Rex Devlin

Box cover for railway boom board game.

Been a good month of culling games. Sold some that would even be top 20 for me, but I just never play them for various reasons.

Treated myself and bought Railway Boom. First purchase of 2026.

A group of nice speckled dice and boring opaque dice.

Dear Thundergryph,
Etherstone is FANTASTIC. 10/10. Love it.
BUT.
Had to buy the dice on the right because I was feeling annoying needing to ask for help to tell apart the black and green all the time.
It’s not as bad in the pic. I guess I could play outside or something if I want to use yours.

Taking a new approach to culling boardgames. Started allowing myself to let go of games like but never get to the table.
And with no purchases in January and none so far in February. Hopefully a more balanced year.

Never seen that Sushi Go edition. Neat.

Now I just want it more. And it’s just not available anywhere here (US). 😭

Hoping to get Railway Boom one of these days.

It’s great.

Playing my own games status at end of January:

Played: 23
Total Games: 135
Remaining: 112
% Complete: 17%

BG Stats Jan 2026 Plays: 35 H-index: 2 Games: 30 New: 11 Players: 6 Locations: 2 Hours: 30 Days: 19 The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game: 4 Etherstone: 2 Magical Athlete: 2 War of the Ring: Second Edition: 1 Gaia Project: 1 Concordia Venus: 1 Le Havre: 1 Disney Villainous: 1 The White Castle: 1 43 designers: Reiner Knizia: 10% (Uncredited): 3% Aaron Donogh: 3% Alain Orban: 3% Bobby Hill: 3%.

January coming to a close. Some good Boardgame plays this month.

One more week in January. On track to be the first month with no new board game purchases since… May 2024. 😬

He just did it.
Maybe a strongly worded letter or a snarky tweet to follow.

Box cover for Manhattan Project Energy Empire

My favorite new to me games of 2025:
10: Hallertau
9: Marrakesh
8: Rebirth
7: SILOS
6: Dune Imperium: Uprising
5: Zoo Vadis
4: Alhambra
3: ARCS
2: March of the Ants
1: Manhattan Project: Energy Empire

The totals for 2025 ended a bit higher than I’d like.
Additions: 62
Removals: 41
Net increase: 21 games.
Collection hovering around 200 including expansions (and preorders not here yet), which is probably too much for me.

2026 goals: limit purchases. Play owned games. Consider further culls.

BG Stats 2024 Plays: 390 H-index: 8 Games: 144 New: 69 Players: 9 Locations: 4 Hours: 273 Days: 178 Harmonies: 15 Backgammon: 12 My City: Roll & Build: 12 Yokai Septet: 11 My City: 10 Splendor Duel: 10 Seize the Bean: 9 Akropolis: 9 The Castles of Burgundy: 7 145 designers: Bruno Cathala: 5% Reiner Knizia: 5% Michael Kiesling: 4% Antoine Bauza: 3% Wolfgang Kramer: 2%

Comparing this to 2024…
Almost less of everything in 2025, but still had some good gaming done.

War of the Ring board game set up.

And some War of the Ring.
So good.
Middle-earth was saved.

Le Havre board game set up.

Some solo Le Havre to ignore the hellhole we live in.

BG Stats 2025 Plays: 301 H-index: 7 Games: 136 New: 64 Players: 10 Locations: 4 Hours: 219 Days: 153 The Hobbit: There and Back Again: 16 Santorini: Pantheon Edition: 9 Alhambra: Family & Friends Compact Edition: 8 Disney Villainous: 7 The Castles of Burgundy: 7 Flamecraft Duals: 7 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea: 7 Tiny Towns: 6 Backgammon: 6 139 designers: Reiner Knizia: 7% Bruno Cathala: 3% Michael Kiesling: 3% Uwe Rosenberg: 2% Antoine Bauza: 2%.

As 2025 comes to an end. My year in board games.
Happy New Year.

Went through my owned games. Have some I’ve never played even though I owned for, in one case, 2.5 years. Also others that haven’t been played since 2018.

2026 goal: play my games.

This aged well. Will update in a few days.

Pancakes in the shape of reindeer faces with bacon antlers, banana and blueberry eyes and banana noses.

Devlin house tradition.
Missing the strawberry nose / bows because elder gremlin ate them all.

Never really thought of them that way, but now that you say it… I can see it.

Running through the Boardgame numbers and it looks like 35 games sold/given away vs 52 games added (assuming no further adds - not expecting any).
Oof.
Too big a swing up. Gotta be pickier next year.

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A bit all over the place this week.

BG Stats Nov 2025 Plays: 36 H-index: 2 Games: 23 New: 9 Players: 8 Locations: 2 Hours: 23 Days: 15 The Hobbit: There and Back Again: 12 Alhambra: Family & Friends Compact Edition: 2 Tiny Towns: 2 Castles of Mad King Ludwig: 1 El Grande: 1 Apiary: 1 Gnome Hollow: 1 Innovation: 1 The Bloody Inn: 1 27 designers: Reiner Knizia: 13% Bruno Cathala: 8% Wolfgang Kramer: 8% Ammon Anderson: 4% Antoine Bauza: 4%.

November board game plays.
Chart by: @bgstatsapp.bsky.social

The gremlins LOVE The Hobbit, There & Back Again.

You just died, the sixth picture in your camera roll is what killed you.

Me, 3 seconds later realizing that’s probably what you were referring to since it was your repost.
I’m still tired.

Sometimes the timeline lines up just right.

Sounds like something a race would say.

A shelf with about 50 board games.

Well, here’s one of them.