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Yub Nub

https://spacebiff.com/2026/01/07/yubibo/

Published: January 7, 2026 19:22

Yubibo exists to reveal which member of your group has selfish proprioception, a sentence I never could have conceptualized until I experienced a friend, with a dozen sticks poised between his fingers and those of four peers, suddenly rotating his wrist…

Movin’ Up an’ Down Again

https://spacebiff.com/2026/01/06/explorers-of-navoria/

Published: January 7, 2026 03:43

For all that board games thrive on taking us to new places, exploration is surprisingly hard to do well. Explorers of Navoria, designed by Meng Chunlin, is a prime example. Set in a colorful world redolent of Root’s woodland or Oath’s turbulent empire, and…

Best Week 2025! The Index!

https://spacebiff.com/2025/12/31/best-week-2025-index/

Published: December 31, 2025 16:42

Another turn of the Wheel. 2025 was a banner year for board games, which by extension means it was a banner year for Best Week. Down below, you’ll find an index of the year’s picks. Click on any of the images to be whisked to the corresponding article. To…

Best Week 2025! All My Children!

https://spacebiff.com/2025/12/30/best-week-2025-day-5/

Published: December 30, 2025 16:04

In those now-unreachable years before my daughters came along, I remember balking at certain statements. “Some things you simply can’t understand until you have children,” someone would say. Now that I’ve had kids, I’m adult enough to admit they were…

Best Week 2025! The D.T.R.!

https://spacebiff.com/2025/12/29/best-week-2025-day-4/

Published: December 29, 2025 15:12

Do people still D.T.R.? When I was a youngling, the acronym stood for Define The Relationship, that belly-clenching moment when two people would sit across from one another, lock eyes, and hold a serious discussion about whether to go steady. Nowadays it…

Best Week 2025! Beatrixmania!

https://spacebiff.com/2025/12/28/best-week-2025-day-3/

Published: December 28, 2025 17:32

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a publisher have more of a bottle rocket year than DVC Games. Home to the design collective Jasper Beatrix — which thankfully avoids the pitfalls of the now-defunct Prospero Hall by offering actual attribution — DVC Games has…

Best Week 2025! Heart of Darkness!

https://spacebiff.com/2025/12/27/best-week-2025-day-2/

Published: December 27, 2025 16:18

This will surprise absolutely nobody, but I am sometimes accused of being a big old bummer. A downer. A morose feel-bad baby. Nietzsche said that if you stare into the abyss it’ll gaze back, and I’ve found that to be true, but in locking eyes with the…

Best Week 2025! Picture Perfect!

https://spacebiff.com/2025/12/26/best-week-2025-day-1/

Published: December 26, 2025 15:44

What a year. Best of times, worst of times, that’s what we’re supposed to say. For board games, though, 2025 was a banner year, full of tremendous titles both big and small. As ever, Best Week is a celebration of the board games that struck me the most…

Space-Cast! #52. Fellowship of the Trick

https://spacebiff.com/2025/12/22/sbsc-52/

Published: December 23, 2025 04:13

Transforming a work of literature into a trick-taking game is no mean feat, especially when that work is as influential as The Lord of the Rings. Today, we’re joined by Bryan Bornmueller, creator of the trick-taking versions of both The Fellowship of the…

Yoink: The Gathering

https://spacebiff.com/2025/12/18/yoink-the-gathering/

Published: December 18, 2025 20:12

It occurs to me that I’ve never written about Mindbug. Co-designed by Richard Garfield, a fact the box prominently advertises, along with Skaff Elias, Marvin Hegen, and Christian Kudahl, there are a bunch of these things out in the world. Six core sets and…

I Don’t Wanna Do Your Dirty Work

https://spacebiff.com/2025/12/17/night-soil/

Published: December 18, 2025 01:10

Whenever someone gets rosy-eyed about “the good old days,” it’s a surefire sign they’ve never cracked a history book. Ahh, the good old days, back when men were men, their eyesight obscured by forty thanks to sun damage. When women were women, dead at…

A Prickle of Trickers

https://spacebiff.com/2025/12/16/venus-beastro-hedgehog/

Published: December 16, 2025 23:58

Say it with me now: All I play anymore is trick-taking games. Every so often, one comes along that makes me perk up and take note. Which is an exciting (if unfair) way of setting these three Indie Games Night Market games against one another. Three…

Queen of Lies

https://spacebiff.com/2025/12/15/queen-of-spies/

Published: December 15, 2025 18:35

I’ve said before that Salt & Pepper Games is doing some of the finest work in the industry, especially when it comes to historical titles that draw in newer and veteran players alike. Queen of Spies pairs Liz Davidson with David Thompson, who produce a…

All for Freedom and for Pleasure

https://spacebiff.com/2025/12/10/the-old-kings-crown-2/

Published: December 10, 2025 19:38

The more I play The Old King’s Crown, the more I become enamored with it. Which is saying something, given that I’ve been playing it for something like five years, beginning with Pablo Clark’s rough digital prototype, then a more polished physical…