Nathan Thornton

A picture of the building you make in the game Flatiron.

FLATIRON! You and your opponent are building NYC’s historic Flatiron Building. Once you’re done, you’ll push your chair back from the table and say: “Look what we built together! You won, I think.” (That’s what I said, anyway).

Box render of Medium: Testing Fate (it's got a fortune-teller-looking lady on it and it's red and gold)

Medium: Testing Fate! It's coming this year! A standalone sequel to Medium (the mind-reading party game), M:TF brings 270 inventive new word cards for even more astonishing mind melds!

Our Xmas and Boxing Day games log!

Lots of fun especially ‘Green Team Wins’ @25thcentury.games which was a hit with all and the utterly absorbing ‘Flip 7’ @theopgames.bsky.social

What did you get to the table?

#boardgames #games #play

If you’re looking for last-minute gift ideas for your board game designer friends, all they want is for you to text them a picture you took of their game in a game store.

YouTube video by Rolling with the Beard Green Team Wins Holiday Party Review - A MUST for Holiday Parties!

We did a holiday expansion for Green Team Wins and Rolling with the Beard did a very fun review of it with a Santa hat on.

Christmas is this week if you're looking for something to spend $10 on and do during a holiday thing, btw.

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YouTube video by BoardGameGeek Top 5* Games for December 2024 - Top 5's w/ Our Family Plays Games

Love that Starla and Mik from @ourfamplaysgames.bsky.social included both Green Team Wins Holiday Party and Holly Jolly in their top 5 holiday themed games. 🎅🎄☃️

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SEVENTY PEOPLE! That's the most people I can imagine doing anything at once. That's amazing, Ruel!

Yeah, that sounds right. I just made up the one with 14, assuming that was the largest game possible.

The largest known game of Green Team Wins was one with 14 players on August 4, 2023. Can Brandon (Optimal Play) break this world record?

YouTube video by Foster the Meeple Funnest Board Games EVER!

Is Green Team Wins one of the FUNNEST GAMES EVER?

Man, I don't know! But that's what Foster the Meeple was saying (and I actually say it all the time, too). Super thank you for putting it on your list, @fosterthemeeple.bsky.social!

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I don't have a specific place I'll be (like I don't have a reserved table in the UnPub room or anything), but I'll be around!

I'll have three prototypes with me for pitching and playing. Two are light-as-a-feather party games (one's about making hand gestures and one's about guessing characters), and the other is an only-slightly-heavier-than-that dice game (about Epcot center kind of). I hope they get played!

The games that I do are mostly party games, and they don't tend to have a ton of rules, but there's one very important rule I like to get into every rulebook I write. People should be cool about things.

I love the unique use of dice here. Interested to hear what the game's all about. Very cool.

Three white baseball-card boxes with the prototypes for my games On Brand, World Expo, and Fancy Hands inside. They’re so great and fun.

My prototypes are done and ready to go to PAX Unplugged!

(I haven’t done anything to the boxes yet)

You don’t have to play games to appreciate a good deal!

THAT OLD WALLPAPER for just five bucks! A very fun game with a sneaky card-choosing mechanic and a one-of-a-kind theme.

I’d love it if you gave it a try!

Image of interior of the Exit the Game Advent Calendar - The Missing Hollywood Star.

We don’t have a ton of holiday traditions, but the Exit Advent Calendar is a perennial one that we always look forward to. This Hollywood star won’t be missing for long!

(I assume they’ll likely be missing for the next 25 days)

Yeaaahhhh, GTW makes the cut! Thanks for playing, Ruel! Those are all fantastic games and perfect choices.

When we had a snow day, I wasn't allowed to leave the yard so I forgot sledding was an option.

And a gingerbread man isn't a cookie, it's a kind of bread!

(both of these are, of course, unassailable defenses).

Green Team Wins Holiday Party will be for sale at PAX Unplugged! And I'll be there too!

It's game #1 of 1 to me!

You know it! Looking forward to seeing you.

Great list! Thanks so much for telling folks about Everything Ever and Green Team Wins!

Meeple Mountain always puts together such a thoughtful holiday gift list. Some really solid choices here and some surprises you might not have heard about!

Congratulations! Nobody does better board game person interviews than you do!

Reindeer games: Hilarious, irresistible games you can play with family and friends over the holidays Our suggestions for games that are fun and easy to learn.

Everything Ever (from Floodgate Games and me) at the top of this heap of this list of games for holiday gatherings from the Minnesota Star Tribune!

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Yes!

Oh good! I hope you had fun with the holiday ones. You just reminded me to post about them. I forgot how many cards were in there!

A box of the Green Team Wins Holiday Party expansion, perched up a handsome dark wood table. It looks like there's abookshelf in the background, but I bet it's board games.

The best of three cards from Green Team Wins Holiday party. One's about cookies, one's about hot cocoa, and one's about how cute dogs can be

The fill in the blank cards from Green Team Wins Holiday Party. It's Shopping Blank (I'd say LIST), Sleigh Blank (I'd say RIDE), and Blank Freeze (I think I'd say DEEP).

The This or That cards from Green Team Wins. One says Sit at the kids' table OR sit at the adults' table. I'd say adults' because at a certain point, I feel like I've earned it.

If a bunch of people come over to your house, there's a lot worse things you could do than play Green Team Wins Holiday Party. It's as entertaining as Green Team Wins, as magical as a holiday, and as fun as a party!

And it has ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE new cards (which seems like too many, kinda).

Sitting down to record a review for Fuego from @keymastergames.bsky.social. We're really enjoyed this firey take on trick-taking.