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Casual weekend boardgamer. Dog lover. I'm just here for fun! I don't auto-follow.

My #boardgame YouTube is also just for fun. Cozy. Chill. https://youtube.com/@teaNgames
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Happiness is a warm lapdog on a chilly morning. Esme is very comfy🙂 #chihuahua #rescuedog #dogsofbluesky
White-blonde chihuahua-mix asleep in my lap on top of an old quilt.
January 13, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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Game day today! 4 person play of Moon Colony Bloodbath AND we made it all the way through the Event deck!🎉 I did really well, but one of the people I taught won! #boardgames
My final board, character Dr Kaneko. I think this was the most buildings I've ever ended with. 6 buildings (including Flag). 3 people on the board, 4 food stacked, 2 money, all 4 Work action tokens on the board. Visible above my board is the building discard (had to reshuffle the building deck for the first time ever), the Progress deck facedown, and the final event card on top of the already played cards in the Progress deck. Foreground: the back of Esme's head (white-blonde chihuahua-mix) as she sits up in my lap and looks over the play area (out of focus in the background) during the game.
January 10, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Happy rebirthday, Esme!🎉 She was a starving street chihuahua a local rescue group picked up. 4 yrs ago today I took her home and she started her new life! Such a joyful companion animal❣️ And quite the little boardgamer dog, too! (Leave the table: lose your chair!😆) #dogsofbluesky #dogs #chihuahua
White-blonde chihuahua-mix standing alert with one ear up and one ear down, looking intently past the camera. A stepping stone is in the foreground, a birdbath and dragon sculpture in the background. White-blonde chihuahua-mix, eyes closed, ears down, lying on the other dog's blankey and pillow on the couch. It's a chihuahua thing: the whole world is hers, unless she barks it away.
January 9, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Discovered that it's possible to win without any Helsinki, Copenhagen, or Stockholm routes. (I did draw one Oslo destination card, though.) Ticket to Ride Nordic Countries. #boardgames
Nordic Countries map showing white trains clustered around the lower right side of the board and a long purple train route from Oslo up along the eastern seaside to Honnigsväg. (There's also a couple of short purple routes where I placed trains at or near game end, without any route cards for those.)
January 2, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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First #boardgame of 2026: Winter Carcassonne❄️ Then a couple of Pack O Games: Dig & Bog. Love the artwork on both! Such derpy dogs! Such expressive Frogs! Dig was nifty. Bog was surprisingly cut-throat for such cute frogs🐸 Played 2 games of Moon Colony Bloodbath but did so badly I didn't take pics🤣
Final layout for Winter Carcassonne with scoreboard at the bottom of pic, meeples and scoring tile to the left of it. Game box at the left edge. This is the second edition Winter Carcassonne, and it has a winter River I. The lake tile is at the top of the pic. There are a few large cities. No meeples left on the board; we removed them as we did final scoring. Three small thin cards with derpy looking cartoonish dogs on them. The card on the left is a rusty brown with a generic cross-eyed dog with tongue out. The second card from the left is yellow with a corgie type dog, the third card from the left is an orangish brown with maybe a dachshund with crossed eyes and tongue out, the card on the right is gray with a gray-white very thin dog, maybe a greyhound type. They all look very silly. Some of the frog cards in Bog laid out in 2 rows of 4 cards (not a game layout, just for the picture) the top of the thin cards has the pattern the frog must move on lilypad cards. The bottom has circles and checkmarks. The small boxes of Dig and Bog, standing on end. Each box is slightly bigger than a pack of gum, and about the same shape. Dig has the rear end of a dog sticking up as the dog digs. Bog had a very canny looking frog sitting on a lily pad with a bloom beside.
January 1, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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2025 BGStats for on-the-table play. 2 versions of Carcassonne--regular & Winter 2nd ed. 4 of top 9 were new to us: Martian Dice, Obsession, Space Base, & Moon Colony Bloodbath. 3 were first played at PeliCon. Surprisingly good stats considering my health issues this past year!

Happy new year!🎉
BG Stats 2025 Plays: 320 H-index: 9 Games: 87 New: 45 Players: 5 Locations: 4 Hours: 230 Days: 124 Carcassonne: 39 Moon Colony Bloodbath: 37 Space Base: 17 Carcassonne: Winter-Edition: 16 Obsession: 10 Cartographers Heroes: 10 Dominion (Second Edition): 10 Martian Dice: 10 Scrabble: 9 91 designers: Alan R. Moon: 3% Ryan Laukat: 3% Ted Alspach: 3% Uwe Rosenberg: 3%. 128 artists: Julien Delval: 4% Ryan Laukat: 4% Andrey Gordeev: 3% Carrie Cantwell: 3% Cecilia Mok: 3%.
January 1, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Happy New Year, @thosw.bsky.social 🥂🥃
Harry Morgan as Col Potter in M.A.S.H. raising a toast to the new year. Wearing a white beard that says 1951
January 1, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Last play of Obsession for 2025! #boardgames
My player board with improvement tiles, the main board above it. I maxxed out reputation, have 2 available servants (under butler, housekeeper), 2 ladies maids one section over, and footman, ladies maid, valet, and butler in expended service. All my improvement tiles have been flipped. I have 3 tiles of brown, blue, & green, 2 red tiles (one a monument, the Garden Maze), and 4 purple tiles. I played Cavendish family. The other player board is just visible on the right side, Asquith family. The main player board has a pile of cardboard money in the center and one tile missing at game end. I did unusually well on both objective cards and VP cards. I was able to score all 3 objectives and had a total of 14 VP on the VP cards.
December 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Set up for 1st play of Forever Home, which the family gave us for Christmas. The dog art is so good I almost forgot to look at the pattern on the cards!😆 Esme, our little street chihuahua, really loves the theme! #boardgames #dogsofbluesky #chihuahua
White blonde chihuahua mix sitting in chair at the table looking up at the cover box of Forever Home. Our elder dog under the table below her. Beginning layout for Forever Home. 2 player boards with green grids, a drawstring bag containing tokens, scorepad, rehome scoring cards above commendation board, training cards below it and 4 dog tokens below it. Doggie meeples in 7 colors are on the commendation board.
December 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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We also got this little gem, but will be playing it another day when we have time to sink into the story. (The rest of our day will be games with family and lots of food!) #boardgames
Cover art on box of The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring Trick-taking Game. Shimmery foil art done in a stained glasa style with a large One Ring on the cover. The box is on our new space themed game mat.
December 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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We did it! On Christmas morning! We got all the way through the Event deck of Moon Colony Bloodbath to trigger game end. I won with 20 population left. It's the first time no one has triggered game end by having zero population. A happy Christmas for the doomed moon colony😆 #boardgames
Collage if 4 pics. Upper left is game set up to play on Game Topper with new space-themed mat. My starting hand if cards in the foreground. Upper right: my final player board with 4 buildings remaining, 2 of which have boxes on them, 3/4 work actions have been taken (actually I forgot to place & remove them at end of last shuffle), 2 food & 5 money remaining. No population tokens on board. Lower left: Opponent's final game board, 1 Cave card left, 3 population on board, 4 food, 3 money. Lower right: the final card of the Event deck, Event 13, added to the Progress deck. "Instruction Manual End of Game. (Most population wins. '"Fine. I'll check the manual.'"
December 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Dice Advent Calendar Day 25: A shiny metal D20 for Christmas Day! The golden snowman is the 20. Merry Christmas and happy holidays, everyone❣️🎄🎅⛄️🎁🎉
Sparkly green D20 with gold metal sharp edges and a gold snowman for the number 20. 14, 16, 6, and 8 also showing. The die is on the green tab from the calendar with the number 25 in gold.
December 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Dice Advent Calendar Day 24: A hot pink D20 to complete the 4th set! (The other mixed set also had a pink D20, though it was a much lighter color & had gold numbers.)

One more day to go, & it's supposed to be another D20 (metal)!
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Hot pink D20, translucent, withngold sparkles and shiny red numbers. 20 is showing on top with 10 and 8 facing. The die is on the dark green tab for the day with the number 24 in gold.
December 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Advent Dice Calendar Day 23: Another percentile die, jade green and pink. A little pop of springtime in late December!🌸
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D10 percentile die, jade green on the left and opaque pink on the right, 70 & 30 showing. Numbers in black. The die is laying on the tab for the calendar day, drak green with gold number 23.
December 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Our Moon Colony Bloodbath end trigger is always someone losing all population. BUT today we almost made it to the end of Event deck!! Soooo close! Game end card in sight, but we couldn't get the "add next event" card before our population tanked. I won with 1 single people token left. #boardgames
On the left the progress deck showing Event 8 Accident, -3 population. (Flavor text: "To calm down I have some hot cocoa. I've started to develop a Pavlovian response to the sound of air escaping and people screaming.") And that was enough to end the game. On the right, the final card in the Event Deck, "Event 13 Instruction Manual, End of Game. (Most population tokens wins.) 'Fine I'll check the manual.'"
December 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Board games yesterday! A couple of games of Jokkmokk The Winter Market & Ticket to Ride Nordic Countries. We've been playing TtR Northern Lights so much that it was a bit of a jolt to go back to Nordic Countries! Every TtR is a bit different! #boardgames
Jokkmokk The Winter Market set up for our second game. Sets used: Fika, Snowflakes, Bell, Friend, Mystery Box, and Candy. Cards are dealt into slots around the board. The Day and Night decks are on the colorful market board. A cardboard figure is on the starting slot behind alternatinh yellow and red meeples. (It's set up for a 2 player game.) Final board for Ticket to Ride Nordic Countries with a double row of my finished tickets at the bottom, along with the Globetrotter bonus card gor most completed routes. Purple and white trains wind around the board for various routes. Beautiful map done in cool colors, lavender, white, & blue.
December 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Advent Dice Calendar Day 22: Whoa! A metal D8! This looks like a widget from a space ship, like maybe a '50s sci-fi movie. Kind of artistic industrial. #boardgames
Silver metalic D8 with segmented piping along the edges. Numbers are small, silver metal on a blue background within a small round porthole design on each side. Die is resting on the dark green day tab with golden number 22 from the calendar.
December 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Advent Dice Calendar Day 21: A very dark purple D6. It looks opaque, but held up to the light it shines blue. The black numbers on a purple so dark it's almost black seems like an unsuccessful design to me. On a table in a well-lit room it's not easy to read at a glance. #boardgames
Dark purple D6 with black number 1 on top. Numbers 2 & 3 are not really visible on the sides. It's positioned on the dark green tab with gold number 21.
December 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Dice Advent Calendar Day 20: Beautiful iridescent D10! The base die is a dark translucent red, with tons of bright blue sparkles! #boardgames
D10, with 6 and 2 showing in black. The base die is a dark translucent red, with tons of bright blue sparkles! The die is on the edge of the tab from the calendar. It's dark green with a gold 20. Yep, day 20! Christmas is almost here!
December 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Dice Advent Calendar Day 19: The final die in the holiday elf set, D4! (That makes 3 complete sets, with more to come!) #boardgames
Clear D4 with red numbers, 1 at the apex, 3 & 4 on the bottom. A tiny elf in a green suit and hat is sideways inside the die. The die is sitting on the green tab from the calendar show the day number 19 in gold.
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Dice Advent Calendar Day 18: Pale yellow D12 with blue sparkles! #boardgames
Pale yellow D12 with blue sparkles! White numbers. Upside down 11 on top, 6 & 5 showing. Beside it the tab for the calendar: dark green with gold 18 on it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Dice Advent Calendar Day 17: D6 with elf inclusion. This is the penultimate die for the elf set. All I need is the elf D4 to complete it. So far I've gotten 1 mini-dice set (Day 1), one full set of mixed dice, all but one of the holiday (elf) set, & a few of what will be a 4th mixed set! #boardgames
Clear D6 with bright red numbers. An elf figure wearing green is face-up inside the die, with arms raised. ("I surrender! Just let me out! Help!🤣)
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Dice Advent Calendar Day 16: Oh, wow! This was unexpected. A departure from cooler colors on the spectrum, this golden D8 almost looks like amber! #boardgames
D8 amber colored with shiny blue numbers. Upside down 6 and 8 showing. Die is set on green tab with the day number, but I fiddled with the position to get the best color so the tab and number are barely showing🤦‍♀️ Background is granite countertop in warm browns and black flecks. The die almost blends in!
December 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Dice Advent Calendar Day 15: Dark blue D4 with gold numbers. It's so dark that I had to set it up slightly tipped so the light could show the color. #boardgames
Dark blue D4 with gold numbers. Numbers 1, 4, 3 facing. Die is set on the tab for the day, dark green with a gold number 15. I propped the tab up slightly so the light could catch the color of the die better. It's otherwise so dark it could almost pass for black.
December 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Today played a couple of games of Christmas Patchwork and Spirits of Christmas. The latter is a nifty new Christmas co-op Jen & Jayne from Spielmill @isotriajayne.bsky.social sent us! A fun addition to our collection of Christmas themed #boardgames
Set up for 1st game of Patchwork. 2 golden colored player boards with square grids, the main board with colored patchwork squares in a circular path to the center, with the tiles in a circle around the board. The single square blue "patches" placed on the main board look like tiny square presents with a ribbon. The tiles are also designed to look like colorfully wrapped presents. Final board with multicolored tiles. The single square blue "patches" placed on the main board look like tiny square presents with a yellow ribbon. The tiles are also designed to look like colorfully wrapped presents. Many tiles have golden buttons on them, as these are the currency of the game. There are button currency tiles beside the board totally 33 pts. Cover art Spirits of Christmas "A Ghostly Cooperative Adventure Card Game" is written in the lower right corner. Scene shiws a lamplit narrow street, swirling mists which may be ghosts and a tall elderly man in a top hat about to enter a building on the right. Final layout at the end of the 3rd Chapter showing Charity and Compassion cards face up, and a row of chapter cards, datk colored, face down. A rondel above that shows the 4 possible actions and there's a pile of gold cardboard coins that are spent for the actions. The deck of spirit cards is in the lower left because I'd alreadt started to pick up cards when I paused to take a pic.
December 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM