My Games To Play List

An impressive endeavor lately has been the 100, a listing of the top 100 board games, voted on by a group of various people on the 'net (including me, though I have no idea what I voted for, because it was a year ago).

There are lots of good games on there, and a surprising number that I haven't played, though I have to remind myself that I've only been heavily playing board games for 3 years and I've only really had the opportunity to play out-of-print games since I started going to EndGame just one year ago.

Here's my list of games from the list that I haven't played, but that I'm interested in:

• Tichu (#10)
• Die Macher (#22)
• Showmanager/Atlantic Star (#28)
• RoboRally (#32)
• Torres (#33)
• Wildlife Adventure (#34)
• Tikal (#39)
• Traumfabrik (#43)
• 1830 (#45)
• Daytona 500 (#53)
• Schnappchen Jagd (#57)
• Wizard (#58)
• Stephenson's Rocket (#61)
• Elfenland (#66)
• Ave Caesar (#68)
• Breaking Away (#71)
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (#73)
• Taboo (#74)
• Hare & Tortoise (#75)
• Was Sticht (#78)
• Un Reinfenbreite (#84)
• Battle Cry (#85)
• Code 777 (#89)
• Chinatown (#91)
• Royal Turf (#92)
• Capitol (#95)
• Mamma Mia (#96)
• McMulti (#97)
• Africa (#98)
• Dvonn (#99)

And here's the ones that I've tried out on the computer, and like, and thus should play the real thing:

• Acquire (#11)
• Taj Mahal (#23)
• Battleline (#29)
• Can't Stop (#54)
• Blokus (#60)

Though I'll hae to admit the slew of card games in there really don't enthuse me that much. The board games I'm pretty excited to try.

Finally, there are some that I just don't care to play:

• Time's Up (#17)
• Crokinole (#18)
• Roads & Boats (#37)
• Lowenherz (#44)
• Titan (#47)
• Ricochet Robot (#52)
• Diplomacy (#56)
• Hannibal: Rome v. Carthage (#59)
• Smarty Party (#62)
• War of the Ring (#77)
• Age of Renaissance (#83)
• Gipf (#88)
• Carabande (#94)

Among those I actually traded away Titan and Hannibal unplayed, and I've tried Ricochet Robot and Gipf online, to no excitement. The others are mostly too long or not my type of games, with the exception of Lowenherz, where I fail to understand the continued reverence when there's now a new edition of the game.

On the whole I've got a 53/100 rating, or 60/100 if you count computer plays.

Quickly, Robin, To The Blogosphere!

I recently realized that I can now type the phrase blogosphere and mean it in all seriousness.

Not so for the spoken word.

"You fiend! I'll never let you carry out your devious plan!" "Ah, but you had not counted on this, you fool!" "Oh no, not the blogosphere!"

It sounds like something out 1970s pulp, no question about it.

Amusingly a good book I recently read called Iron Sunrise also tried its best to use the terminology seriously, via the phrase "war blogger", a new-fangled next-generation journalist.

Look, there's the signpost up ahead! You are now entering ... The blogosphere

Whoever came up with the term "blogosphere" should be seriously kicked.

Bad etymologist!

No insect!