Gaming in my Coonoor trip

Had been to Coonoor with Varadarajan and Venkatesh. While Varadarajan has been fairly regular in gaming at home, Venkatesh was a recent convert on my US trip. So this was a good chance to get some gaming done. I had packed about 5 games with a mix of new and familiar. There were some hiccups [...]

Board games thru history

Erik Arneson talks about Board and Card games on his About site. here is an interesting list of the most significant games in the last 200 years. It has Monopoly, it has Scrabble and it also has Hare & Tortoise and the Settlers of Catan!
Board and Card Games Timeline - Most Significant Games Since 1800
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Top 15 games played in 2005

The first calender year in boardgaming was 2005. Here is a list of the top 15 games that I have played with respective no of plays. Of course I tried my best to log my plays on BGG and then got the stats. May have missed a few plays also I think.
Cartagena - 45 [...]

For Sale

For Sale
If there is a game that can be used as an intro to Euro board games then it must be this. An excellent, light, filler auction game that can be taught in 5 minutes, played in 15 minutes and will demand a replay immediately. I have tried it on a number of varying types [...]

Best of Board games

This is a nice site that aggregates many blogs on board games. A good one stop for reading varied posts and info on board games.

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Geeklists

Boardgamegeek has this great feature called Geeklists where users create lists from games in the BGG database. Here r some of the geeklists that I have created.
Now 5 year old son joins in - A geeklist about my son Sushanth's boardgaming.
My 8 year old daughter's gaming experience - That's Shreyasi 
Board games in India

Holidaying and gaming in Pune

The last week was spent holidaying in Pune in my sister's place. The weather was very hot and we could hardly go out and do much. This of course turned out very well for me. More gaming! I was well prepared with a bunch of games. The most played was of course Puerto Rico [...]

Playing board games

Almost all of us have played board games at different points in our life. Of course there are many who haven't too. But this is a personal page about my own current obsession - 'Playing board games'.