

Mothra, the moth Kaiju

Happy Mothra's Day!

This Jon Adams cartoon speaks volumes.

say what you will about a society in decline, but things are better than they will be next year!!!

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a big difference between saturday night when you're young and saturday night when you're no longer young is the meaning of ten o'clock. young ten o'clock means the night is really getting started. not young ten o'clock means sad because want to drink tea but can't do tea after 9 o'clock

Why is it called the Internet Archive and not A Link To The Past

fuck yes

A SpielMas display with 6 meeples sitting in front of Apropos of Movies, Cacao, and True Colors

As we close out 2024, we also close out the fifth annual @spielmas.bsky.social festival. Tonight we celebrated with some friends and played a few games, ate some delicious food, and indulged in a few cocktails.

Thanks to @haoleboygames.bsky.social for the festival!

Happy New Year!

#boardgames

A SpielMas display with 5 meeples sitting in front of three games: Apropos of Movies, Go Nuts for Donuts, and Monkey Palace

We had another great @spielmas.bsky.social night at home with Apropos of Movies, Go Nuts for Donuts, and another game of Monkey Palace, this time with all 4 of us. Only one more night of #spielmas remains, and with some friends coming over for New Year’s Eve festivities, it should be a good time.

A SpielMas display with 4 meeples sitting in front of the Monkey Palace game box

Day 4 of @spielmas.bsky.social is upon us and I had a chance to sit down and learn Monkey Palace, a game that utilizes Lego for components. The rulebook was a little difficult for us to parse, but the @watchitplayed.tv video on YouTube is excellent and answered all our questions.

A SpielMas display with 3 meeples sitting in front of the That’s Not a Hat game box

Day 3 of @spielmas.bsky.social was a busy day for us, but I found time to sit down with my daughters after dinner for a light game of That’s Not a Hat, a game I received in this year’s @boardgamegeek.com Secret Santa exchange. We played a total of 4 rounds and loved it! #spielmas #boardgames

A SpielMas display with meeples on 26 and 27. Nova Luna and Nusfjord boxes are in the background.

Day 2 of @spielmas.bsky.social was celebrated with Nusfjord and Nova Luna, two of my favorite Uwe Rosenberg games. I first learned about SpielMas while attending a virtual Nova Luna game with @haoleboygames.bsky.social back in 2020, so this felt like a nice return to the festival’s roots for me. ⛄️

Spielmas display with one meeple on 26, sitting in front of the Escape: The Curse of the Temple game box.

We celebrated the first day of @spielmas.bsky.social by revisiting the classic real-time dice game Escape: The Curse of the Temple. My wife and both my daughters made it out alive while I got stuck a few tiles away from the exit. #boardgames

I could feel the Christmas noose beginning to tighten.

I ate there once with some coworkers back when they first opened. It seemed overpriced and disappointing so I never went back.

Hi! Do you spend most of Game Night staring at the shelf, pondering what to play next? I do. Insufferably.

So I made a site, GameNightPicks.com, so my group can vote on what we play next. Much less shelf-staring now.

And you're welcome to use it, too! If you like it, please help spread the word!

if there was a tax that fined you $100,000 per year if you weren't wealthy, then fewer people would be poor. they'd want to avoid that tax

Jen and I saw this at the Idaho International Film Festival one year a long time ago and we still talk about it to this day.

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