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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My BGHT ‘starter kit’ arrived from Redbubble. Almost balked on the tote bag but it fits games from the library perfectly!
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Love this quote from an oldie but a goodie episode from @2muchenthusiasm.bsky.social on Top 5 Board Games with Integrated Themes 😂
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
One of my favorite easter eggs in reading board game rulebooks is how the designer helps the players decide who goes first in unique and theme related ways. Rajas of the Ganges a fine example of what designers should always strive for, and not, “Decide who goes first.” Or, “Flip a coin.”
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Looking into a Board Game table for some time in the future and listening back to BGHT’s episode about it. @boardgamehottakes.bsky.social did you ever get the new felt for your Jasper table and @2muchenthusiasm.bsky.social did you ever end up getting or building your own table?
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Bezier Games @beziergames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
📽️ See how The Game Makers was made in this mini documentary, featuring the voice of one famous board game content creator ;) www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Oe...
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The Making of The Game Makers
YouTube video by Panda Game Manufacturing
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Love hearing Avalon Hill Games are putting people first 👏🏼
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
That’s a huge stack of cards
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
You know you got it bad for a game when you love it even when you lose.
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Grant’s Game Recs @grantsgamerecs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I’ve announced almost 50 tour dates for my Board Game Comedy Tour all over the US! www.grantsgamerecs.com/comedy-2
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18/05/2026
Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/
Comic. [Person 1 sitting at desk typing on laptop while Person 2 with shoulder-length hair stands behind.] PERSON 1: Aw man, speedrun.com removed my world record just because I listened to lateralus and ænima to get in the flow. PERSON 2: Oh, a copyright thing? PERSON 1: No, they don’t allow tool-assisted speedruns.
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
@boardgamehottakes.bsky.social OMG Congrats Guys!
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
@2muchenthusiasm.bsky.social congrats on the 300th 🎉 and loved your addition to the episode for the Fussfungle cocktail and of course Obsession! We gotta play that again on BGA sometime.
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We did this last year with the kids watching the stages of the caterpillars metamorphoses and eventually released them into our back yard. This year I was able to capture one emerging from its chrysalis on a timelapse this morning.
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
On the table tonight, Rap Godz. Such a great, fun, thematic, and well thought out game. (For the song in the video, don’t DMC me bro)
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
From April 10, 1988. Hard to believe FoxTrot is 38 years old today...
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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 09/04/2026
And it's live! youtu.be/0kNO4TzeUnU
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Investigating Board Game Miniatures
YouTube video by No Pun Included
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Testing out the new dice tower my FIL built for me.
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Everyone has been hyping this “AI” so I went on the internet and bought some, it finally arrived!
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/03/2026
Inflation Timeline xkcd.com/3223/
Comic: Timeline of Inflation. [Timeline of age of the universe (seconds) starting at 10^-40 with a block labeled “cosmic”, increasing to 10^20 with a narrow block labeled “regular”]
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/03/2026
Planets and Bright Stars xkcd.com/3219/
Comic. Planets and Bright Stars Identification Chart. [Bright glowing dots over black background with labels underneath: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Sirius, Procyon, Antares, Altair, Betelgeuse, Vega, Polaris]
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
www.patreon.com/posts/152267... Excited for the vlog and curious what games you may be bringing (if any) on your trip @boardgamehottakes.bsky.social & @2muchenthusiasm.bsky.social
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What's coming?! | Board Game Hot Takes
Get more from Board Game Hot Takes on Patreon
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Streetcar just released on BGA and after searching for some actual rulebooks I found this blurb for tile randomness. They don't make them like they used to!
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Proloe 🌙🧚‍♀️ Very Fairy Vtuber @proloe.gay · 28/02/2026
I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Ryan Dancey, a more than 30-year veteran of the tabletop gaming industry, has lost his COO job at publisher AEG a day after saying AI could generate game ideas as good as his company’s titles Tiny Towns and Cubitos: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
Head and shoulders image of a white haired man with a white goatee looking off into the distance to the right. Some buildings and a bit of water are visible behind him. Ryan Dancey, former COO of Alderac Entertainment Group.Text from a LinkedIn post which says:

Ryan Dancey Author
Chief Operating Officer at Alderac Entertainment Group

I have zero reason to believe that an AI couldn't "come up with Tiny Towns or Flip Seven or Cubitos". I can prompt any of several AIs RIGHT NOW and get ideas for games as good as those. The gaming industry doesn't exist because humans create otherwise unobtainable ideas. It exists because many many previous games exist, feed into the minds of designers, who produce new variants on those themes. People then apply risk capital against those ideas to see if there's a product market fit. Sometimes there is, and sometimes there is not. (In fact, much more often than not).

Extremely occasionally (twice in my lifetime: D&D and Magic: the Gathering) a human has produced an all new form of gaming entertainment. Those moments are so rare and incandescent that they echo across decades.

Game publishing isn't an industry of unique special ideas. It's an industry about execution, marketing, and attention to detail. All things AIs are great at.
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Inis Nemed finally delivered, complete with metal miniatures, coins, the Druid card stuck to the box, and the empty Legendary box as I expected. It is gorgeous. I can’t wait to play it with my wife soon!
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
@2muchenthusiasm.bsky.social The next time we're in Portland to make an Ikea run I can swing by and take Lords of Ragnarok off your hands, assuming it'll fit in the pickup (and doesn't displace whatever Ikea fare we're ferrying back to Bend 😂).
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
@silvylea.bsky.social this can’t be for real
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Helen | Vei4 demo in fall 2026 @helenicchi.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
Edit image button
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Matthew Dunstan @matthewdunstan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Fantastic video by Pam Walls on the increasing use of AI in board games, and the need (more than ever) to support artists, illustrators and graphic designers in the industry. youtu.be/Ci5pOjyJknI?...
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We need to talk about AI slop in board games
YouTube video by Pam Walls Game Design
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Picking up A Place for All My Books tonight at B&N and overheard two people: 1:“Have you introduced your boys to Wingspan yet?” 2:”Uhg! Nooo! I tried to teach them Azul and they couldn’t even understand THAT!” Boys of Bend, step up your game!
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Congrats @boardgamehottakes.bsky.social, @2muchenthusiasm.bsky.social, & @adambght.bsky.social!
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
How to ruin a dice chucking area control game for @2muchenthusiasm.bsky.social: store.foxtrot.com/collections/...
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Math Dice - "Jason Fox Mathy Dice" (Set of 5, 6-Sided Dice)
Nerdy dice! Five 6-sided math dice with simple problems on each face. Can replace any 6-sided die. Parents/Homeschool/Teachers: Use Mathy Dice as a learning tool at home or in the classroom! A great g...
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Orange Nebula launching the Art By Artists (art-by-artists.com) movement is a wonderful and much needed highlight of the human touch we all cherish in our lives. Love them for this!
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Art by Artists
Orange Nebula
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Wyrmspan and Apiary designer Connie Vogelmann has taken the plunge into full-time board game design following the huge success of her first two creations - and the destruction she says is being caused by Donald Trump in her former career as a grants law attorney: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
Head and upper body photo of a woman with long brown hair covering her shoulders. She wears blue-rimmed glasses and a teal-coloured v-necked t-shirt, and sits on concrete steps. Wyrmspan and Apiary board game designer Connie Vogelmann.Boards, cards and wooden components from the board game Wyrmspan on a light brown table. A hand is visible from the left of the image holding a single card, which features a cat-like dragon. Board game Wyrmspan by Connie Vogelmann.
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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I have been in Europe for almost a month and am now at DAU Barcelona for Devir's 25th anniversary. I have had the great good fortune to hang out with many board gamers and designers on this trip. And I have heard from them over and over that they are scared to visit the US right now.
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 10/11/2025
Moses (Charlton Heston) holding two stone tablets: IF YOU HAVE TO ASK WHOSE TURN IT IS / IT'S PROBABLY YOURS
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21/10/2025
Can you drive west to lengthen the sunset? What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8F7...
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Can you drive west to lengthen the sunset?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 03/10/2025
Measure Twice, Cut Once xkcd.com/3149/
Comic. “Measure [Twice], cut [Once]” -Carpenty Proverb. [Scatter plot with number of measurements on y axis and number of cuts on x axis. Points in a descending line on graph: surveyor, surgeon, good carpenter, careless carpenter, really bad carpenter, serial killer]
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I don’t think I’ve shouted board game titles randomly this early in the morning. 👏🏼 @silvylea.bsky.social hosting @boardgamehottakes.bsky.social Feud for their 5 Year Anniversary podcast episode. Thanks for sharing your time to make this milestone episode so very entertaining & Congrats gents! 🥳
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Pubmeeple asking the tough questions this morning. I need more coffee for this decision
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is the best way to announce a team’s starting schedule for the coming season I’ve ever seen 💙💚 youtu.be/ifvSa50l1hQ
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Seahawks 2025 Schedule Release | Unbox The Action
YouTube video by Seattle Seahawks
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
@andyhre.bsky.social rules question, if I in a previous month picked up a boarder state recruit in EoC, then traveling back through in another month the other recruit is still available; may I use the Accounting Wizard ability on the second recruit since I have the first one?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/03/2025
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A brilliant Banksy.
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A.Ham @alexanderhamilton.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
[Probably] my first recorded game with my grandmother, well before BGStats.
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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Important thread for understanding the next four years impact on the boardgame hobby in the USA.
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Johnny Chin @gamemarketwest.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Can you guess these board game publishers? We'll reveal one publisher and their games every day until we cover them all. You can vote for what games you'd like to be included in our raffle.
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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Board games on NPR's @the1a.org! Great job @downtowntbrown.bsky.social @slausondesigns.bsky.social
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The new American board game craze
Many tabletop gamers are clearing their calendars and pulling up chairs.
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