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He/Him playing boardgames, buying boardgames, storing boardgames....also reading and occasionally going to work

Four purple Capo meeples stand ready to 'talk' to persons of interest in a game of Speakeasy by Vital Lacerda. $15 in money tokens is displayed on the stylized player baord representing a mobster's office.
Full set up of a 3 player game of Speakeasy by Vital Lacerda. Full board is a map of New York City from the 1920's. Players place small buildings (stills, speakeasys, nightclubs, and casinos) on the map along with pawns representing mafia family members to protect the holdings. Red speakeasy buildings are for the game player as the outside mob breaking into the territory. The players also each have a player board (with blue in focus here) that holds extra buildings, capos used for worker placement actions on the main board, and barrels of rum and whisky to be made and sold during the game. Small money tokens earned during the game are shown above the player board.
Cover box to the murder mystery game Cold Case: A Pinch of Murder by ThinkFun Games. Cover shows the title of the game in bold red banner at the top. The outline of a human body is made in a large pile of flour with several baking utensils surrounding it, including a rolling pin, several measuring cups, and a wooden spoon.
Cover for the book Starter Villian by John Scalzi, featuring a gray and white cat in a black business suit with a dark blue tie
End of game picture of Endangered by Joe Hopkins and Grand Gamers Guild. Pictured are sea otters in singular or pairs on a blue grid map. Pollution tiles can be seen in the background grid. The game box in the background features a close up artist rendering of a tiger. Along the back of the gameboard are several UN Ambassador cards with green 'influence' cubes that are used during gameplay. Game was won on hard mode.
Mid game of Heat: Pedal to the Metal by Days of Wonder. Six race cars on a boardgame track, blue car in the lead, followed by red,green,gray,yellow, and black. A hand of cards for the blue players is splayed listing several numbers from a to 4 representing speed on the track movement. Other boost cards with plus signs are also included with the splay. this is a solo game, so the legends cards are jn the background that show how the non-player cars move on a round. The game box displaying the boardgame name HEAT in bold red letters is in the far background.
Cover box for the boardgame Vantage hy Stonemeier Games. Features a drawing of a wide expansive view of a planet with a volcano in the foreground and several different areas including a desert and a snowy region in the background.
Board setup for Apiary boardgame with various resource tokens in yellow (pollen) blue (water) green (fiber). Bee shaped spaceships appear in the background
Cover box for the board game Genotype by Genius Games. Box features a drawing of an old leather journal with splayed pages for listing genetic characteristics of pea plants. Several drawn green pea pods are also shown on the box. In front of the box is a pyramid of colored dice (green, red, blue, and orange) depicting roman numerals on each side that are used in the game. A score tracker is also shown on the table.
Cover box for The Taverns of Tiefenthal from North Star Games.
Gray Squirrel eating a peanut from a feeder while staring into the camera
Mid game play of Baseball Highlights 2045. Player board depicts a baseball diamond with several blue players pawns as runners and batters. The current batter is shown on the player card in the center of the diamond.
Cover box for board game Innovation Deluxe featuring a black diamond checkerboard pattern on the background. Also shows 5 symbols (diamond, eye, Starburst, mountain, and sparkle) representing the 5 included expansions
Covers of three books from Air and Nothing Press
Black rabbit lounging in the garden
Cover box for Masters of Crime: Vendetta by Kosmos Games. Several 'mafia' style characters on the box featuring the Don, a priest, and various underlings featured in the boardgame.
Playbill cover for Inherit the Wind
Cover box for the boardhame Unfair featuring a cartoon amusement park with roller coaster and a hot air balloon. Also shown is a stack of Funfair city cards and money tokens used in the game.
Preview cover box of Builders of Baldur's Gate by WizKid Games.
Cover box for card game Echoes: The Cocktail, an audio mystery game by Ravensburger
Cover box for Rebel Princess card game by Bezier Games, features unique artwork depicting four fantasy princesses, Pocahontas, Snow White, Thumbalina, and Rapunzel
Cover box for the boardgame Galactic Cruise by Kinson Key Games. Artwork by Ian O'Toole features a rocket ship in various stages of build
A picture of a partial ocean board in the game Finspan. Depicted is a diver meeple next to a fish card showing a great white shark along with a fish and egg token used in the game.
End game ocean board for a solo play of Finspan featuring 8 fish cards along with young fish and egg tokens
Start of game solo set up for boardgame Star Tycoon. Shown are the Galactic Market board, initial solo player homework and Omniforge cards along with the partnership cards. Resource tokens in several colors (blue, green, purple, and red) are located near the Omniforge card.
Busy map of a 5-player game of Ticket to Ride with 5 different train colors (red, blue, black, green, and yellow)
Gray Squirrel on a snow covered deck railing eating shelled peanuts
Box cover for Anachrony the boardgame featuring a sci-fi stylistic triangular logo
Snow covered evergreen tree with multiple male and female cardinals hiding in the branches. Multiple birds on a hanging bird feeder in the snow
Cover box for the dice game Las Vegas from Ravensburger. Box artwork features a white man and woman dressed in night-life attire leaning over a crops table rolling a pair of red casino dice. Also features casino artwork depicting the Fabulous Las Vegas sign, several external casino drawings, a pile of strapped dollar bills, and a fancy car. This version of the game won the 2012 Spiel Des Jahres award and has the winner logo on the box cover.
Mastermind card from Marvel Legendary Midnight Sons expansion featuring Zarathos and his special haunting ability
Box cover for Caper - Europe the boardgame. Cover features and artistic map of Europe and colorful caricatures of crew members that can be hired during the game.
Two boardgame puzzles boxes under the Escape Room the Game banner - one labeled the Baron, the Witch, and the Thief while the other is titled Secret of the Scientist
Ticket to Ride board game with three sets of deluxe trains all converging on Atlanta
A selection of boardgames received for Christmas - My City, Flip 7, Chicken Dice, Taci vs Burrito, Mists Over Carcassonne, Caper - Europe, Panda Royale, Hoppy Salmon, and Tinderblox
Player gameboard for late in game four, a key grand slam looked to tie up the game at 7 all! Four white pawns as batter and three base runners along with the in-play card depicting a Veteran Natural Philadelphia player hitting a homerun.
Cooper's Hawk blue-gray colored bird with striped tail and red eyes, overlooking the bird feeder for smaller birds
Initial gameboard for Waters of Nereus by Dr Finn's Games. Three ships on an ocean grid with various colored gems in each space. Also shown is the blue players main cabin board listing several crew members - Pilot, Boatswain, Purser, Merchant, and Scientist.
Two cards for the boardgames Expeditions, one depicting a Russian female agent named Olga and second featuring her tiger companion names Changa. Also featured near the cards is a metal miniature of a mech for this in-game faction. The mechanical is a steam punk style engine on four legs with a gun on the front.
A boardgame labeled Obsession with a small bag of metal coins
Cooper Hawk above a bird feeder in the snow