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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they)
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Game designer, musician, software engineer.

https://blinks.github.io/
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View from a conference today into fog over the Puget Sound.
November 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Cross Bronx Expressway -- my public sector was too quick to build housing and it left us in a rough budgeting spot. Community and I survived through the 40s, 50s, and 60s to get to the end with Private sector's win.

Lots learned for next time though.
An early game of Cross Bronx Expressway, designed by NBSP, published by GMT Games.
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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I've played a few games. @kenkuhn.bsky.social noticed that I only track about 70% if we compare stats, and even so I'm in the thousands.

For me, games provide a bit of structure while hanging out with my favorite people, and my partner and I love to host.
BG Stats: 6048 plays in 1656 games.
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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That's a fun way to go -- Bruce and I were discussing taking the Coast Starlight if our flights back got cancelled 😅 fortunately didn't have to pull that trigger.
Sunset out a plane window. Clouds out a plane window.
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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A productive demo of Echo from the Dark yesterday at #SDHistCon
Echo from the Dark, final game state.
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I make this soup a lot.
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Good gaming in October.
BG Stats Oct 2025 Plays: 32 H-index: 2 Games: 19 New: 8 Players: 12 Locations: 3 Hours: 36 Days: 6 A Victory Lost Maria Echo from the Dark Vantage Sniper Elite: The Board Game Age of Steam Guards of Atlantis II Bohnanza A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) 21 designers: Jamey Stegmaier: 10% (Uncredited): 5% Adam Blinkinsop: 5% Alan Stone: 5% Christian T. Petersen: 5%.
November 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Stoked to get this to the table. Turned out amazing.
October 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Space Empires: 4x. All good things must come to an end.
Part way into a 3v1 of Space Empires: 4x, with all expansions. Yellow, Green, and Red are teamed up to play against a super powered Blue.
September 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Fate of the Fellowship is awesome.
BG Stats Aug 2025 Plays: 15 H-index: 2 Games: 8 New: 2 Players: 8 Locations: 3 Hours: 14 Days: 6 The Gang The Crew: Mission Deep Sea The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship Viticulture Patience Echo from the Dark Civolution Dice of Madness 10 designers: (Uncredited): 12% Adam Blinkinsop: 12% Alan Stone: 12% Jamey Stegmaier: 12% John Cooper: 12%.
September 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Fig being very helpful as my Fields of Fire partner.
A black and white cat sprawling over the counter sheets for Fields of Fire. A black and white cat in the Fields of Fire box.
September 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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A while back a friend got me a nice kit for this, I assume intended by Stanley for holding screws or something. It's awesome but I might need to get another...
A "Stanley" organizer, full of game components.
August 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Should have made an "assembly" variant in BG Stats to time this.
A complex but beautiful dice tower from Fate of the Fellowship that looks like the tower of Mordor.
August 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Think I'm pretty happy about these, tbh.
2007 October: The Orange Box 2008 November: Hinterland and The Settlers VI: Gold 2009 October: Torchlight 2009 November: Evil Genius
August 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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"I don't know if all my rolls tonight add up to 20." -- rolls a 20.
A 20 on a 20-sided die, in a box.
June 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Yellow & Yangtze
June 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Good gaming month, albeit in spurts.
BG Stats May 2025 Plays: 78 H-index: 4 Games: 27 New: 6 Players: 16 Locations: 3 Hours: 53 Days: 11 The Gang Crokinole Similo Echo from the Dark Viticulture Hot Streak Flip 7 Heat: Pedal to the Metal Bohnanza 35 designers: Alan Stone: 7% Jamey Stegmaier: 7% (Uncredited): 3% Adam Blinkinsop: 3% André Santos: 3%.
June 1, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Caylus!
May 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Improvised miniatures are as good as any.
Two pieces of trail mix on a quickly sketched RPG map.
May 14, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Pairing with lamb, which is looking pretty good!
Roast lamb.
May 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Tasting the Cote Rôtie today.
The three E. Guigal "La Las" — syrah from the Northern Rhône valley, some co-fermented with viognier.
May 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Shinjuku: Airports.
Two copies of Shinjuku on the table, one with a new Osaka map. Playing with three players on each map, with a kind of bughouse "airports" ruleset.
May 9, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Not very many plays this month for me; May should be a better game time for sure.
BG Stats Apr 2025 Plays: 15 H-index: 2 Games: 11 New: 4 Players: 11 Locations: 3 Hours: 15 Days: 7 The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game Echo from the Dark The Gang Dune: The Dice Game Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game Shinjuku The Search for UAPs The Quacks of Quedlinburg Dracula vs Van Helsing 13 designers: Wolfgang Warsch: 18% Adam Blinkinsop: 9% Bryan Bornmueller: 9% Corey Andalora: 9% Donnie Coleman: 9%.
May 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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The spice must flow!
The Dice Must Flow, an old dice version of Dune.
April 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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This is such a cool bit of graphic design.
Kaiju and associated card for the Shinjuku board game, Supernova edition.
April 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM