Category Archives: Best Of

Best New (to me!) Games of 2024

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Mark Jackson

Look, I play a lot of games. In 2024, that included right around 160 new games… well, new to me games. That’s pretty typical – it was approximately 145 in 2023 and 150 in 2022. (I’m privileged and blessed to … Continue reading →

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Mark’s Top 100 Games: The 2024 Edition

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Mark Jackson

Every couple of years (or so) I blog through my top 50 or top 100 games over on my personal blog, akapastorguy. In 2022, I shared that list with our faithful readers here at the OG… and I’m back to do … Continue reading →

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My 20 Favorite Trick-Taking Games (Article by Chris Wray)

Posted on March 16, 2024 by Chris Wray

I last published a list of my top 20 trick-taking games back in 2021. There have been several additions to the list, in large part due to the recent explosion in interest in the mechanic. Without further ado, here is … Continue reading →

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Best New (to me!) Games of 2023

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Mark Jackson

For the last twelve years, I’ve intermittently published my Best New (to me!) Games list… and, when I missed a year or two, I added the missing lists to the most recent post. However, before we get properly started with … Continue reading →

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My top 166 games of all time…

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Joe Huber

Every two years, I’ve created a list of my favorite games – once the games I rated an 8 or higher, now the games I enjoy enough to have in my collection.  This is the tenth such list I’ve created.  … Continue reading →

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Tricks and Trumps #1: The Classics Before 1965

Posted on February 27, 2023 by Chris Wray

This is a relaunch of our long-lost trick-taking series, Tricks & Trumps. You can find the series introduction posted just before this article; I’d recommend reading it first, since it lists the methodology we used to select the games discussed … Continue reading →

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