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Casual weekend boardgamer. Dog lover. I'm just here for fun! I don't auto-follow. BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/profile/TeaNGames Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/teangames My boardgame YouTube is cozy & chill: https://youtube.com/@teaNgames

White-blonde chihuahua-mix yawning
Male and female cardinal eating black sunflower seeds in a Bird Buddy feeder in backyard. The male feeds the female as soon as she arrives.
Final layout, first game of Bärenpark. 3-player game. My starting board was Bjornepark. All areas are completely filled. My bear tokens were 13, 12, 9, and 5 points. I got about the same amount in tokens in the second game, though slightly less total points. I won this game, despite the wonky layout.
White-blonde chihuahua-mix on rug with muted colors, brown stuffed rabbit in front of her. Dog's ears are at half-cocked angle and she looks ready to leap or bark!
Game in-progress,with 3 big buildings intact, plus the Greenhouses on the left. 2 boxes on the Greenhouse, one each on the 2 Dome cards, and the new built Complex card on the right with no boxes. At this point I have 1 population on my board, 3 money, and 4 food. All Work actions have been taken. I knew that I'd be destroying the big buildings soon, so I stopped to take a pic. I may never be able to do this again! There were some money generating cards in the mix, which is the only way I was able to afford to do this!
White Winged Dove perched on red landing, staring, with head slightly turned, at the camera. She does this a lot. It's like she knows there's a camera there. She also eats the sunflower seeds at the bottom of the frame. She has a black pupil in an orange eye, with a violet-blue ring around her eye. The edge of the white on the lower part of her wing is just visible on the side.
BG Stats Jun 2026 Plays: 47 H-index: 4 Games: 17 New: 5 Players: 5 Locations: 2 Hours: 33 Days: 13 Moon Colony Bloodbath: 8 Carcassonne: 8 Dominion (Second Edition): 6 Chicken!: 5 Collect!: 4 Vantage: 2 Ticket to Ride: 2 Century: Eastern Wonders: 2 Café & Expresso: 2 19 designers: Donald X. Vaccarino: 11% Emerson Matsuuchi: 11% Alan R. Moon: 5% Bruno Cathala: 5%. 31 artists: Chris Quilliams: 17% Julien Delval: 11% Andrea Boekhoff: 5% Anne Pätzke: 5% Atha Kanaani: 5%.
Player board with 2 Work actions done, 1 money, 9 food, & 3 population on the board. (Note: these are upgrade game bits.) Cards remaining for my moon base, left to right, Kale Farm (5 pop), Hydroponics (4 pop), Spaceport (7 pop), Dust Farm (6 pop, last effort to push up population), Generator (5 pop), and the ever-popular Hacker Lair (5 pop).
White-blonde chihuahua-mix facing away from camera, with the head of a plush moose with a knit hat against her on her left. She's lying on a soft pink blanket.
Final layout. Overlapping cards with squares for 4 different colored beans (coffees), drying squares, roasting squares, etc. Card on the left is the warehouse, and where action points are tracked. Got a nice sprawling block for bean production (a lot of cubes still on the board). Fulfilled 3 coffeeshops for points. But couldn't get adjacency for drying or roasting. By game end I had 5 action points (coffee cups on cards) and I needed more because of how inefficient drying and roasting was. Had no red cubes on my warehouse card, but otherwise didn't do to badly balancing the extremely low amounts.
Art deco style artwork on Cafe game box. A woman, a server with a tray of 3 coffees in yellow cups, an arm reaches in from the left pouring coffee from a yellow pot into a yellow cup held by a green gloved hand.
Box lid at the top of pic, Bruno Cathala's name on the upper left. Modular board made of 4 square pieces. Grid on board has squares divided into pink and white halves. The board pieces are double-sided and the orientation when the 4 pieces are laid out is random. The donut pieces are wooden with chocolate design on one side and plain donut on the other side. Flipping your opponent's pieces is part of the game!
Close-up of a donut with red icing and multicolored sprinkles.
My board when the John D. Clair card was triggered. It's in sector 9, not deployed. I had 36 points, 6 money, 5 income.
Lobby with large standee of a cartoon pelican in armor, holding a sword and shield. Behind it is the entrance to the main playing hall. Above the entrance it says PeliCon 2026 in black lettering and below that is a purple banner that says Welcome Tabletop Gamers!!! PeliCon 2026 with a a few sponsors in small print (including Weird Giraffe Games)
Box art of Deadly Dowagers, showing several Victorian ladies, who climb the social ladder through marrying and murdering their husbands, then remarrying. Card play, but only cashing in after the death of a husband. The game-ending prize is the The Duke.
Final board. A large stack of food. 6 money, 14 people tokens on my board (destroyed big buildings which is why I had so many on the board at game end). 3 cards (buildings) left. Left to right: Clone Banks with 1 box token on it, Greenhouses, and Orga. Banks with 2 boxes on it. Work tokens in upper left if mat: game ended before any Work actions had turned up in that shuffle. Playmat is space-themed, stars, nebula etc.
White-blonde chihuahua-mix twisted awkwardly with head down and to the side of her body, legs thrashing (movement not apparent in the pic).
Mission: liberate your homeworld. Involves acquiring cards with red dice placement spots. Destiny: fill card with cubes on player's turn.
My final player area with 16 money, 4 people, no food (don't need it because I've still got the Greenhouse), & no Work actions taken yet this shuffle. Three buildings remain: the Flag (no pop, but play action gives money & it doesn't need feeding), Greenhouses, which exempts cards with boxes on them from needing food), and Complex which has a large population (16). I got an unusually large number of high pop cards & had already destroyed some for the population they held. I held the Dome card in hand, with enough money to build it. 1 work action card and I'd have had 20 more people at game end! An excellent win, which could've been a personal beat win.
White-blonde chihuahua-mix on quilt with off-white pillow which says (in black lettering) This Seat Is Reserved For The Great Chihuahua
Objective cards bottom left, Tile layout center of pic. Lots of Service & Estate tiles. Got 2 Monuments. 2 VP cards under purple and green row, 4 pts on each. Box for my family (Cavendish) on the left. Upper part of pic is the game board.
Sunset, with rooftops and trees silhouetted. Sky is golden in the center of the pic with a line of red-orange clouds in a darkening sky.
Pile of gold and silver colored coins with two different images of Queen Victoria on the front side. Backside had various symbols from the game and coin values (though it seems fairly obvious that larger golden coins would be a higher value than smaller silver colored ones). There's only 2 coin values in the game: 100 & 500. The coins are thick and hefty.
Botton of pic, in the V of the table corner; the marble dispenser. To the left, my energy ring for storing marbles, my dashboard with the starting card under File (ditto for right side of pic, other player). Center: the card market of Gizmos, levels 1-3 and some victory point tokens.
Double-layered player boards, left and right, resources in 4 bit bowls in right corner (plus a pile of Inuit meeples), ship upgrade tiles and cards. The main player board(s) are in sections rather than folded out, with score track to the far left. Above the main board is the first section of map. New sections will be revealed as the journey progresses.
Final layout with red bloom on the bottom left, and colors zigzagging in an up and down line left to right: red, pink, purple, blue, black, yellow, white, orange. Stack of 9 remaining tiles in bottom right of pic.
Player board, final position. The bottom of the board has how each type of tile scores. On this alternate side, the squares for chess pieces are scattered around the board. I lost 5 points for having a bonus tile leftover after filling in the gaps with bonus tiles I earned. The types of tiles are mushrooms (purple), roses (red), chess pieces, trees (which have faces on them) and playing card tiles which gain you single square bonus tiles during play for adjacency.
Bottom tile is a snow-covered monastery with fir trees, middle tile is a River tile witg a curved section of river, a couple of small outbuildings and fir trees. The top tile is the lake (end river tile) with fir trees (tile out of focus).
Camp Happy Trails board. Yellow meeple in upper left corner, pink and red meeples at tbe edge of the lake, casting long shadows...
One corner of Zapotec board, gold city with black and orange buildings in all sectors.
Cost: 35 Sector: 9 U.E.C. John D. Clair Designer Class Vessel. Blue block "Gain all other Blue Rewards on your board." (What you can if you roll a 9) Upside down red block "Gain all other Red Rewards above your board" (What you gain on other player's turn if this ship is deployed above your board.)
White-blonde chihuahua-mix asleep in my lap on top of an old quilt.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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%.
Harry Morgan as Col Potter in M.A.S.H. raising a toast to the new year. Wearing a white beard that says 1951
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.
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.
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.
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.'"
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.
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.
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.
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.'"
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.)
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!🤣)
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!
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.
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.
D10 percentile die, dark blue with an irregularly shaped milky white patch on the right side. 60 and 20 showing in shiny gold.
Clear D20 with red numbers. 18 on top, 2 facing. Santa figure in the die was hard to see. This was the best pic I could get. He's dressed red, with white trim, a white beard, and angry eyes that seem to indicate that someone's on the naughty list!
4 clear dice with red numbers at the top, with elves trapped in each. Second row: pink (purple overtones) D20 with gold numbers, quartz-like D12 with metallic blue numbers, green D10 with white numbers, green percentile D10 with silver metal seams and numbers, shiny glittery blue D8 with silver numbers, shiny glittery dark green D6 with red numbers, opaque green D4 with silver numbers. Bottom row: clear mini-dice set with blue sparkles and green numbers.