Chris Anderson

#bgstats 2025 infographic Top games Risk 12 plays Race for the Galaxy 12 plays Ticket to Ride 12 plays That’s Pretty Clever 12 plays Othello 12 plays Hive pocket 12 plays Encore! 12 plays Star Realms 12 plays Tsuro 12 plays Year stats 181 plays 12 H-index 40 games 19 new 54 players 8 locations 102 hours 54 days Bar chart showing most plays in January, November, and December 84 mechanics Set Collection 30% Dice Rolling 27% Hand Management 25% Cooperative Game 20% Tile Placement 20%

I do a digital x by y challenge each year. Just to push me to play some board games and not just Magic and Snap.
I started strong this year and decided on a 12x12, then promptly didn’t play digital games for 9 months. Managed to finish it in the end though. Lots of roll and writes.
Happy New Year!

Occasionally I get a comment about someone finding Tempus Imperium Aeternum, which is nice and gives me a burst of energy to invest in it. This happened a few times recently which resulted in an update to the rules to clarify tunnels and 14 new maps.

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Final score of Cat Spotting game laid out in the table. 3 cats to 17 cats.

My wife is much better at spotting cats. @tototam.bsky.social

Ticket to Ride final score and map. Me: 144, 4 bots 1, 8, 18, and 4.

This isn’t my top score against the bots, but it may be my most dominating game. Started with some pretty good tickets as well.

Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LotR or Marvel.

I continually try to get people to watch this movie. It’s gotten a boost since its disastrous release, but still far from the recognition it deserves.

That’s great to hear. It’s a fantastic design. I remember being instantly hooked from your 2-min video.

Congratulations! I didn’t realize this was out yet. Just ordered it.

That’s Wizard! - Fast-Paced Strategic Spellcasting Duels Design a custom spell deck in this two or four player simultaneous-action card game and feel the thrill of a real wizard duel.

I’ve play tested this so many times over the past few years. Great to see it finally coming out.
That’s Wizard! - Fast-Paced Strategic Spellcasting Duels
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Complicated black and white line maze.

Finally got some time to work on a new maze. Connect the blue spot to the red spot.

Space Station Disaster Space Station Disaster is a light strategy game. You and your opponents are building a space station by laying out hex tiles. But most of the tiles contain disasters like aliens, radiation, and fire. ...

PnP files for my first completed board game (Space Station Disaster 2014) have just been approved on Board Game Geek. Someday I hope to revisit this design and refine some of the rough edges, but it was always a lot of fun to play. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16...

Marginally I suppose. It’s more thematic than mechanical.

A room with a table that has a board game set up on it, an office chair with a laptop computer set on the seat, and an iPad videoing it all that is rubber banded to a stand.

My pitching setup for today. Thanks to @resonym.com, @craftygames.bsky.social and @25thcentury.games for coming out and hearing the pitches of the final Board Game Workshop contest winners! Awesome to meet you all!

BG Stats 2024 Plays: 50 H-index: 5 Games: 24 New: 16 Players: 31 Locations: 4 Hours: 33 Days: 20 Ticket to Ride: 6 Tigris & Euphrates: 5 Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King: 5 Noch mal!: 5 Star Realms: 5 Forbidden Jungle: 2 Boss Monster: The Dungeon Building Card Game: 2 Schotten-Totten: 2 This Game Is KILLER: 2 38 designers: Inka Brand: 8% Markus Brand: 8% Reiner Knizia: 8% Alan R. Moon: 4% Alexander Pfister: 4%.

Just finished my digital 5x5 for the year.

What’s a better game name?
“Cheating on a Math Test in Middle School” or
“Cheating on a Middle School Math Test”? 🎲✂️

Wallet and rules for the Italian version of In Vino Morte

In Vino Morte is now in Italian from Pendragon

Meal prep is just having a lot of leftovers for a meal you didn’t eat.

I’ve been working on this for years now. It’s relatively easy to make a tiny 18XX game that fits in a tin. But that just feels like an annoying way to play. Getting the feeling of 18XX with a game that feels right at tin size is the elusive goal. Good luck!

Poor unwanted AL 😢

I also love heist movies and what others have said are some of my favorites, but the “One Crew over the Crewcoo's Morty” episode of Rick & Morty is great if your a fan of heist movies.

If anyone has a few minutes free it’s the last day for judging in my contest. It only takes 5-10 minutes to judge. Watch a 2 minute video and give a few sentences of feedback. Any help would be appreciated. Judging ends in 18 hours. theboardgameworkshop.com/design-conte...

If you wanted to be a dinosaur when you were a kid and feel bad as an adult for failing to achieve that dream, remember that dinosaur means “terrible lizard”. And as a mammal you are a pretty terrible lizard.

Blue Sky Screenshot of two posts. Reposted by EvenWeirderMove it's gita time @xoxogossipgita.bsk... • 3h Drake: William Shakespeare @shakes... • 3h O, speak to me no more! These words like daggers enter in my ears. Reposted by Eize Basa the 4h alas poor yorick. we were bsky moots, horatio. a fellow of infinite bangers, of most excellent posts. his hath borne me with his reskeet a thousand times. and now how abhorred on my skyline!

It’s a Shakespeare kind of day I guess.

If some fellow 🎲✂️ designers have a few minutes, consider chipping in to review entrants to this year's Board Game Design Workshop contest. I found that it takes about eight minutes or less to watch the 2 min video, write up your thoughts, and maybe rewatch to double check your feedback.

Thought this was in response to my contest post. Haha.

We get a few designs from intergenerational design teams. And some from kids. But it’s mostly adults and all compete on the same level. So I wouldn’t consider any help or codesigning cheating.

These look great. The future is bright.

If anyone has a few minutes free, I could use some more feedback in my contest. The videos are only 2 minutes long, so it shouldn’t take too long to give feedback to one game. theboardgameworkshop.com/design-conte...

Happy Birthday 🥳

One Card Maze Season 2 Wallets, Boss Mazes for more of a challenge, Fledgling Mazes for players who need a little help, and more Exclusive Mazes!

Just backed One Card Maze Season 2. I played a few of the earlier ones and it’s a very neat concept.
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