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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

8/31/25 Scout Set playing game with interesting mechanics of picking up a played card in a set thus reducing its strength. Also cool that you can flip the cards so there’s more than one value per card giving extra choice. It’s a great palette cleanser after a crunchy game! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

8/30/25 Only Murders In The Building: The Game Really fun light IP cooperative game. Take turns moving Oliver, Mabel, and Charles through The Arconia to collect clues. Solve the murder before the accomplice finds 6 clues. Link clues to check in the building if you solved it! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

8/29/25 SETI I finally got to play SETI! I love space themed games and movies! It is a crunchy game but manageable. Good replayability. I liked the moving solar system mechanic and the upgrades. We discovered both alien races and had a blast playing! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

8/28/25 Rummikub Perfect camping game! Tried the 6 player variant and didn’t like it easier to get skunked on opening set requirements. Play 30 points to open the game. After that, you can play on other sets on the board. Sets are: a run of 3 or 3 of a kind numbers (different colors.) #boardgamw

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

8/27/25 The Guild of Merchant Explorers Interesting piece lying game. Cards flipped let players know what type of terrain they can put explorers on. Collect treasure and erect towers but make sure to fill a region and lay a village because all explorers leave the board at era’s end. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

8/26/25 Let’s Go! To Japan Interesting card drafting game. Pink and/or blue cards get placed on your week itinerary. End game will “travel” & happen left to right. Color switches mean transportation change. Symbols on cards gain resources that may earn VP. Happiness is a meter to watch! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

8/25/25 Ice Cool When you’ve reached the last day of the boardgame convention and are feeling silly, you play a silly flicking game. Penguins try to collect their color fish and the pursuer tries to tag the penguins. It’s a kids’ game but sometimes it’s fun to just play something goofy! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

8/24/25 Paris: La Cité De La Lumiére Draft base tiles to prep for laying personal shaped tiles later. Try to put your tiles near lights and in one big continuous group. Also you can draft postcards that have special powers or pieces. Fun competition for space between players. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

8/23/25 Qwixx Fun quick roll and write. Active player rolls the dice & must score one. Colors go from left to right either ascending or descending. Inactive players MAY use a die. Gets super tricky as you go down the line. 5 marked numbers on a row can close out a die so it’s out of use! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

8/22/25 Alea Iacta Est Fun dice game where you compete to draft elements of the game. Provinces, Patricians, and Senators. Place dice on buildings but not all dice placed will earn something. Later placements must beat the current values. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

8/21/25 Propolis Fun worker placement and set collection game. Place your bees on cards to earn those resources. Use the resources to buy cards. Some cards give a permanent resource and/or victory points. Interesting majority presence rule for discarding placement cards for workers. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

8/20/25 Azul Duel 2 player Azul with different mechanics than the original. Draft tiles, dome tile, or bonus chip. Sun and moon sections of the factory add interesting drafting element. There’s also a big factory that houses the 1st player token. Different enough to be interesting #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

8/19/25 Raising Robots Very fun engine builder game. Decide what phases you’d like to perform & bonuses help you do ones you didn’t pick too if other players did. Energy chosen determines the strength of action. Use resources to build and upgrade robots and powers. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

8/18/25 QE An interesting bidding game where you represent a country bidding on licenses. Dollar amounts are made up! Just like real life, haha! Just don’t be the person who spent the most or you automatically lose, everything else is fair game! You can bet 0 once per round too for pts. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

8/17/25 Lunar Trick Interesting trick taking game based on the phases of the moon. Trump range changes based on card play. You only score if you get 1 trick (2 pts), 3 tricks (1 pt), or 5 tricks (2 pts). Game ends when someone scores 5 points. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

8/16/25 Caution Signs Fun party game. Get two cards, a person and a trait. Draw them on the caution sign but you only have 30 seconds! No guesser tries to match up the two cards to each drawing. Pretty tough because you don’t get much time to draw! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

8/15/25 Prototype Played my friend’s game he’s developing. I have permission to post but I won’t say much to protect his ideas (my choice not his). Fun game! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

8/14/25 Beasts Beautiful card game with interesting Beast cards that limit where you can place certain suits. Work together to use all the cards in the deck. 3 piles for a 3 digit number. Must increase the 3 digit number to play. There’s a wipe mechanic and some skip tokens. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

8/13/25 Copenhagen Fun roll & write with a Tetris twist. Roll dice to draw a shape with the color result of the dice # of squares. 2&3 square shapes are endless but 4&5 can only be played once by the group. Not active players X off tracks to earn abilities and extra die colors squares. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

8/12/25 Splendor The original! My favorite “gateway game”. Accessible to non-gamers and fun for gamers too! Collect gems to buy cards that give free gem currency for the rest of the game. What’s not to like?! Great lead into engine builders for kids too! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

8/11/25 Secret Identity Fun party game where you are randomly assigned a person or character and have to give 3 pictorial clues about who you are. The clue can be an affirmative or opposite/not trait. Everyone guesses & you earn points on correct guesses. House ruled for more fun (below) #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Cat break! #CatsofBlueSky The Pie family we are fostering: Pumpkin (mom), Pecan, and Apple (bigger white nose fur)

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

8/10/25 Flower Fields Fun tile drafting and laying game. Interesting drafting mechanic. Use bees to draft a piece farther “down the line” or take the free one. Collect bees or small 2x1 tiles also. Only your largest of each color grouping scores. Tile size x number of bees placed. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

8/9/25 Amalfi Renaissance Really fun worker placement! Cool mechanic of using your ships for worker placement and moving them for resources. Invite real people from the age to utilize their in game or end game bonuses. Compete for common goals. Fun engine building and cool pieces! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

8/8/25 Point Galaxy 3rd game in the “Point” series. Build galaxies with planets, moons, &asteroids. Numbers must ascend/descend with no repeats. Suns add bonuses for color or letters. Earn a rocket with a bonus on it when 5 symbols are present. Easy to learn/tough to maximize/fun to play! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

8/7/25 Dinner in Paris Really fun set collection & piece laying game. Collect ingredient cards to open your restaurant. Build terraces to gain bonuses. Increase your buy power to lay more terraces. Collect goals like formation of terraces to earn more points. Compete for common goals too. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

8/6/25 Life of the Amazonia Fun resource and tile laying game. Interesting scoring track related to resource collection. Fun animal pieces. Place animals in appropriate habitats. Each animal has different scoring conditions. Lots of paths to victory! Plus there’s otters!!! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

8/5/25 Wingspan Modern day classic! Love the game mechanics and real life birds and info! Overplayed it at first but now it’s back on my favorites list! I just play it more intermittently, haha! Play those birds, get those cards/food, & lay those eggs! Beware the “tuck card engine”! 😆 #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

8/4/25 Pocket Parks Excellent real life game of our National Parks! Real pictures with geo coordinates so you can visit the actual locations. Fun set collecting game. Match icons that have real meaning like “most visited park” or “man made”. Great for camping! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

8/3/25 Dragon Farkle Chaotic dice game with a super fun theme. Roll dice to collect armies. When you are ready, fight the dragon! Character role cards allow bonuses or breaking of rules. Try to gather magic items to help in your quest to slay the dragon. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

8/2/25 Maki Master I think this is a remake of Wasabi. Fill recipes by aligning seated tiles on the board in order. Special cards can break normal placement and filling rules. Fun pallet cleanser with cute base game pieces and the upgraded version has even better pieces. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

8/1/25 Herbaceous Fun quick set collection game. Collect herbs into your garden and the community garden in order to eventually fill your 4 pots. Each pot gets filled once so timing matters to maximize points. Each pot requires different set rules like pairs, unique, or identical herbs. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

7/31/25 Come Sail Away! Fun worker placement with unique placement rules. Select a card to gain those workers and place orthogonally in order printed on the card into your cruise ship. Each room has color requirements to earn bonuses or you have to take a penalty if they don’t match. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I’ve been locked out of my account for a couple weeks. If anything weird was coming from this account, it wasn’t me. I’m back now! Going to play catch up after the convention I’m at is over happy gaming! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

7/30/25 Foundations of Rome Deluxe version of tile laying game. Buy plot rights and decide which buildings to build: income, victory points in game, and end game points. Or take a turn getting income. Played over three eras until the plot cards are all purchased. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

7/29/25 The Game: Quick & Easy As the title says, a quick and easier version of The Game. Cooperative game to use all the cards in the deck. Each player has two cards and must play one but can play both. One stack goes up and one stack goes down. Can you use every card in the deck? #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

7/28/25 AI Space Puzzle Cooperative game where one person plays the AI and the rest try to decode clues to position astronauts, symbols, and dice on a 4 x 4 card grid of space. AI can only give clues using tokens allowed for the scenario. Set number of rounds to either win or lose. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

7/27/25 Pandemic: Hot Zone North America Simplified version of Pandemic. Cooperative game trying to prevent disease outbreaks and find cures. Fewer roles and steps to cure. Nice for a quick game or someone new to the franchise. Also travels well since it’s smaller. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

7/26/25 Spirit Island Cooperative game where you are spirits defending the island from invaders. Native peoples assist in the battle. Use your powers wisely or the land will become blighted and you may lose your precious home! Tough to win while learning but worth the challenge! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

7/25/25 Pack the Essentials Fun light tile laying game where you bid for turn order to draft. Go first-get just the tile, go last-get the tile and goodies. How badly do you want that one specific tile? Score groups of color and public goals. Fun tile shapes & flip for cats= bonus points! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Dog break! #boardgame #dogsofbluesky “Are you sure you want to play that card, dad?”

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Update to my personal goal: turns out life events with my family and my interest in replaying games has made posting unique games daily pretty tough. (Should have numbered them 1-365 instead of dates!) I’ll keep on in batches as I can with the goal moved to 365 unique games in a year. 👍🏼👍🏼 #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

7/24/25 Skyjo Light game that plays up to 8 people! Start with tableaux of 12 cards. Take a card & replace one of yours or flip a face down. If a column has 3 identical numbers it can be discarded. Try to get the lowest score. 1st to go out must be lowest score or you double your points! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

7/23/25 Gap Quick fun palette cleanser. Play a card from your had to the display. Collect identical numbers or one number before and after it. Score largest color pile positive and smallest color pile negative. Harder than it sounds! Number of colors used increases with more players. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

7/22/25 Panda Panda Fun quick game of getting a full hand of one of the allowed sets. Take a card then discard a card until someone can go out. The twist: if you discard an “A”, players have to give a card from their hand away! May help, may hurt, depends on what you’re going for! #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

7/21/25 Sentinels of the Universe Co-op fighting game with no IP rights so you get hilarious “generic” references. Players try to defeat a Boss in an unkind Environment. Work together to use your powers to weaken them without triggering special abilities. Difficultly level is adjustable. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

7/20/25 World Wonders Similar to Castles of Mad King Ludwig but I like this game better. Buy road or building tiles to meet construction rules for Wonders. Turn based & money it tight so there’s a strategy to what you take & when. Cool pieces, tile laying rules, and scoring make this 👍🏼. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

7/19/25 Coloretto: Amazonas Fun new version of Coloretto. Still a quick set collection game like the original but with interesting player interaction added. Play a card on your tableaux or give a card to another player that they must play or discard it and something they already have. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

7/18/25 Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra A nice edition if you like Azul but have played the original version a ton. Similar play with factories and taking pieces but instead you have panels to fill that flip then remove. Grouping your completed panels scores higher points. #boardgame

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April @aprillirpa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

7/17/25 Rules A silly rule changing game. Try to catch your opponents in missing one of the ever changing tasks/rules of the game. At least 4 conditions are present at a time that range from things you have to say or do to things you can’t do like “read the rules cards”! #boardgame

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